Roughhewn Poems - Poems about Roughhewn

...Shoreditch clung to its ruin Its roughhewn gate staring out at corpses And the clutch of travellers heading from the fields, The shepherds rambling onwards, The herders with their slow-moving cat......

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...Hungry for ideas - a fish dish would help, an unhinged arm's length away, way over the Yangtze River, where, far from the nearest eyeball, drunken cormorants dive for silverplated carp. Alas, ......

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... Turtle by the Door The bears and wolves are few, one threadbare widow mourning, two grays as consumptive as smoke. The large dwindle, their bodies grow more awkward, more at odds. The heav......

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... Searching outside of myself Far and wide Looking into the eyes and souls of others Seeking answers Looking for my missing part Always sensing an absence Awakening one day with tears in m......

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...I could have been a thing spoken, a fine Chinese porcelain vase for instance with all my nature painted upon it. Herons in flight, storks stalking, ibis reciting the ‘I Ching’ to other ibis, lot......

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...I never cease to be amazed When in the morn the sun is raised To brightly light our lovely land A present wrought by God's own hand They mocked his short eventful life His miracles, did not he......

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... Turtle by the Door The bears and wolves are few; one threadbare widow mourning, two grays as consumptive as smoke. The large dwindle, their bodies grow more awkward, more at odds. The heav......

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...Skulled hill supports the lifted standard; skull bent ......

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