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Autumn Evening
Autumn Evening The watercolours of an Autumn evening wash The sky, above the darkling Western hills, with stains Of intermingled pink, pale gold, green-violet. Against this lambent backdrop stand the distant trees Poised in stark, uncompromising poses, more clear In outline, now, than at the hazy […]
Relativity
Relativity Relativity As streetlamps like small thin dawns revealing Through first pink flush of insect-fluttered glow Their little worlds’ faint warm illuminings, Brightening the night with local radiance And spreading heat and light around themselves: Just so throughout the pathless universe there roll […]
Global Warfare
Global Warfare Global Warfare Day’s light battalions withdraw towards the West Surrendering each field and hill, reluctantly, Beneath the heavy-cavalry attacks which mark The front line of another battle in their war, (Which has no ending in recorded history), Against oppressive, ultimate obscurity. Descending […]
Elemental Influences
Elemental Influences (After: J.M.W. Turner) Five harbours seen from seawards; ship’s-eye views Of Scarborough andWhitbyin the North, Sheerness, Ramsgate andPortsmouthin the South. The ports themselves are incidental here; The artist’s interests seem unconcerned With what these places represent in terms Of shelter, […]
Ancient Symbolry
Ancient Symbolry When their new baby comes there will be mirth As, with melodious anthems they will raise Loud celebrations and loud shouts of praise For the succession which it then confirms Upon their family; all care’s concerns Paled by their […]
Morning
Morning (Adapted from: Natural Memories, stanza iv) Often I have smelled The clinging, oily redolence Of clammy, tangy tall pines; Rare floral fragrances inhaled And breathed the odours which arose Whan morning mists from shadowed lakes Ascended to […]
Embellishing the Facts
Embellishing the Facts (Xenography) From Hami (China), so newspapers say, A mighty whirlwind – like invisible Great hand! – snatched thirteen children from their school And, with a strength quite irresistible, Transported them […]
The Heron
The Heron Near quiet river-margins, or canals’ Slow, silent banks the white-front heron stands, Grey-backed and tree-stock still, (in feathered cape Black-bordered as a death-note), hunched thigh-deep In mirror-waters patient, calm and poised For instant action: death’s executor For fish and […]
Glendalough
Glendalough Amid such savage grandeur, (lying hard beneath Stern, steeping hangars which reflect upon the cool And placid surface of these peat-dark lakes in pale Translucent greens and rusty browns), close-bounded by Waterfalls and streams pouring […]
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 […]