Father!
Father! “Who is this stranger – solemn, pensive, mute – Who haunts our house with vacantly vague looks; Whose mind seems more engaged with dreams than facts, Oblivious of problems; distantly Preoccupied with abstruse reveries; Muttering incantations to himself whilst Counting numbers on his chin, with fingers […]
Holidays
Holidays A few short hours of homeliness – Snatched minutes of sheer bliss – Before returning to the drudge Of working under constant stress. How we love each carefree moment Of release before we trudge, […]
In Your Experience
In Your Experience (for Heidi) Knowing that you’ve delivered life, After nine months’ creative wait, Should be conceived love incarnate In your experience. Feeling your baby nuzzle close Within your arms towards your breast Should be, amongst life’s joys, the best In your experience. […]
Seduction
Seduction Surely the charming phrase, the lavish gift, The brilliant display, are mere attires Of courting-rituals, designed for swift Submission to lust’s transient desires?. Do not the birds and beasts, to gratify Instinctive urges, flatter each their sort […]
Autumn Evening
Autumn Evening The watercolours of an Autumn evening wash The sky, above the darkling Western hills, with stains Of intermingled pink, pale gold, green-violet. Against this lambent backdrop stand the distant trees Poised in stark, uncompromising poses, more clear In outline, now, than at the hazy […]
The Wreck of the Pelican
The Wreck of the Pelican One day the Pelican FromBristolharbour ran, Bound for the shores of tropicAfrica. Aboard her there were ten, (Four women and six men), Who journeyed with her; each a passenger. The weather, then, was calm; The breeze a salt-tanged balm Wafting the grimy […]
A Poet's Magic Carpet
A Poet’s Magic Carpet? ( From: A Theory for Art [xix] ) The weft and warp of poetry are wove From sounds, alliteration, rhythmic beat, Harmony, pattern, feeling; these strong threads Are artfully combined by shuttle-thoughts, Flying incessantly between, and bound Into a comprehensive whole by knots […]
Relativity
Relativity Relativity As streetlamps like small thin dawns revealing Through first pink flush of insect-fluttered glow Their little worlds’ faint warm illuminings, Brightening the night with local radiance And spreading heat and light around themselves: Just so throughout the pathless universe there roll […]
The Lover's Complaint
The Lover’s Complaint The Lover’s Complaint Love is a caring, sharing sentiment!. I do not want some smooth-wrought words writ down To camouflage your lack of faith in me. I want to feel the actions of your love, The doing, (not the telling!), […]
Global Warfare
Global Warfare Global Warfare Day’s light battalions withdraw towards the West Surrendering each field and hill, reluctantly, Beneath the heavy-cavalry attacks which mark The front line of another battle in their war, (Which has no ending in recorded history), Against oppressive, ultimate obscurity. Descending […]