Doubt and Faith
Doubt and Faith Doubt is a fact of life, we must admit. No-one who ever lived did not own doubt At some stage of hez life. And it seems fit That this should be; for we only find out The truth of things when […]
Interesting Possibilities
Interesting Possibilities (After The Mask: W.B. Yeats) […]
Optimist?
Optimist? You cannot fool me, Death, with your façade Of mystic power and stern finality. Others you may, perhaps, through grief delude For, in distraction, reason’s clarity Can be confused. Of this I am convinced; When your sly fingers steal my latest breath I’ll briefly sleep and then, refreshed, […]
Never Despair
Never Despair (Sir Winston Churchill K.G. d. 25th January 1965) The Spirit of our Age Is now no more. He has dispensed with our mortality And joined again that God from Whom he came. What words can tell Those qualities […]
Under the Ice
Under the Ice Reputedly,Antarcticais rich in oils And minerals of every kind; sufficient spoils To whet our appetites in raw materials For industries. Constantly rise political Disputes over the ownership of such rare store Under its miles-deep, age-protected ceiling-floor. Yet, far more precious than these minerals are those […]
Proportionality
Proportionality (In flagrante delicto) Tie them up – so! – As Leonardo Posed his ‘Proportionate Man’: That at my leisure I may then pleasure My retributory plan. Strip off their clothes To starkly expose Intimate attributions, So each one can see, […]
Erinaceus
Erineceus. Secretive Echinoderm. Pulex-porter. Oviraptor. Hail-ward. Anti-alopecian Wood-urchin. Nocturnal earth-miner. Sea-less mine. Gastronome Of gastropoda, Insecta, cadavera. Sun-symbol fire-friend. Armed hero of peace. Inoffensive sword-ball. Fierce ophidia-fighter. Contractile contradiction. Hedgehog. [N.B. These are all epithets for, or supposed attributes of, the […]
Future Hope
Future Hope Ancestral country of my dearest kin I come, Unprejudiced, with liberal intent; Peace I bear in my hands. My heart aches at your misery and shock. My eyes Weep for your desolate despair. I sense your moidered hurt. My death upon your bloodied land […]