Acting Like a Tree |
When I got to the party and saw everybody
walking around in Christmas costumes,
I remembered I was supposed to be wearing one, too.
Bending slightly, I held out my hands
and waved th...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:01:00 GMT |
Peace |
The trade of war is over, there are no more battles,
but simple murder is still in.
The No God, Time, creeps his way,
universe after universe, like a great snapping turtle
opening its mouth wagging ...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:49:00 GMT |
Behold |
Behold the amazing artificial arm, a machine
eerily similar to the arm it replaced, machined
to exacting tolerances, as its engineers say,
to "the limits of allowable error."
Think of ...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:59:00 GMT |
Wall |
Climbing in the mist I came to a terrace wall
and saw above it a small field of broad beans in flower
their white fragrance was flowing through the first light
of morning there a little way up the m...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:13:00 GMT |
Questions |
It Doesn't Do To Ask Too Many Questions...
I never knew my father's...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:05:00 GMT |
INNNNNNNN |
In Juno Beach, on Pelican Lake,
Joseph Saul ate potato chips off a paper plate
and fed the broken bits to a duck.
He was accompanied by Laurie McGraw,
whom he met at the Alzheimer's Support...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:38:00 GMT |
Poetry |
Gate of Horn
Forgive me if I seem a bit at sea
but you woke me from a dream of words
I was setting to music I'll want you
to transcribe for mea quatrain Shakespeare wrote
when he was eleven, "The unc...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:25:00 GMT |
Poetry of James Mc Laughlin |
www.stridemagazine.co.uk
http://www.kritya.in/0312/En/poetry_at_our_time.html
http://the-beat.co.uk/my-perfect-poem/
or at: http://the-beat.co.uk/leid/
or at: www...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:05:00 GMT |
Uncle Pat 2 |
In later life I met Uncle Pat in the pub. He was just standing at the bar drinking minding his own business. Me being me I went straight over to him and started up a conversation. I recall he was...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:09:00 GMT |
Uncle Pat |
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Posted by on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:00:00 GMT |
