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Autumnal
Autumnal I feel Autumnal hints Colour the air: Chamæleonic tints Pale-hued and spare. Bird-clouds traverse the rain- Washed, wind-blown skies As Summer heats decline To Winter’s ice. Through failing mortal powers I, too, migrate Across those unknown hours Which are my fate. […]
Fourteen Eighty Five
Fourteen Eighty Five – [I] (Monday 22nd August) This was the Year of the Red and the White. Red blood and white flesh but the signs to tell How Roses red and white had come to blow In bloody conflict in bleak Redmoors marsh; With red ambitions, white ideals involved […]
Denominative Devices
Denominative Devices You cannot live forever, no matter how you scheme; The whole of your endeavour fades like a labile dream. But habits of your living Etch images in time, With history’s page receiving Each graven paradigm. What you create […]
Aroona
Aroona […]
Immoderation
Immoderation The frantic thrusts of lust’s long loin Engender ill-considered fruits. If we took thought to preconceive The outcome of precipitance We might become more temperate And chaste in what we do inside The darkened chambers of our minds Behind the curtained eyes of haste. Passion is honourable when It […]
Dangerous Minds
Dangerous Minds Dangerous Minds ‘…the worst Are full of passionate intensity’. [W.B. Yeats: The Second Coming] Zealots are dangerous. Their minds are closed About their sole enthusiastic cause: Their bright eyes blind to contra-evidence, Their keen […]
Islanders
Islanders Islanders O the islanders may love the sea When in its halcyon mood, Since it’s in their blood, for ill or good, As none knows better than they Their heart-enchanting sea. Or the islanders may dread the sea […]
Bath
Bath Bath (After a photograph) Here is a structured question-mark. The gold Great Crescent’s elegant façade sweeps round To meet straitBrock Street’s subfusc straight that guides Towards a perfect ornate roundel […]