Time and Art (1)
Time and Art [1] i. “Since they both are things apart, What has Time to do with Art?”, Is the sceptic’s scornful cry. ii. […]
Music and Poetry
Music and Poetry (A ‘Neapolitan’ Poem) Rich streams of suasive sound arouse in open hearts Emotions which can overmaster reasoned thoughts. Skilled music stirs our minds with flowing tides Which wash our senses’ and our souls’ […]
Larksong in War
Larksong in War Larksong in War Hear how expressively small skylarks wring From shell-shocked throats incendiary songs Which burn into crushed consciences the pains Of conflict and its needless suffering. Self-mortaring into smoked skies, the larks Explode in tonic shrapnels which pierce through Hate-deafened ears to lodge, deep in hurt hearts, […]
Lyric Skylark
Lyric Skylark Lyric Skylark Often I’ve stood on some wide upland swell And heard a lyric skylark, higher still, Spiral abroad its fantastic refrains Of liquid descants as it poured pure notes Into the whorls of my […]
Lochmatt
Lochmatt (for Ingrid) I’ve travelled through so many lands And stayed in splendid places, Yet rarely have I ever found A residence whose graces – Warm welcome, simple comforts And environs […]
Poetry and Bathostry
Poetry and Bathostry Poetry and Bathostry are antitheses. That is momentous, descriptive, evocative, Memorable perfection, controlled and gracious thought, Which draws a comprehensible picture of life In metrical designs of vivid artistry. Shapeless, undisciplined, prosaic, vague, This is Arhythmic, ungrammatical and trivial, Unpolished, unimaginative, […]
Reason and Imagination
Reason and Imagination (Non Sequitur?) I like sound reason. (Just imagine it!). Cool logic, commonsense and practical Utility, dealing in factual Objective phenomena!. Ag’in’ it Set subjective, anarchistic feeling Leaping from lairs in dark subconsciousness, (Where untamed […]
Xanthippe
Xanthippe When he could speak, the mild philosopher observed: “You seem to take much pleasure telling me, forever, My faults and foibles. I have never claimed to be A flawless paragon; not even in those days – […]
Nature's Gossips
Nature’s Gossips Along the margins of some forest paths Fresh, purling rivulets run noisily. They are wild Nature’s gossips and will tell The seasons of the year in tones that brook No arguments from sceptic minds. They’ll say Where foxes’ dens and badgers’ […]
Pain
Pain I’ve a pain in my heart, But I do not know if Its ache is a part Of my death or my life. Is it pain which denotes That my heart is diseased? Or a pain which reports My emotions’ […]