The Masque of Anarchy - by
‘Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you-
Ye are many – they are few.’
Mood: Optimism & Happiness
Before the ice is in the pools - by
Before the fields have finished,
Before the Christmas tree,
Wonder upon wonder
Will arrive to me!
Happiness - by
I’ve made my own Museum of / Happiness, which isn’t built of brick / or stone or wood…
A Birthday - by
I never felt so much
/ Since I have felt at all
/ The tingling smell and touch
/ Of dogrose and sweet briar,
/ Nettles against the…
The Release - by
The scaffolding has gone. The sky is there! hard cold high clear and blue.
/ Clanking poles and thudding planks were the…
On Being Eighty - by
Broad in the beam? More broad in sympathy.
/ Stiff in the joints? More flexible in mind.
/ Deaf on the right? New voices…
Avoiding the gods - by
They have come
/ to scald our blood, to call us out
/ from our bright houses to the twisted shadows under trees.
/ Let us…
The Legless Man - by
(The Dark Side)
/
/ My mind goes back to Fumin Wood, and how we stuck it out,
/ Eight days of hunger, thirst and…
At Eighty - by
Push the boat out, compañeros,
/ push the boat out, whatever the sea.
/ Who says we cannot guide ourselves
/ through the boiling reefs, black…
The Letter Always Arrives at its Destination - by
Then I wrote often to the sea,
/ to its sunk rope and its salt bed,
/ to the large weed mass lipping the…
Happy Thought - by
The world is so full of a number of things
/ I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Mon-doria - by
Mon-doria,
/ my heart’s river,
/ overflowing
/ with joy and song,
/ you skip softly,
/ …