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Family Substitutes
Family Substitutes i. Zealous, as guardian, am I Of Fred, (the cat), Sandy and Gemma, (Labradors), Caprice, (the goat); They form my small menagerie And are my welcome company. ii. Fred is a tom-cat, black but white Across his chest, With green-gold-amber eyes and […]
Creative Brilliance
Creative Brilliance (A synthesis of Denominative Devices and Brilliance) You cannot live forever, no matter what your schemes, So all your life’s endeavours may fade like labile dreams; But habits […]
Artists and Audiences
Artists and Audiences (From: A Theory for Art, Stanza xiv) Artists need audiences. Though their works Originate in personal concerns And private intuitions, (though composed In necessary solitude for thoughts’ And concentration’s sakes), they have to tell All who will heed them what is in […]
Byron
Byron Byron! Passionate pilgrim of the old Levant and – more Importantly – the secret inner-world that lives concealed Within the minds of those exiled from all they cherish most. You were the […]
Hero Her Love
Hero – Her Love But when Heroical Leander swam across Swift Hellespont to claim the love Of Hero for his own and prove Faith, in its sacred cause, He’d sworn Was stoical: To make her wife What then?. And consummate, in bliss, […]
Enigmatic Time
Enigmatic Time. (Adapted from: A Theory for Art) Does time move in spirals? I cannot say With scientific nicety; but sense Suggests it to my reason as I note How frequently event and circumstance Recur, almost coincidentally, In pages of recorded history And personal experience alike. […]
Herakles
Herakles (Twilight of the Gods) Atlas, who on his brawny shoulders bore The heavens of sublime mythology, Waited impatiently for Herakles To take his burden, as the gods decreed. Those gods looked down from their celestial height To […]
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare Unrivalled master of fine metaphors. Your works strike lightnings through our clouded brains Revealing, to our startled senses, truths We could not not apprehend before out minds Perceived the brilliance of your verbal flares. The forceful thunder of your intellect Reverberates against the sounding-boards […]
The Heron
The Heron Near quiet river-margins, or canals’ Slow, silent banks the white-front heron stands, Grey-backed and tree-stock still, (in feathered cape Black-bordered as a death-note), hunched thigh-deep In mirror-waters patient, calm and poised For instant action: death’s executor For fish and […]
Juggernaut
Juggernaut Lovely the sunlit dawns; beautiful, too, Such dusks: their pastels paint the air with light And brush soft colours onto clouds in tones Which, through my consciousness, induce delight. But lorry-driving is no pleasure-jaunt Uncomplicated by frustrating ills Of mental […]