The Eyes of The Seer

I Last night I dreamed that I returned to Delphi.  [1] [2] The untamed woods with gnarled green branches thrusting Skyward from dark trunks, those ancient groves Nestling on the slopes of Mount Parnassus. The marble portico of the temple of  [3] Apollo, the colonnade dappled with a Chiaroscuro of light and shade Where we […]

The Concept of Reality

“The concept of Reality Is based upon a fallacy”, Said the Flying Fish To the doe-eyed Unicorn Who was polishing her horn With her beautiful cloven front hooves. Sang the rhapsodist Whose sweet voice Issued from beneath eyes Which gleamed in the fiery flickering flames Of a bright wood fire In that clearing on Chios. […]

A Single Bee

In Roman days did the Centurion, Returning home to Rome victorious, With Augustus, hear the adulation Of the crowd as it bequeathed its unctuous Praise on the Princeps, their greatest blessing, In the Triumphal Procession?   Did he Look beyond his present time, wondering At the unknowable future?   Do we… II Julus is trying to imitate […]

Astoundment

In a storm on the Sea of Galilee,  [1]  [2] Wild, white-tipped waves, mountainous and monstrous, Wind-driven, swamp the boat threateningly, Inundating, with power to sink us. Some row, some bale, a desperate mission. We cast flabbergasted, furtive, glances At the figure lying on the cushion, How can he sleep in these circumstances? ’Master, do […]

Representing The Lives of Days Bygone

The plains are behind me and I espy A fantastic, wonderful, new country Which has strangely complex topography. How can I use language to versify The variety; gently folding hills,        Deep river valleys, sharp caps upthrusting, [1] Forests greenly photosynthesising, Meandering streams, and rollicking rills? I am fired by my imagination. By ancient literature o’ […]

The Bands of Years

At speed amidst the rosy-fingered dawn, With a fluttering of his mighty wings, Burnished with gold, in quick response he came, Flying from the high eyries of the North. Splendorous with the coming of the sun, He alighted within the Court and set The leaves of countless summers past astir. In olden times the silver […]