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Katabatic Kuchina
Katabatic Kuchina This raw wind roars and buffets me with rough And scornful blows from unseen vantage-points. Exposed, out on a Western hill, I have Nowhere to hide from these insulting knocks, But must endure until I can achieve Some place of shelter from […]
Winter Bridal
Winter Bridal This slim, hoar-frosted Beech, in lacy traceries so bright Now proudly stands a stiff-silked Bride upon her Wedding Day. Behind her pose the darkly-congregated Pines, arranged Like morning-suited Witnesses. In wayward ranks around […]
Beyond Time's Spiral Wall
Beyond Time’s Spiral Wall As far as Hubble’s sharp, unblinking eyes can see – Through plasmic time and space towards eternity – Unending crowds of stars and galaxies appear, (With their attendant cloudy nebulæ), as clear As if they had ignited in […]
Under the Ice
Under the Ice Reputedly, Antarctica is rich in oils And minerals of every kind; sufficient spoils To whet our appetites in raw materials For industries. Constantly rise political Disputes over the ownership of such rare store Under its miles-deep, […]
Venus-Plants
Venus-Plants i. (Dionaea Muscipula) A Venus-flytrap is a vampire-plant – A carnivore – designed so cunningly It seems as innocently generous In free, luxuriant profligacy As any nectar-yielding source could be. How openly it offers-up itself; Its leaves – spread […]
Natural Memories
Natural Memories Natural Memories i. Too often, in my life, I found myself Exiled fromEngland– Country of my birth And great sustainer of my dreams; Home of my culture And rare cricket’s poetry – And recollected, in my loneliness, Those absent beauties which had pleasured me […]
Sunlit Waterfalls
Sunlit Waterfalls “Here lies one whose name was writ in water”. [Epitaph: tomb of John Keats atRome]. Though water seems an unsubstantial thing Having no shape that may be called its own, (Unlike some monument of carven stone), […]
Larksong in War
Larksong in War Larksong in War Hear how expressively small skylarks wring From shell-shocked throats incendiary songs Which burn into crushed consciences the pains Of conflict and its needless suffering. Self-mortaring into smoked skies, the larks Explode in tonic shrapnels which pierce through Hate-deafened ears to lodge, deep in hurt hearts, […]
Lyric Skylark
Lyric Skylark Lyric Skylark Often I’ve stood on some wide upland swell And heard a lyric skylark, higher still, Spiral abroad its fantastic refrains Of liquid descants as it poured pure notes Into the whorls of my […]
Nature's Gossips
Nature’s Gossips Along the margins of some forest paths Fresh, purling rivulets run noisily. They are wild Nature’s gossips and will tell The seasons of the year in tones that brook No arguments from sceptic minds. They’ll say Where foxes’ dens and badgers’ […]