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Snowflakes
Snowflakes The minute structure of each snowflake is so fine, The intricate simplicity of its design So exquisitely perfect in itself, Divine Intelligence, some think, must be its manufactury!. For you could spend a lengthy lifetime looking through […]
Orion
Orion When glorious Orion strides the night — Red Betelgeus sat on his shoulder high, Bright Rigel at his knee, club raised to strike His quarry with its shining potency; His […]
A Spell
A Spell (For the release of a Giant) Amanatha!. Zaranthula!. I call upon the powers of the sky!. (Come thunder, lightning, storm-bred wind!). […]
Lost
Lost (A Satire) Lost…lost…lost… In the sands of Poetry, Not knowing which way to turn, Confused, I go. I am amazed, Distressed to see, Everywhere, prose praised As poetry Whilst lyric lines — in beauty dressed — […]
Chestnut Tree
Chestnut Tree The white Spring-candles of this broad-leaved tree Have burned already into Summer sprays Of waxen, stippled buds green, cool and hard As nuts which — in the ripeness of a warm And fruitful Autumn […]
Misunderstandings
Misunderstandings Larch trees, (I did not know this fact before!), Change colour in the Autumn since they are Deciduous conifers. It’s very strange How something I had thought for years — that all Pines are true evergreens — should be disproved By […]
Northern Star
Northern Star How insignificant you seem, Pale Northern Star!. And yet the constellations pace Their patterned gait Around your chosen dwelling-place As though they deem You Monarch of […]
Leviathan
Leviathan Who can read the mind of a whale; Or who interpret its strange voice Which tunes its throbbing notes to suit The deep sea-currents’ telegraph And reach the furthest cetan ear?. Who can learn the ways of […]
Autumn
Autumn This dying-season’s palette lightly paints Its varied colours on the waving trees, Reminding us that Autumn’s breezes soon Will yield to Winter’s storming gales before Spring’s stirring freshets may again prelude The pleasures of warm Summer’s mellow days. Already […]