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FEAR NO MORE from kendrive ^Pro 48 days old

I am leaving Shakespeare's sonnets for the time being, as I am detecting a "sameiness" about them, which may become boring. There is much more poetry ...

CAN'T SLEEP from kendrive ^Pro 125 days old

INSOMNIAC The night is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole ...

MOONLIGHT from kendrive ^Pro 234 days old

MOONLIGHT BENDS OVER THE BLACK SILENCE Moonlight bends over the black silence, Making it bloom to wild-flowers of sound That only green things can ...

A FAN OF SMOKE from kendrive ^Pro 276 days old

About three weeks ago i posted Bodenheim's poem "Death", where he portrayed the grim reaper as a black slave, with little silver birds on his shoulder. Today ...

FACES OF WAR from kendrive ^Pro 284 days old

SOLDIERS The smile of one face is like a fierce mermaid Floating dead in a little pale-brown pond. The lips of one are twisted To a hieroglyphic ...

AN AIR TOO POOR TO ROB from kendrive ^Pro 359 days old

Edwin Morgan skilfully describes the scene in a Scottish tenement slum. FROM GLASGOW SONNETS A mean wind wanders through the backcourt trash. Hackles ...

HOLD ME, SNIFF ME, PEEL ME from kendrive ^Pro 361 days old

THE APPLE'S SONG Tap me with your finger, rub me with your sleeve, hold me, sniff me, peel me curling round and round till I burst out white and cold from ...

GOLDEN APPLES OF HESPERIDES from kendrive ^Pro 429 days old

I have recently returned from Greece and thought that today I would go back to that country's mythology with a poem about apples - golden apples that ...

EDMUND GOSSE from kendrive ^Pro 520 days old

It is not only the stars that come out at night! It is also the Gods, Nymphs, Dryads and Satyrs - who frolic until the morning star appears. Edmund ...

THE VAGABOND from kendrive ^Pro 710 days old

I first came across this poem as a song, set to music by the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. However, I note that Stevenson intended it to be sung ...