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Their wives were not too keen about it all:beyond the call of duty, so it seemed;for, if they read the heavens' portents so well,what need of proof..

This evening, I thought of youafter, how long, forty years:you, sitting across the oak tablein the old forge's kitchen, that John had madefrom..

O come sweet sleep, and close my eyes with verse!with drowsy metre, meet a deeper sleep;to sleep, to dream, I never am averse -to slumber numbed by..

A ‘School of..’ painting, it’s sometimes on display,sometimes in the ‘Secondary Collection’; rather likeits subject, it’s subject to..

The pink geraniumshanging in their plastic terracotta bowltwist gently to and fro in the slight breezeas if they’re quietly impatientfor my..

Ladies and Gentlemen,this is my first poetry readingand I’m very nervousand nearly cancelled tonightbut I spoke about this toa friend who’s a..

We could not have counted on it,those days when we were children young in yearsbut rich with a thousand hopesjostling, pushed aside, forgotten in a..

Inside the bodyis a little place.you could say thatthis is like a lotusfor it floats on the surface of the waters of lifeand opens its petals to the..

We drove downtown to see our neighbours;none of them were home,all that was underfoot was lost,cathexis arrived early in a golden coach;seems we..

Silver-bronze…that was the beauty of your voice,deep and rich and flexible,as you sat yourself down on the benchin the waiting-room on Kensington..

‘Let me not to the marriage of true mindsadmit impediment’ – and let me sayfirst of all, that I’m all for that…but Dr Freud asked me if I’d call you..

Do you ever get fed upof playing musicthat sounds like music?asked Miles Davisso I'm asking youdo you ever get fed upof writing poetrythat sounds..

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;..

'Who was listeningwhen I apologisedfor my life? 'I jotted that downin a moment of regretover the wasted thingsof life, that is, my life..and thought..

These wild, rough autumn daysas cooling Northern hemisphereshudders towards its equinoxwith gales and rain and blown-off leaves,all the elements..

An Arab, a Christian and a Jewwalked into the same Gents loo...came out feeling much the same...you get my point? Shit's in the name..

downtownin a street of tired neonbetween a yawning whorehouseand a bar whose regularscan no longer remember its namethere's a small door with the..

Oh it’s there, alrightand very much all rightalthough ‘there’ is not at all the wordfor where it is – or isn’t –all I can say is,it’s ‘beyond’..

Buy a child's red-covered'My Exercise Book'like the one you boughtall those years agoto build a bridge -now you realise -a warm reassuring..

The other day in Central Parka park-keeper said, that urban parkswere motion pictures, beforemotion pictures … except that,they were the picture;..

I’ve only got to say the word…andI can hear the male murmur murmur right nowmixed with a hurhur hurhur as of naughty boys…suddenly lips and fingers..

How many noble schemes from goodwill's heart,how many splendid plans and fine ideashave foundered, lost their glorious craft and artthrough hesitancy..

On this Mediterranean night with its light breezescented with the sun-warmed herbsdrifting down from cooling, stony hills,a million stars you’ve..

You asked meto destroyall your love-lettersas if thatwould free you -from what?I wishI had read themonce againbefore I did;that would besome sort..

After death visited,they opened the houseas a museumit was easier than clearing itbut asHealth and Safety officialswere not happy, only oneat a time..