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Iphigenia at Aulis

Iphigenia at Aulis  (After Euripides)   They stripped her stark, then threw her body bare      Backwards upon the altar of their fear;      But as the sacred knife was sharply drawn Across her throat, she changed — into a fawn!.

Global Reputation

                                    Global Reputation        (23rd April: Shakespeare’s birth and death date)        Shakespeare — the verse and voice of English at its best;           Clear, confident and strong enough to bear […]

Promethean Fires

                                 Promethean Fires                                  (Roumania: 1989)        Vlad Dracula’s pained Princedom was for years impaled On ancient fundamental tines — vengeance and hate […]

Synoptic Biography

                                           Synoptic Biography                ( Nicolae and Elena Ceaucescou: d.25/12/1989)                               They rose; they spoke; […]

Performances

                               Performances        If it were these that really mattered most — The personal performance and the voice — If it were these that powered poetry, Then Shakespeare long would have been lost to us With all past poets […]

Tender is the Night

                                       Tender is the Night                     Tender is the night           That heals our hurts and eases our concerns By giving shelter from mind-threatening […]

Near Tiryns

                                Near Tiryns                       (Agamemnon’s Death)                  Near Tiryns           Proud triremes Thrashed inshore waves to foam     […]

Agape

                                Agape           (For: G.J. and E.J. Whitehorn)             “You were such love, personified, for me             When I was most in need of charity”     […]

My Destiny

                                 My Destiny        I shall not always be The slave of circumstance.      I have a promised destiny That guides me to the ranks      Of those whose names prevail Across the years of fame.   […]

Had I A Voice

                               Had I a Voice   Had I a voice whose power could expand      The boundaries of your imaginings;           That could express the glories of this grand      Existence; boast those beauties that […]

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