I've Looked So Much... I've looked on beauty so much that my vision overflows with it. The body's lines. Red lips. Sensual limbs. Hair as though stolen from Greek statues, always lovely, even...
A toughie tonight, one of five poems dealing with the same human drama, by Dan Burt; POST-OP In the room scrubs come and go, check vital signs, the glucose drip, bring clear liquids for her to sip,...
The sale of new petrol and diesel cars will be banned in Britain from 2030 as part of a Great Reset promoted by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s current official girlfriend Carrie Symonds (aka Princess...
Poetry I too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers that there is in it after all, a place for the...
Earlier (& lighter!) than usual. Anybody's birthday today? it's one of my daughters' for sure. A Birthday BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My...
Going out on Netfix today. I haven't seen it but it appears it is going to be controversial;
is it fair to fictionalize the private lives of real people?...
LONGINGS Like the beautiful bodies of those who died before growing old, sadly shut away in sumptuous mausoleum, roses by the head, jasmine at the feet -- so appear the longings that have passed...
This, written by a doctor, is one case only, but one case too many don't you think?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/read-this-shocking-account-and-decide-if-our-nhs-is-wonderful/...
ANNIE On the Texas coast Between Mobile and Galveston there A large garden full of roses It also contains a villa Which is a large pink A woman often walks In the garden alone And when I go on the...
When the Barocco. came over the hill with its cerulean vaults and golden exhortations Otto in the tower took leave of his fleisch, attending to the rumble in the near beyond. Up the staircase of the...
Waiting for the Barbarians What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. Why isn’t anything going on in the senate? Why are the senators sitting there without...
Life is Motion In Oklahoma, Bonnie and Josie, Dressed in calico, Danced around a stump, They cried, ‘Ohoyaho. Ohoo’ . . . Celebrating the marriage Of flesh and air. Wallace Stevens (1879 – 1955)...
By popular request (2!) a poem by the Irish poet Herbert Trench (1865-1923) ‘She comes not when noon is on the roses’ She comes not when noon is on the Roses – Too bright is the day. She comes not to...
Voices Ideal voices, the beloved voices of those who have died or of those who are lost to us as if they were dead. Sometimes they speak to us in dreams; sometimes, in thought, the mind hears them....
I have recipe which requires a 'two litre glass container such as a Kilner jar' but that sounds enormous, is there such a thing, or what else could I use please?...
BBC journalists are refusing to follow the new guidelines on the need for impartiality claiming that they are unnecessary, despite the fact that last year the Beeb spent £153,000 on Guardian...