The Hound of Sleep
...I see thee yet, mine eyes on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Thus to mine eyes, o'er th'one half world 'pon the sacred curtained sleep,
Seek thou sure and firm, set stepp'd earth nigh summon ...
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Categories:
gouts, blessing, deep, depression, farewell,
Form: Free verse
The Rainy Day
...Th cloud looked like airy anvils drifting under the gleaming disc of the sun,
Suddenly it became churlish and kraken-cruel,
The ansty swollen tar-black and large cloud began to roar in a fearsome w...
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Categories:
gouts, rain,
Form: Free verse
Tripling a Cross
...i
I dream a cross is dressed in diamonds rich.
It rears too high with spans that glisten gold
that stretch along the sky's chromatic edge
yet crimson rubies shine magenta tones.
Its light is ...
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Categories:
gouts, bible,
Form: Sonnet
Return To Sorrento
...(N.A.A.F.I. = universal store, found on
every British military base)
On some bleak airfield on some Cambridge fen
(that awful winter - 'forty-seven, I think)
my mother, novice servicewoman ...
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Categories:
gouts, home,
Form: Terza Rima
Why We Must Go On
...propriocetion of an unhappy deltoid
the eyeball flambé of envy
and other itches stitches palsies and gouts
shout give up, throw it in, it’s too much!
such suggestions never make me waver
rathe...
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Categories:
gouts, song-lyricme, me,
Form: I do not know?