December 2010
4 posts
Praise inventive ‘man’, Constructing a fixation- (‘Love’) Lessens the binds of being- Instinctively conjuring, Omnipotent conflict, In each masterpiece he shapes, Stirs corruption. Yet stand to admire, His lust for discovery,...
A Meeting Place
(On reading Rainer Maria Rilke)
Beneath the new shelter of spring leaf, The artist depicts, A delicate contribution, Of movements and strokes, Languishing tongues of colour, Precise curvature, A feminine design, Drifting from eye to hand, Liberated vision, Beyond the demand of canvas.
Conversing with the poet, Inscribing his praise, In fine woven patterns, Ink flowing in blood lines,...
A Subtle Science
However certain I am, That our respective sciences, May be compatible, (Though I watch fragments- Pass- Hurried, downward, And know the doubts and fears, Rising to action, In their spare thoughts) You see an intermittent stage, Of atoms cavorting, Shaping a being, Of inherited form, And yes- It is established, That those fine examples, Prove the existence, Of a universal labour-
My talk is the...
Blue Banners
Blue banners are reduced to ribbons, Weaving with police responses, And services quickened to an emergency. This human tragedy shares a common condition, Manifesto cannot translate to prosperity, Or secure fulfilment of dreams, Still, clutching them, The young seek a form of learned liberation, (As generations before) Gathering with closed fists, Wide, expressive mouths, In the living streets,...
