How easy is melancholy to revive Just now by it’s absence I recalled finding the yellow archangel On a lane in a wood in Berkshire when I was young Which too is facile to evince The sense of being old that comes with age and fatigue I spend time on the edge of tears I …
Category archives: poetry
Tall orders
We are overblown thinkers Properly moved by logic Those of us that think in this way Using thought to regulate a sorry route Following white lines catching cats eyes Refueled along the way A road just to get some where Somehow oblivious to suffering Despite everything that has happened It is a soul less task …
St Antimo 1999
1. The tomb is always empty It cannot be otherwise I am here Such lamentation there will be when I rise. 2. Always we approach the White Hart And always he retreats So with stealth we approach And still he flees. To touch him He must die 3. Great silence …
day dreaming
humans around a fire and a human from the future arrives they capture and kill the visitor later, become the visitor, they kill themselves throwing them on the flames is what i day dreamed
wood blewits
I’ve captured some wood blewits freed from the earth. The year ended here but I’ve yet to finish with them. The issue is not one of faith but how to avoid it. Temptation is heaven born, all the more delightful for that. So, eyes open till the end, violet like leaves on the forest …
uneven writing
More uneven writing Painting thrown against the wind Unsettle the scene
colombine
dense moorish monkish bothering around the path month of may believe
under water trees
hot day under water trees lichens mat the rocks and wood sorrel springs
casualty of love
We’ve been listening, again and again and again to songs by Jessie J. Following us from place to place, various children singing along at full volume or less or more depending on whether that track was the one they wanted or no. This evening CR asked what a casualty of love was (title of a …
coriolanus
It befits me not to prate on Coriolanus, one so ennobled of spirit that he doth transform me beyond my citizenship by the simple mention of his name. The Great Leader! What piffle. The man at the insistence of the people was, the others to whom he needs must turn in foreign places banished, such …