Contrition

Contrition

Fed with deceit, evasions, secrets, lies,

Love falters, weakens, sickens, fails and dies.

Only remorse can heal, hot tears restore

Love’s breath, warmth, care and passion as before. 

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Epigram: Wind Chimes

Epigram: Wind Chimes

            'Be braver or your luck will go.'

                               Romany proverb.

The lightest air alarms them so they chime

Alarmed tintabulation all the time.

What can they do if wintry gales should come

But tinkle wildly, shatter, then fall dumb?

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Epitaph for My Enemies

Epitaph for My Enemies

May the earth lie lightly on their

weed grown graves

That the dogs may quickly drag

them out again.

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Humble Apology for a Grave Breach of Propriety and Decorum

Humble Apology for a Grave Breach of Propriety and Decorum

As some huge lion, pent within its cage,

Lusting for freedom, breaks out in a rage,

So did this Wanton, thirsting to be free,

Break loose and so disgrace itself and me.

I crave your pardon; beg for nothing more,

Yet there’s a question you may not ignore:

Did not your beauty open that cage door?

And one more thing –though this may give you pause-

Would you feel joy or anguish in its jaws?

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Prospero to Miranda: His Testament

Prospero to Miranda: His Testament

Freed from both Caliban and Ferdinand

You shall inherit powers, books and art,

The island’s yours. Soon from the sun-drenched sand,

My funeral pyre, retrieve my unchanged heart.

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Epitaph for the Tomb of Flavius Claudius Julianus

Epitaph for the Tomb of Flavius Claudius Julianus

Blessed with rare courage and intelligence,

Yet often rash or void of common sense,

He stumbled on, till Zeus sent him a wife

Wiser than he, whose counsels throughout life

Led him to Truth.  Pray, passer-by, that She,

May guide him still, throughout eternity.

Iris, fair goddess watching from above,

Remembering Julian, remembers Love.

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Epigram: Hades

Epigram: Hades

When Iris, earthly race now done

Stood pensive on that Stygian shore,

Her dark eyes, radiant as the sun,

Made surly Charon drop his oar.

[A free translation from the Greek of the minor Roman poet, Flavius Claudius Julianus, 'Iris mea mortua erat' ...etc]

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Tarot

Tarot

Prattle of ‘getting to first base’ is base,

Being based on baseless fears, mistrust and more.

We play a game where strange Arcana rule,

Fate deals, twin Lovers win and Gods keep score.

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