Free Will?
Free Will? Are human minds decisively supreme Or merely agents, not determinants, Of what was, is, or shall yet come to be?. Does each have absolute autonomy, Or is it just one element within Some vast, intergalactical design By what believers […]
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare Unrivalled master of fine metaphors. Your works strike lightnings through our clouded brains Revealing, to our startled senses, truths We could not not apprehend before out minds Perceived the brilliance of your verbal flares. The forceful thunder of your intellect Reverberates against the sounding-boards […]
The Heron
The Heron Near quiet river-margins, or canals’ Slow, silent banks the white-front heron stands, Grey-backed and tree-stock still, (in feathered cape Black-bordered as a death-note), hunched thigh-deep In mirror-waters patient, calm and poised For instant action: death’s executor For fish and […]
In Due Good Time
In Due Good Time This life of ours has much of grief and woe: How it will end we none of us can know; And that is just as well for us, since we Have quite enough of present misery!. […]
Morty
Morty (Margaret Bennett née Mortlock) (b.22/9/1931; d. 1/2/2009) Morty, our darling ‘Queen of Hearts’, we mourn. Broken-hearted, you left us suddenly; And we who loved you are ourselves reduced Also to broken-heartedness. Throughout Your long and dedicated life you were So […]
Glendalough
Glendalough Amid such savage grandeur, (lying hard beneath Stern, steeping hangars which reflect upon the cool And placid surface of these peat-dark lakes in pale Translucent greens and rusty browns), close-bounded by Waterfalls and streams pouring […]
Pearls
Pearls (For Ana) All beautiful girls Should wear lovely pearls Because, though their own charms are granted, Pearls’ delicate glow Allows them to show Their beauty to its best advantage.
Juggernaut
Juggernaut Lovely the sunlit dawns; beautiful, too, Such dusks: their pastels paint the air with light And brush soft colours onto clouds in tones Which, through my consciousness, induce delight. But lorry-driving is no pleasure-jaunt Uncomplicated by frustrating ills Of mental […]
Zelotypiac
Zelotypiac Just licence me And I’ll licentious be; Then shall we know, Together, how To pleasure mutually. There is no shame, Nor can be any blame, When licenced love Goes on to prove The promise of its claim. When both agree […]
Intuitions
Intuitions By the grey in my thinning hair I have knowledge that I could share With those who desire To learn what the fire Of inspirate wisdom may bare. By the learning lodged in my brain, (From studying matters germane), I hold the hid […]