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Contrarious Love
Contrarious Love Sometimes good and sometimes bad, Sometimes joyful, sometimes sad, Sometimes blessing, sometimes curse, Sometimes better, sometimes worse; Love’s all these and that is why It’s a disturbing agency.
Evolution
Evolution All things are atoms in a cosmic flux. Though almost insignificant alone, By their collective influence they form The sum of universal interchange In a closed physical environment. It is their interactions, each with each, That generate the […]
Proportionality
Proportionality (In flagrante delicto) Tie them up – so! – As Leonardo Posed his ‘Proportionate Man’: That at my leisure I may then pleasure My retributory plan. Strip off their clothes To starkly expose Intimate attributions, So each one can see, […]
Erinaceus
Erineceus. Secretive Echinoderm. Pulex-porter. Oviraptor. Hail-ward. Anti-alopecian Wood-urchin. Nocturnal earth-miner. Sea-less mine. Gastronome Of gastropoda, Insecta, cadavera. Sun-symbol fire-friend. Armed hero of peace. Inoffensive sword-ball. Fierce ophidia-fighter. Contractile contradiction. Hedgehog. [N.B. These are all epithets for, or supposed attributes of, the […]
Amélie
Amélie (At 10 Weeks) How beautiful your tiny features are, Fine-boned and delicate as porcelain; As soft as silken threads your […]
Ma Vie
Ma Vie Je lis, je réflechis, j’écris Presque chaque jour et nuit; Car prose et poésie si chère Font maintenant ma carrière. My Life I read, consider and then write Almost every day and night; For prose and precious poetry […]
Pope John-Paul II
Pope John-Paul II (1920-2005) (Adapted from: Neknus, Canto LIII) The human spirit will accept defeat By nothing in creation which it knows. Battered it may be; brought down to its knees By the gross blows of circumstantial fate; Yet still undaunted […]
Meteors
Meteors Some early deaths, (like meteors that die), Leave vacant spaces in the universe Where once their beauties charmed the viewer’s eye. No kinds of consolation can reverse The situation and bring back to light Their loveliness. […]
Abplanalpine Songs
Abplanalpine Songs (For Heidi) Let the rare rainbow of your singing arc Above ambition’s turbulent cascades, As from Lochmatt’s green Abplanalpine slopes Of forested seclusion your songs flow To fill lush valleys with […]
Platonic Sublimation
Platonic Sublimation Since we cannot live together As a lover with a lover, Let us live, for one another, As soul-sister and blood-brother; Separate, but not apart: Joined forever at the heart