Myrna's Dance
Myrna’s Dance [Adapted from Neknus, Canto XXX] They drink to pained excess who know Not when their bellies will be filled again With anything more tasteful than poor scraps Stolen, or begged, from wealthy merchants who Fill the markets daily with their goods. They drink until the wine and […]
The Dancers
The Dancers [Adapted from Neknus, Canto XXIV] And so The dancers enter to display their thrilling art. In they come, these splendid charmers, (Twenty males and females all With nature’s graces unadorned), Each more finely formed than anyone Assembled there had ever seen, Or […]
Pandora's Box
Pandora’s Box Our love is like Pandora’s Box, So I implore you not to pry Too closely. Nor to force those locks Which hold its secret from each eye. Let’s guard it with devoted care To keep its mystery from harm, In true belief that we can share […]
Forest Rides
Forest Rides Spurred by anxieties my frantic thoughts Gallop unchecked full tilt through forest rides. Borne boldly down vague-shadowed avenues Of indeterminance my questing mind Quick-scans for some intransience amongst Dense-tangled unimportances that blur With Nature’s scarce-observed felicities As in my headlong haste they hurtle past […]
Childhood Revisited
Childhood Revisited Of life’s best pleasures I can think of none Comparable to that which came to me When sharing the developmental growth To adulthood of my own children’s lives. It was not possible in my career Always to […]
The Quest
The Quest In vain I sailed on various seas, Fruitlessly trudged misleading tracks Through steaming forests and across Soul-scouring deserts’ arid screes. Poor heir of Cook, Livingstone, bold Burton, I long traversed the world In […]
Blind Maze
Blind Maze It’s sometimes said that life is like a maze Of one-way doors through which we pass each time We start some phase in our experience And we must choose, or blindly guess, the prime Way forward and […]
Œdipus
Œdipus Introduction: There are several versions of the Œdipus myth – Homer put one in the Iliad, Aeschylus [Seven Against Thebes] […]