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NO TIME FOR DANCES from kendrive ^Pro 145 days old

On Thursday of next week , at Sunbury Poetry Group, I shall be attending a talk on "The Life and Works of Louis Macneice". He is a poet of whom I know ...

PURE NONSENSE from kendrive ^Pro 153 days old

JABBERWOCKY 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. 'Beware ...

EMOTIONAL MONOLOGUE from kendrive ^Pro 240 days old

A man is sitting within the enigmatic turmoil of a railroad station. His face is narrow and young, and his nose, lips, and eyes carved to a Semitic ...

THIS IS MY LOT from kendrive ^Pro 311 days old

Here is Cavafy in depressed, despondent mood - as he often is! THE CITY You said: "I'll go to another country, go to another shore, find another ...

TO BE BORN FOR THIS from kendrive ^Pro 356 days old

The first few lines of this poem remind me of myself last Friday when, getting up from the table in a London coffee bar, I clumsily knocked my cup and ...

WAR'S HELL from kendrive ^Pro 563 days old

A DEAD BOCHE To you who’d read my songs of War And only hear of blood and fame, I’ll say (you’ve heard it said before) ”War’s Hell!” and if you doubt ...

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT from kendrive ^Pro 584 days old

WHO EVER LOVED, THAT LOVED NOT AT FIRST SIGHT It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate. When two are stripped, ...

THE SONG OF SONGS from kendrive ^Pro 965 days old

I always begin and end my annual poetry presentation with passages from the Bible and this year will be no exception. I have already said that I will ...

MORE FROST from kendrive ^Pro 1318 days old

A Dream Pang I had withdrawn in forest, and my song Was swallowed up in leaves that blew alway; And to the forest edge you came one day (This was ...

(24) "CELEBRATION" THE SEASONS from kendrive ^Pro 1370 days old

SUMMER MOODS I love at eventide to walk alone, Down narrow glens, o'erhung with dewy thorn, Where, from the long grass underneath, the snail, Jet ...