The Twain - Poems of Earth and Ether | The Twain - Poems of Earth and Ether
Apr.01.2012
Poem for Palm Sunday from my first collection, The Twain, Poems of Earth and Ether
"For my yoke is easy and my burden light." Matt. 11:30
The air is fanned with feather fronds
The ground is strewn with boughs
A makeshift carpet tells the way
And straightened path...
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Oct.07.2011
Oh, I'd like to be Poet Laureate,the best literary ballgame around,to chronicle functionsand royal conjunctionswould suit me down to the ground.
To muse on the subtext of historymight prompt an account in free verse,but the annals of timewould ring with my rhymeand the picture would be none...
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Sep.29.2011
Song of the Angels - W A Bouguereau
On the Feast of St Michael and All Angels (Michaelmas)
Is this how it should have been?Incandescence bids farewell,secede's to night's increaseabove the shadowed downs and hillsan ash of silhouetted leavesand purple isles adrift in sheen-still seas...
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Oct.03.2010
(from the Rhapsodies section of THE TWAIN, poems of Earth and Ether)
We followed him through the foothills of Tabor
leaving the world's clamour behind
sounds muzzled by distance and heat-haze
and the remoteness
of another sphere
the sardonic scree irking our toes
but we climbed...
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Mar.19.2010
April Love - Arthur Hughes © Tate Britain
Poem from The Twain, Poems of Earth and Ether coming April 2012
Update: Published April 23, 2012
New brooms and turning tides
herald the Arian brides...
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Dec.11.2009
Wishing you a Joyful and Peaceful holiday season...and health and happiness in 2013, Apocalypse or not!
FREE DOWNLOAD of The Twain, Poems of Earth and Ether
April is the cruellest month, the poet says.
Green shoots and blossoms make
a mockery of winter's torpid isolation -
the sky's...
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