Platonic Sublimation
Platonic Sublimation Since we cannot live together As a lover with a lover, Let us live, for one another, As soul-sister and blood-brother; Separate, but not apart: Joined forever at the heart
New Wine
New Wine I drink the modern poets down, Absorb their words – their colours, strengths And clarities, their tastes and styles – As topers wine. Often I muse Upon them as I fall asleep, Hungover with the overplus Of such variety; there are So many vintages but, too, Too little time to sample […]
The Reason Why
The Reason Why (There Was No Better Way Than This) Why was I born? That’s an odd question to a man About to die!. But since you ask, I’ll answer you. The […]
People in Love
People in Love The force of human love works in the strangest ways To draw from characters the best and worst of traits. People in love are often self-deceived For, when […]
Other Worlds
Other Worlds In the vicinity Of Vega and of Fomalhaut There are said to be Other planetary systems. If so, should we still doubt That evolution’s history, (Guided by Nature’s wisdom And human ingenuity), Will offer our posterity New places of security – Fresh paradisalEdens Or […]
No More Star-lit Nights
No More Star-lit Nights Those stars which sparkled once in lovers’ eyes No longer shine through light-polluted skies. Along each crowded route which brightly prowls Our cities’ ever-widening expanses The predatory traffic flares and growls Incessantly beneath false luminances Devouring, in smoked breath, the feeble last Few remnants of starred night-dark’s loveliness: Making […]
Katabatic Kuchina
Katabatic Kuchina This raw wind roars and buffets me with rough And scornful blows from unseen vantage-points. Exposed, out on a Western hill, I have Nowhere to hide from these insulting knocks, But must endure until I can achieve Some place of shelter from […]
Winter Bridal
Winter Bridal This slim, hoar-frosted Beech, in lacy traceries so bright Now proudly stands a stiff-silked Bride upon her Wedding Day. Behind her pose the darkly-congregated Pines, arranged Like morning-suited Witnesses. In wayward ranks around […]
Naked Thoughts
Naked Thoughts Nakedly I go to bed Every solitary night To experience sensations (Which my drowsing, dream-shot head Films for me in imaged light), Of that past day’s situations And their vivid evocations. Barely are my limbs composed In the comfort of their rest Unconfined […]
Beyond Time's Spiral Wall
Beyond Time’s Spiral Wall As far as Hubble’s sharp, unblinking eyes can see – Through plasmic time and space towards eternity – Unending crowds of stars and galaxies appear, (With their attendant cloudy nebulæ), as clear As if they had ignited in […]