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Sacrificial Obsession
Sacrificial Obsession Quite casual it was. I said: ‘Goodbye’; You answered with a silent nod. Then I Departed. At your strongly-termed insistence, (After three decades of our shared existence; Such complex years of courtship, marriage, gain, Children and happiness; of loss and pain, Love, […]
Time and Art [2]
Time and Art [2] [From A Theory for Art (iix)] Time is life’s last illusion, and shall be Until we understand what it must mean. Art teaches us that all truths must refract, […]
Liquid Stone
Liquid Stone Erupting, like some potent lava-stream From magma-chambers fractured by the stress Of Earth’s evolving core, new thoughts […]
Annus Mirabilis
Annus Mirabilis (1984) Some years ago, my heart afloat on dreams, I sailed to bright Coolmela in the West, Where clouds of […]
Astronauts
Astronauts Riding flaming columns Into unknown space; Monitoring instruments Juddered by displaced Huge atmospheric pressures Out of their control; Juggling with computer-jargon; Hoping unseen defects Won’t cancel their bold try And write a fractured epitaph Upon the smoking sky. […]
The Quest
The Quest In vain I sailed on various seas, Fruitlessly trudged misleading tracks Through steaming forests and across Soul-scouring deserts’ arid screes. Poor heir of Cook, Livingstone, bold Burton, I long traversed the world In […]
Blind Maze
Blind Maze It’s sometimes said that life is like a maze Of one-way doors through which we pass each time We start some phase in our experience And we must choose, or blindly guess, the prime Way forward and […]