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Friendship

     Friendship        If you would like to chat, (Of this thing or of that), In trustful confidence: Remember your best friends.        With others or alone, (In person or on phone, By e-mail or by post), There’s nothing to be lost.        In good times and in […]

The Quest

                         The Quest        In vain I sailed on various seas, Fruitlessly trudged misleading tracks Through steaming forests and across      Soul-scouring deserts’ arid screes.        Poor heir of Cook, Livingstone, bold Burton, I long traversed the world In […]

The Judgement of Paris

         The Judgement of Paris                How could he know?.                That on his choice        Hung, epical, the futures of           His family, his natalTroy And its then fortunate inhabitants?.   That Agamemnon with his Grecian horde      Would alter history because      Æneas, who escaped their wrath, Would […]

We Remember

                 We Remember   Our tiny isle is closely wrapped      In the broad mantle of the sea; Our knotted shores are overlapped      By billows heaving endlessly. Sometimes, when huge storm-breakers, capped      With foaming curling crests, rear high And menacing about us – chapped      By […]

Other Worlds

     Other Worlds         In the vicinity Of Vega and of Fomalhaut      There are said to be Other planetary systems.      If so, should we still doubt That evolution’s history,      (Guided by Nature’s wisdom And human ingenuity), Will offer our posterity      New places of security –      Fresh paradisalEdens Or […]

Illusions?

Illusions?           Some nights, from out the dark, I seem to see         Dim flicker-lights of stars behind thin mists Which veil them from my focussed sight. Is this because         I think they’re there, and so permit my brain         To turn my thought into apparent fact?. Or is peripheral night-vision more acute?. […]

The Old Woman

          The Old Woman.   Frail as winter twigs she goes;        As tremblant, too!. Pale eyes peer blankly down thin nose;        Shuffles each shoe. Age holds her in its palsied thrall,        Infirm and slow; Fitful faint memories are all        She now can know!. Impatient for her dragging time […]

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 […]

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