Best Peake Poems

...adapted from the novel 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his target a small Channel Island,
a sampling of people just like you and me.
All he wants is that folks get along
without...

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...adapted from 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with 
     bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his target a small 
     Channel Island,
a representative sampling of people 
  ...

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...adapted from the novel 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his target a small Channel Island,
a sampling of people just like you and me.
All he wants is that folks get along
without...

Continue reading...

...adapted from the novel 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free;
he selects as his target a small Channel Island,
a representative sampling of people just like you and me.

All he wants is that folks get...

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...a tribute to 'Mr Pye,' a novel by Mervyn Peake

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Balding and sprightly, he's filled with 
     bold dreams
to make us all happy and...

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...a tribute to British novelist and illustrator
Mervyn Peake, and his trilogy, 'Gormenghast' 


Behold his birth, a brand new Earl, 
the Guardian of the Halls of Groan! 
yet 'til he reach the age of seven 
his father Sepulchrave will own 
the ritual and the royal robes...

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...a tribute to 'Mr Pye,' a novel by Mervyn Peake

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Balding and sprightly, he's filled with 
     bold dreams
to make us all happy and...

Continue reading...

...adapted from 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with 
     bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his target a small 
     Channel Island,
a representative sampling of people 
  ...

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spaceship to the moon
saturday unmanned she flies
heart and soul within

Written 1st September 2022 ~ after seeing Major Tim Peake tell tales of his 6 months as an astronaut on-board the ISS - fascinating...

Contest BRIAN STRAND PREMIERRE CONTEST
Sponsor  Brian Strand
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...a tribute to Mervyn Peake and his trilogy


Behold his birth, a brand new Earl, 
the Guardian of the Halls of Groan, 
yet 'til he reach the age of seven 
his father Sepulchrave will own 
the ritual and the royal robes 
of office o'er this shadowed...

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...adapted from 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free,
he selects as his target a small Channel Island,
a representative sampling of people just like you and me.
All he wants is that folks get along
without all...

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'...with quenchless canvasses of twisted fire' - Mervyn Peake


Your vision was a beacon
gracing us with golden sheen,
your heart was dark and heavy
with redemption rarely seen.

You plumbed the incongruities 
of faithfulness and fear,
you challenged life's inequities
so often with a tear

of sadness in your dream-dimm'd eyes
and shades...

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"Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia"
Mervyn Peake

Crash boom bang, I gulp at the din
A buzz then became a chatter
Gone cuckoo at ding dong I'm in
Crash boom bang

Ring, zing, jingle what's the matter
Thump, bump, today is not a win
Creak clang thud oh what a clatter

Now I...

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...a tribute to Mervyn Peake 



Behold his birth, a brand new Earl, 
the Guardian of the Halls of Groan! 
yet 'til he reach the age of seven 
his father Sepulchrave will own 
the ritual and the royal robes 
of office o'er this shadowed realm, 
'til...

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...adapted from the novel 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free;
he selects as his target a small Channel Island,
a representative sampling of people just like you and me.

All he wants is that folks get...

Continue reading...