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Grotesqueries

        Grotesqueries   Military Cross given to Siegfried Sassoon for his “conspicuous gallantry during a raid on the enemy’s trenches.”   Imagining the worst might happen, Brooke Writes out a letter to his mother who Is gung ho for the war.  His fears unhook...

I Saw Boys Playing Cricket . . .

     I Saw Boys Playing Cricket . . . . . . in white upon a cricket ground today In Oxfordshire as if long centuries passed And made no difference.  There I saw the sway Of bat.  Tradition in a woollen cast, A cast, though supple as the hips and thighs Contained in...

Untroubled Gaultier Green

            Untroubled Gaultier Green The May-time trees put on their costumes, green, Green, green,  and greenish yellow, style.  A few Are copper beech in color.  All have sheen Of silk and satin, every one.  Their coup D’etat is total like a Paris show Composed by...

Gleaned from the Darkly Glowing Web

 Gleaned from the Darkly Glowing Web Modern poetry  modern verse contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem The rightwing ravings from a friend of long Ago are like the readings in a mind Inside an ancient prophet with a strong Dementia...

Truer than Truth

               Truer than Truthem Modern poetry  modern verse contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem Great is Beauty’s grace,                                    Truth is yet as fair as she. ~ Thomas Campion High duty comes in...

Simple

Simple ’Tis the gift to be simple ~ Shaker song The sea seems simple in our sight today. The waves, if varied, do not vary much. They come and go.  They come and go.  The way The sun comes up is ordinary, such As many days before.  Of course it finds The mountain...