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The Light and the Fire
The Light and the Fire Pious Zarathustra – priest of Sacred Light – Preaching of his visions, (angel-brought at night), That God was best worshipped in the private heart Of each person’s conscience. Everyone is part Of this world’s existence and must challenge sin In the […]
Friendship
Friendship If you would like to chat, (Of this thing or of that), In trustful confidence: Remember your best friends. With others or alone, (In person or on phone, By e-mail or by post), There’s nothing to be lost. In good times and in […]
Harvest Time
Harvest Time “O for ten years, that I may overwhelm Myself in poesy; so may I do the deed That my own self has to itself decreed”. […]
One Decade More?
One Decade More? Time moves inexorably on; today’s Prime Minister is younger than myself! And now, as rodent-toothed arthritis gnaws Bones and stiff joints, or palpitations shake The regularity of cardiac Efficiency, my darkling eyes can see No end of projects meriting my care. Such […]
Emma Madeline Schluep
Emma Madeline Schluep (b. 27 January 2009) I welcome you, young Emma Madeline, Into this world which is quite different From that protective place whence you have come […]
Cinquain (Equus)
Cinquain (Equus) A far Small form moves fast. Straining my eyes to see What it could be, I recognise A horse.
Dear Nightingale
Dear Nightingale (for Heidi) Dear Nightingale!. You know how circumstance (The sudden loss of one long-loved, Or brute injustice piled by cruel chance Upon […]
Uniform and Grey?
Uniform and Grey? i. I do not think it fair to say My art is uniform and grey. (Who would agree to have defined, By adjectives quite so unkind, The outcome of a life’s vocation Expressing the imagination?). ii. My poems’ themes range over all – […]
Mohammed Fayed
Mohammed Fayed (After Diana & Dodi) A man obsessed, A heart distressed, A mind depressed: A soul oppressed.
The Angel of History
The Angel of History Hindsight’s my forte, since backwards I fly In time in space but cannot turn my head To see the future. All those past events And characters – their causes and effects – That influenced the world since history Began […]