Klimt’s Jurisprudence Eumenides watch The condemned man’s punishment Psycho sexual power In a sea monster’s embrace Fuelled by female furies Image found on en.wikipedia.org
Tag: Poems
A poem to sum up my feelings in this post.
Another painting destroyed by the Nazis at Schloss Immendorf
Klimt’s Medicine Death Is a skeleton, A bony frame, In the river of life. … The river of life Is a mass of figures, Male and female, Nude. … Nude Is the woman Afloat in space, Newborn life At her feet. … At their feet, Is Hygeia, Snake coiled Around her arm, Cup of Lethe […]
I seem to be immersed in Klimt again!
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Horse in an Open Field
A lofty step Elastic tread Stout back And clean-cut head Ears stiffen Nostrils snort A toss of mane His spirit’s caught Pounding hooves Flying rein-less Chase the wind Into the space Between Heaven and earth
A poem prompted by a recent photograph
Afternoon Stroll In the cold light Of a low rolling Watercolour landscape Along wide grassy tracks Brown ridges of coarse stubble Passing wind-twisted hunch-backed trees And giant mounds of muddy sugar beet A colour-wash of beige and brown Interrupted Only By bright red Barn doors
Long Distance
Poems are long distance Love songs To everyone To everything Distance frees you Opens mind and heart Until Words surf on oceans Stanzas steam like liners Sailing poetry Towards a lighthouse In a distant place Someone else’s heart
We went to the last Caspian gig in their latest UK tour in Brighton last night…
and this is for Phil and the boys. It was great to see you again.
On this autumn morning…
I thought I’d start with one of my favourite poems by e.e. cummings A Wind Has Blown The Rain Away And Blown a wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think i too have known autumn too long (and what have you […]
writing in north norfolk 