by phillipw | Dec 14, 2019 | SE
How to Keep People from Occupying the Seat Next to You in the Bus or Coach The obvious thing’s to put your luggage on The seat beside you, but there’s a flaw In this maneuver. You’re dumb as a prawn If you don’t know that some are selfish gits And...
by phillipw | Dec 14, 2019 | FR
Charles-Maurice Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Bénévent, Abbé de Saint-Denis at Reims, Vicar General to the Archbishop of Reims, Member of the Assembly of the Clergy, Agent General of the Clergy, Bishop of Autun, Depute to the States General (National Assembly),...
by phillipw | Dec 14, 2019 | TR
For Charles Randall Stanfield The tall deciduous trees have not put out Their dew-struck, springy leaves. Perhaps it’s wise Of these large limbs. Perhaps they have a doubt Since winter keeps returning. Let hopes rise Inside their tempered bark once April gives A...
by phillipw | Dec 14, 2019 | KE, RI, VE
Keats, Rimbaud, Verlaine Day after day I sit and write French verse Forms, villanelles and terzanelles. At noon I leave the British Library. “Much worse Existences,” I say, smugly, “are strewn Across the urban universe.” Today I noticed from the bus Paul...
by phillipw | Dec 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Pure Eve and the Serpent Not one of us is wholly human. So They say. They mean that we are part divine Or that we have angelic bits, or low Down stuff in us; we’re worse than stinking swine, Yak, yak, yak, blah, blah. Blindly this ignores The obvious truth. Of...
