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The hover flythat's just demonstratedthat it's one of the Creation's greatestand smallest, most compact miracles of lawfulimagination (imagine..

London, six o'clock in June, two-o-o-five:These streets were built in nineteen-five or thereaboutsin unimaginative grid, on London clay and previous..

The prick of tears around the eye when reading poetryis reassuring - that despite what happenedthis morning, yesterday, in childhood,in your last..

As the evening coolsand I go out to water the front gardenwatched by the guyswho lounge outside the house oppositeas it opens for its illegal evening..

The lifeon Marsmeets mainly inthe barsthey're foundby Underground,that is, the Metrothey're mainlyheteroso you may meet yourMr Rightor maybe justa..

No, don’t open that door. Don’t try.It’s locked anyway. Or should be. Some people sayit’s worse than seeing their first dead bodyhalf dead half..

Now what did I come upstairs for?Of course I haven’t forgotten your name,young lady, it’s just that I can’t remember itWhy am I going upstairs?I only..

Two sisters separated soon after birthone dark-haired, one fair, both beautiful, with shining eyesrun towards each other, eagerly, yet shyly..

The Buddha (is that one or multiple, theologically?)sits at his total ease in our back gardensuch as it isin his plastic only partially..

Poets seek in poems, a truth that's yet to be:to catch those glories half-formed in the mind,those tantalising visions which we seefor fleeting..

Gathering rosebuds with my rake;the wooden tines scrapingover the gravel pathbringing a token of orderto the autumn of a life;rosebuds, nipped at the..

At last I’m old enoughold enough not to beembarrassed whenit happensit can be whensome athlete standsand mouths the words oftheir national anthemas..

The boy walks past the window;you can see he'sgot something clearly in his mind;walks firmly on both feet as ifhe walked on grass;his carriage..

Pithy, precise,wry, wise,flinty, real,democratic,truethat's how it'sbeen definedyou'll question thatof courseas you shouldI'll leave you to ithow..

Always there are wizards.They don’t hide themselves.That would be wrong for them.They don’t advertise themselves.That would be wrong for them.They..

I am overwhelmedby the abundancein my poverty;the riches that I findin knowing that I own nothingI am dazzledat the uglinessin my mind;seeingthe..

‘Cinderella’ (I’m using this pseudonymto protect her identity, now she’sex-hot, ex-famous) , while sweeping, dusting,fire-lighting, all that deprived..

it was the sound ofthe daffodilsgrowingthat wokethe ear of their earon the sun’s birthdayand the lilacs of the scentsaid it’s time to wake upso we..

me, the bow,you, the cello;me, mc squared;does it follow,sexual activityrelates to relativity?my energy,your mass;can we equatesuch love,my lass?

Round 1580 - so some scholars write -the finest poets of England sought accordon what fine form of verse might most delight,and render fullest homage..

'Whatever that you think you lack - give that! ' -this saying, heard, lodged in my mind a space;like seed that seems inert - yet, not inert;its..

Sometimes a single misprinted wordbrings a daylong smile to my cynical face:as today, when the next month's political campaignwas said 'to have..

When that strange stirring to a poem comes -half-heard, half-formed, some seed deep in the mind -the heart lights up, so eager to explorethe unknown..

Praise be to Him,our One Creatorwho built into Adamthe Great Vibrato

OK, you don’t have to believe this;but it’s worth thinking about.Here’s the theory – it’s as beautifullysimple, and as subtle in its implications,as..