Creative Brilliance
Creative Brilliance (A synthesis of Denominative Devices and Brilliance) You cannot live forever, no matter what your schemes, So all your life’s endeavours may fade like labile dreams; But habits […]
Brilliance
Brilliance It matters not how clever or brilliant your brain, Your genius will never receive its due acclaim Until you shew – by functions That transform thoughts to facts – Some tangible constructions Your brilliance enacts. Real […]
Artists and Audiences
Artists and Audiences (From: A Theory for Art, Stanza xiv) Artists need audiences. Though their works Originate in personal concerns And private intuitions, (though composed In necessary solitude for thoughts’ And concentration’s sakes), they have to tell All who will heed them what is in […]
Byron
Byron Byron! Passionate pilgrim of the old Levant and – more Importantly – the secret inner-world that lives concealed Within the minds of those exiled from all they cherish most. You were the […]
Hero Her Love
Hero – Her Love But when Heroical Leander swam across Swift Hellespont to claim the love Of Hero for his own and prove Faith, in its sacred cause, He’d sworn Was stoical: To make her wife What then?. And consummate, in bliss, […]
Divine Delight
Divine Delight (Diana Finds Endymion on Latmos) Heedless of her path, she slowly stepped Pensively amongst the night-dark leaves, (Drowning in her sea-deep thoughts), Whilst pain-tinged sighs her hurt heart heaved. As she divinely languished, It seemed the mournful trees had caught The dismalness […]
Skuba
Skuba (For Edmund) The languid level of the lake Began to bubble and to boil As from its depths emerged the shape Of Skuba whose scaled skin, like oil, Gleamed green and gold. Her bright blue eyes, As […]
Enigmatic Time
Enigmatic Time. (Adapted from: A Theory for Art) Does time move in spirals? I cannot say With scientific nicety; but sense Suggests it to my reason as I note How frequently event and circumstance Recur, almost coincidentally, In pages of recorded history And personal experience alike. […]
In Turbulent Times
In Turbulent Times “Behold, I make all things new”. (Revelations: Ch.2,v.5) We live, these days, in times of turbulence. The weather-patterns are unusual, Political reforms confound us all […]
Herakles
Herakles (Twilight of the Gods) Atlas, who on his brawny shoulders bore The heavens of sublime mythology, Waited impatiently for Herakles To take his burden, as the gods decreed. Those gods looked down from their celestial height To […]