Father and Son
Father and Son (for Colin) So, here I am – your father, son — Progenitor and heir, it’s true – My young soul in a body aged By time’s experiential force; A stranger in […]
Inheritors
Inheritors ‘Où sont les fleurs d’hier? Toutes mortes’ (Anon) Where are the flowers of yesterday?. All dead. And where the beauties they displayed?. Dull dust. Can’t loveliness escape time’s fatal tread Or void its squalid blight […]
John Keats
John Keats (On re-reading Keats’s To Autumn) [Alternative version of: On Re-reading Keats] Reading your works again, (my friend long dead), A pile of plangent words heaps in my head Till I’m replete with feelings strange and strong, My senses harvested by scything song. John Keats!. Autumn’s expressive […]
On Re-Reading Keats
On Re-Reading Keats Re-reading you, (my friend, though long since dead), I am suffused with feelings strange and strong; A flood – a whirl of words – pours through my head, My captured heart bursts into happy song!. […]
Swallows
Swallows ‘gathering swallows’… (John Keats: To Autumn) Could I now fly with them across wide seas – To lands where Winter’s dearths bring no alarms In climates lush with tropic luxuries; Or near Egyptian Sphinx inspire sweet balms Borne on warm zephyrs from rich isles of spice – I’ld consecrate […]
Like You?
Like You? For many years he sought her To make his dreams come true; So, if he’d had a daughter, She would have been like you, And all the love he brought her Would be a father’s due, […]
Consensuality
Consensuality (for Heidi and Pierre) [ To give oneself completely is to cede control To someone else – whom we entrust implicitly With its safe keeping in love’s tender liberty – Of self-possession’s pride in body, mind and soul. ] […]
Reciprocating Love
Reciprocating Love (for Heidi and Pierre) We love each other with our minds And all the senses we possess, Vowing we’ll always try to find Ways to sustain shared happiness. We both reciprocate our love In every small particular As each of us competes to prove […]
The Temple of Aeb
The Temple of Aeb i. Welcome to you, most learned Leondo!. You’ve travelled far in answer to my call And am honoured by your presence here, For your repute in […]
Language and Art
Language and Art (From: A Theory for Art) If language is employed without due care Or understanding of its latencies, It easily misleads the sense of those Who are unwary of its subtleties – Accreted over centuries – that cause Inaccurate interpretations or Complete […]