Metaphysical Poetry Entropy | 18 Sep 2007
Still Point
In the universe one world beneath cloud foliage. In that world a town. In the town a house with a child, who is blind, staring over the edge of the universe into the depth of love.. -R.S. Thomas
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Meditation-Introspection &Poetry Entropy | 15 Sep 2007
Don’t ask me
Don’t ask me; I have no recipe for a poem. You know the language, know where prose ends and poetry begins There should be no introit into a poem. The listener should come to and realise verse has been going on for some time. Let there be no coughing, no sighing. Poetry is a spell [...]
Metaphysical Poetry &Poetry Entropy | 15 Sep 2007
Dream..
In the dream I gave the Bird freedom. In real life I told it my dream in its cage..It sang then notes of gold hotter than my tears punishing itself for my dream -R.S.Thomas.
Philosophy &Poetry Entropy | 10 Sep 2007
The Echoes return slow
The poet scans the stars and the Scientist his equations. Life, how often must I be brought round to confront my image in an oblique glass ? The spirit revolves on itself and is without shadow, but behind the mirror is the twin helix where the dancing chromosomes pass one another back to back to [...]
Philosophy &Poetry- Physics Entropy | 10 Sep 2007
Time
Time ! The pessimist says: Time goes: the optimist:Its coming. What is this thing, time? Let Augustine be our spokesman. Its competitor knows its neurosis; the lover the dragging of its chained feet. Now, we say,looking at the moon that is the Sun in Australia. We keep saving it for future and arriving there are [...]
Metaphysical Poetry Entropy | 15 Jul 2006
The Island
And God said, I will build a church here And cause this people to worship me, And afflict them with poverty and sickness In return for centuries of hard work And patience. And its walls shall be hard as Their hearts, and its windows let in the light Grudgingly, as their minds do, and the [...]