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We Remember
We Remember Our tiny isle is closely wrapped In the broad mantle of the sea; Our knotted shores are overlapped By billows heaving endlessly. Sometimes, when huge storm-breakers, capped With foaming curling crests, rear high And menacing about us – chapped By […]
Mysterious Sea
Mysterious Sea Concealing waters – rolling dark and deep In cloudy grandeur round tidelines and clifts – Opaque as midnight over brumous strands; What mysteries and wonders lie asleep Beneath your blanket, which forever lifts And falls above their darkling […]
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. […]
The Space Between
The Space Between We’d marvel should it prove some mind devised Planets, bright stars and complex galaxies: Placing them in relationships so fine That they, (from ancient times through to this day), Stayed recognisable upon the skies As astrological phenomena Balanced amidst unstable cosmic flux. Nor […]
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 […]
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 […]
Avoca
Avoca We made a pilgrimage to see the place Which has been, always, deep within her mind, My darling’s home and haven of repose. There, at the ‘Meeting of the Waters’, we Stood together and drew into our […]
Moon-Ship
Moon-Ship As lovely as those stately craft which once would slide Across vast, then-uncharted seas, so you can glide Upon the star-flecked unprospected firmament. This very night I watched you as you gently spent An age-long, […]
Other Worlds
Other Worlds In the vicinity Of Vega and of Fomalhaut There are said to be Other planetary systems. If so, should we still doubt That evolution’s history, (Guided by Nature’s wisdom And human ingenuity), Will offer our posterity New places of security – Fresh paradisalEdens Or […]
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 […]