Imagery
Imagery I draw in words what other sketch With pencils, and my draughtsmanship Must be as accurate as theirs To realise my images. I paint in phrases details which […]
Chaos
Chaos (After Chaos, by James Gleik, which asserts that chaos is not random but minutely structured and calculable) Chaos, (some say), is not what it’s been deemed For generations immemorial. Chaos has structure, (so […]
Homes for Illusions
Homes for Illusions How strangely specious our minds can be In their responses to reality. To hide from their own sensitivities To facts, they build complex delusions And shelter in such weird confusions As might protect their vulnerabilities; Although glass walls of subjectivity Can’t hide […]
Orphan
Orphan Have you known the loneliness Of a child forlorn?. Have you felt the hopelessness Of a child, (rough-torn From the careful love of mother And the shelter of a father), Friendlessly withdrawn?. Some have […]
Autumnal
Autumnal I feel Autumnal hints Colour the air: Chamæleonic tints Pale-hued and spare. Bird-clouds traverse the rain- Washed, wind-blown skies As Summer heats decline To Winter’s ice. Through failing mortal powers I, too, migrate Across those unknown hours Which are my fate. […]
Fourteen Eighty Five
Fourteen Eighty Five – [I] (Monday 22nd August) This was the Year of the Red and the White. Red blood and white flesh but the signs to tell How Roses red and white had come to blow In bloody conflict in bleak Redmoors marsh; With red ambitions, white ideals involved […]
Dragon
Dragon Snake-neck extended like an armoured lance; Croc-toothed flame-jaws agape; spike-tongue out-thrust; Black smoke-trails from broad nostrils streaming; barb- Tipped, saw-fretted writhe-tail all alash; huge As a whale: a Dragon is watching me […]
Denominative Devices
Denominative Devices You cannot live forever, no matter how you scheme; The whole of your endeavour fades like a labile dream. But habits of your living Etch images in time, With history’s page receiving Each graven paradigm. What you create […]
Aroona
Aroona […]