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Poems
I’ve always written poetry… but far too feeble to share! However, as I also love other people’s poetry, I can at least share some of my favourite poems… and perhaps give some insight why I like them and they are important to me!
Yellow
On the north bank of the Yellow River, west of the sea, is an army, Hammered drums and sounded bells are heard beneath the sky. The armoured horses cry out loud, I cannot tell their number, The high-nosed tribe of Hu are moving in great numbers. On the western bank of the Yellow River lies […]
MoreOn the Blue Shore of Silence
On the Blue Shore of Silence I need the sea because it teaches me, I don’t know if I learn music or awareness, if it’s a single wave or its vast existence, or only its harsh voice or its shining suggestion of fishes and ships. The fact is that until I fall asleep, in some […]
MoreA Green Stream
A Green Stream by Wang Wei I have sailed the River of Yellow Flowers, Borne by the channel of a green stream, Rounding ten thousand turns through the mountains On a journey of less than thirty miles…. Rapids hum over heaped rocks; But where light grows dim in the thick pines, The surface […]
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Too dark for vision, too deep for sound,
John Masefield is a poet whose imagery leaps off the page, whether it is exciting, or joyous, or as here, the absolute opposite… and an absolute opposite to yesterday’s sonnet: There, on the darkened deathbed, dies the brain That flared three several times in seventy years; It cannot lift the silly hand again, Nor speak, […]
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Lois Elsden 