The Light and the Fire
The Light and the Fire Pious Zarathustra – priest of Sacred Light – Preaching of his visions, (angel-brought at night), That God was best worshipped in the private heart Of each person’s conscience. Everyone is part Of this world’s existence and must challenge sin In the […]
Friendship
Friendship If you would like to chat, (Of this thing or of that), In trustful confidence: Remember your best friends. With others or alone, (In person or on phone, By e-mail or by post), There’s nothing to be lost. In good times and in […]
Harvest Time
Harvest Time “O for ten years, that I may overwhelm Myself in poesy; so may I do the deed That my own self has to itself decreed”. […]
Performance Poetry
Performance Poetry (Adapted from: A Theory for Art) Real poetry lives in the written word More durably than in the spoken phrase Which sounds superb, but makes no sense when seen. Rich quality of thought, clearly expressed In telling composition, has more worth Than oratorical charades, (performed Persuasively by […]
One Decade More?
One Decade More? Time moves inexorably on; today’s Prime Minister is younger than myself! And now, as rodent-toothed arthritis gnaws Bones and stiff joints, or palpitations shake The regularity of cardiac Efficiency, my darkling eyes can see No end of projects meriting my care. Such […]
Emma Madeline Schluep
Emma Madeline Schluep (b. 27 January 2009) I welcome you, young Emma Madeline, Into this world which is quite different From that protective place whence you have come […]
Cinquain (Equus)
Cinquain (Equus) A far Small form moves fast. Straining my eyes to see What it could be, I recognise A horse.
Dear Nightingale
Dear Nightingale (for Heidi) Dear Nightingale!. You know how circumstance (The sudden loss of one long-loved, Or brute injustice piled by cruel chance Upon […]
Sacrificial Obsession
Sacrificial Obsession Quite casual it was. I said: ‘Goodbye’; You answered with a silent nod. Then I Departed. At your strongly-termed insistence, (After three decades of our shared existence; Such complex years of courtship, marriage, gain, Children and happiness; of loss and pain, Love, […]
Uniform and Grey?
Uniform and Grey? i. I do not think it fair to say My art is uniform and grey. (Who would agree to have defined, By adjectives quite so unkind, The outcome of a life’s vocation Expressing the imagination?). ii. My poems’ themes range over all – […]