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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 […]

These Things I Know

              These Things I Know        I know that grief is depressing, Fear is distressing, death dispossessing;      I know that peace is retiring, Hope is aspiring and faith inspiring;                These things I know.        I know that life is for living, Love is for giving and […]

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. […]

Life in Death

                          Life in Death         What horrors have those worms that feed on death    For me?. None, though my crawling flesh dissolves From bones more fragile than the brittlest shell. For, when Death’s cloying hand smothers my breath    And stops my mind’s still unfulfilled resolves       Within this brain’s grey mould, my […]

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 […]

Inquisitor

                               Inquisitor        That starry Question-mark displayed upon the dark Probes deeply my self-doubts with chill persistency. How did we come to be?. What is the point of life?. Is there a caring God?. Or Hell?. OrParadise?.     […]

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 […]

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