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Serendipity

by | Aug 16, 2020 | RI, SW

      Pennage Serendipity In shrouds a stretch of river there beneath The overhanging limbs of dark, dark trees (The Thames itself blocked out from light like death) Is suddenly a space where swans at ease Are floating like the souls of angels on The surface of the...

Swans in Meaningful Blue

by | Jul 26, 2020 | DE, SW

     Swans in Meaningful Blue The swans pretend that death does not exist, Or one at least turns, drifting, with his eyes Ignoring it.  Still, never mind the mist, The shadows far away use its disguise To threaten him so gently that he does not Record the menace. ...

Stretching the Eternal

by | Jul 16, 2020 | AP, ET, IM, OR, SW

     Stretching the Eternal Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “the soul’s survival and residual divinity” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 23 The followers of Orpheus, if not The man himself, desired...

Wonder

by | May 14, 2020 | DE, PI, SW

          Wonder Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If you had never seen a swan before And suddenly one glided into view, That instant would be like an open door To white and winged epiphany. The true...

Consider the Swan after Sunset

by | Dec 30, 2019 | SW

Consider the Swan after Sunset Consider how the swan lifts up his wings Above his pinion shape while gliding on The River Thames at Windsor.  Athelings Were never quite so handsome in the dawn Of England’s whiteless history (so full Of scarlet slaughter).  Not that...