Time and Art [2]
Time and Art [2] [From A Theory for Art (iix)] Time is life’s last illusion, and shall be Until we understand what it must mean. Art teaches us that all truths must refract, […]
Mohammed Fayed
Mohammed Fayed (After Diana & Dodi) A man obsessed, A heart distressed, A mind depressed: A soul oppressed.
The Angel of History
The Angel of History Hindsight’s my forte, since backwards I fly In time in space but cannot turn my head To see the future. All those past events And characters – their causes and effects – That influenced the world since history Began […]
Contrarious Love
Contrarious Love Sometimes good and sometimes bad, Sometimes joyful, sometimes sad, Sometimes blessing, sometimes curse, Sometimes better, sometimes worse; Love’s all these and that is why It’s a disturbing agency.
Liquid Stone
Liquid Stone Erupting, like some potent lava-stream From magma-chambers fractured by the stress Of Earth’s evolving core, new thoughts […]
Annus Mirabilis
Annus Mirabilis (1984) Some years ago, my heart afloat on dreams, I sailed to bright Coolmela in the West, Where clouds of […]
Evolution
Evolution All things are atoms in a cosmic flux. Though almost insignificant alone, By their collective influence they form The sum of universal interchange In a closed physical environment. It is their interactions, each with each, That generate the […]
Astronauts
Astronauts Riding flaming columns Into unknown space; Monitoring instruments Juddered by displaced Huge atmospheric pressures Out of their control; Juggling with computer-jargon; Hoping unseen defects Won’t cancel their bold try And write a fractured epitaph Upon the smoking sky. […]
Xerxes in Greece
Xerxes in Greece (October 480 BC) Xerxes, sat on his throne high overSalamis, Stared down in disbelief to see his Persian fleet, (More than two thousand sail), trapped and destroyed within Those narrow straits where they were lured by wily Greeks, Whose mere four hundred triremes beat the waves to foam And […]