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Waiting for the train, listeningto the blackbird singingacross the railway lineI whistled a musical game with itof call and response,variations..

Often, I awaken to myself,as from this earthly body lifted up;and feel external to all other things,myself the single knower past all thought;I..

tears and fears,run away;run as fast asfears run high,run as fast astears run dry,yesterdayis now today;nor should sorrowthink tomorrow;tears and..

Today the soft rain isnot falling, rather blessing,as gentle as mercy,making the airmore airy, if that can be,nature’s air conditioning let’s crudely..

You knew her better than I – you’dlooked after her when her splendideccentricity which the English do so wellwent beyond the bounds that others set…I..

Me, I prefer a long talewith a happy ending,said the pythonglancing at theReaders' Digeston return fromthe restroom(for Jerry,who likesshort poems)

Out of the cageyou had not known you were inwith a freedombeyond what you thought it to beinto the spaciousnesswhich was boundlessand a joywhich..

I sing of punctuation....'What? ', you say,'I've never heard a sonnet on that theme! ';and thus this modest goddess, clothed in grace,performs her..

Here in the garden at the break of day,the air’s been washed with holy water overnight,and it’s so peaceful, as if nature at this hourreplays..

A fine morning and the side-streets emptythen turning the corner,in the middle of the roada pigeon - grey-mauve, plump and feather-perfect,one wing..

Can a leopardchange its spots?'In a way...'said Darwin,tied in knots...Then woulda leopardspot its changes?'Evolutionmight arrange this...'

Iconic.It’s one of those media buzz-wordscoined out of some personal conceitlike ‘magisterial’ some years backor ‘superbabe’ or ‘uberdiva’to indicate..

She so loved Himwas so beloved of Himthat He spoke to her and saidmy belovedask of Me whatsoever you wishand she saidwithout hesitationmy Lord,fill..

Allé thyngés speke the name of godde.Trete allé thynge as lichsome lissom maydethatte fore thu yearne to daunce as cheke to chekeas for to sense the..

Chess is more than dancing queens,hockey's even played on ice;a little difficulty toogives poetry an extra spice.

In the very earliest time,when knowledge was loveand truth was goodnessand words had power,people and animalslived as brother and sister,parent and..

In fifty years, when Jerusalem's gone,flattened by an Arab atomic bomb,to whom will be the spoils, in this tear-stained land,lifeless, radio-active..

Film meets the poetic image,and in some things never fails – as whenout there alone in the prairie -the steppes, the tundra,snowfields, desert -past..

There's a first timefor everythingsaid Godgiving the Wordto start it allthere's a first timefor everythingI've just readyour poemsand I feel so..

They’re trained to do the work of lovedispassionatelyas if they are the most loving friendsthat you could ever haveand, miraculously,there to help..

…for that’s the way that poetry goes…and goes…mere pose, tapped out as prose…Yes, most of us, these days, undisciplined,approach the temple of pure..

This starry dawn - the wise men yet afar -the shepherds are abed, their night's task done.Is Mary tired? Or, as one untouched?All birth's a miracle;..

It was so easy being a British childin the 1930s:everything was – or so it seems to memory’sselective mind - so ordered:how old was I, when I..

See this table top. Smooth, waxedto a point, a soup stain which perhapsa finger nail will lift. Beneath the surface,atoms, molecules, tension and..

she said you ask mewhat the poem's aboutand I'm saying it's aboutwhatever it's aboutto you that's a poemand there's another poemwhich is what it's..