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Stonehenge
Stonehenge (After Arbar Low by Doris Corti) Pictured, the Stones seem hugely redolent Of some portentous, cosmic consciousness. First met, their insignificance appals A mind anticipating grandeur’s awe. Grouped, age-runed, in the shallow open bowl Of their […]
G. M. Hopkins
G. M. Hopkins. (1844 – 1889) Ah!. Secret singer in your self-wrought cage Of mystical constraints, who only sang When nobody could hear your instressed song. Your heart broke young to know of beauty moiled, Soiled […]
Golden Age
Golden Age On Summer lands the golden sun Its golden warmth distributes; Whilst golden children’s golden fun, (With golden laughter, golden games And golden innocence), acclaims That golden season’s tributes. Golden gardens, and golden fields Of golden grain or forage, Their golden harvest […]
Ode for John Keats
Ode for John Keats i. I heard your Nightingale today, broadcast Over the radio, and felt again That sympathy With your romantic mood Of melancholic loss That always floods my senses through The exquisite emotions roused […]
Cosmic Reflection
Cosmic Reflection (Adapted from a 1986 speech given by Charles, Prince of Wales). I feel that, deep within each human soul, There is a deep, subconscious Reflection – As from the surface of a sunlit lake In unspoilt countryside – Of the natural harmony and […]
Dreams?
Dreams? (Adapted from The Warrant) Are we mere shadows of imagined dreams, (As unsubstantial as our thoughts), Who fade with them Into the darkness which surrounds Each life with vague forgetfulness, With thoughtless disregard, Apparent randomness, purposelessness, Frustrated hopes, ambitions unfulfilled And insignificance?. So many withered dreams, like Autumn leaves, […]
New Wine
New Wine I drink the modern poets down, Absorb their words – their colours, strengths And clarities, their tastes and styles – As topers wine. Often I muse Upon them as I fall asleep, Hungover with the overplus Of such variety; there are So many vintages but, too, Too little time to sample […]
People in Love
People in Love The force of human love works in the strangest ways To draw from characters the best and worst of traits. People in love are often self-deceived For, when […]
No More Star-lit Nights
No More Star-lit Nights Those stars which sparkled once in lovers’ eyes No longer shine through light-polluted skies. Along each crowded route which brightly prowls Our cities’ ever-widening expanses The predatory traffic flares and growls Incessantly beneath false luminances Devouring, in smoked breath, the feeble last Few remnants of starred night-dark’s loveliness: Making […]
Natural Memories
Natural Memories Natural Memories i. Too often, in my life, I found myself Exiled fromEngland– Country of my birth And great sustainer of my dreams; Home of my culture And rare cricket’s poetry – And recollected, in my loneliness, Those absent beauties which had pleasured me […]