Parade Ground Discipline
You have to learn to count to ten
in order to parade your line,
otherwise a danger of sprawl,
Armitage, reader at a crawl.
With the prosaic, the chop-stick
your lines down the page go tick, tick.
Lowell admired Valery
of Le Marin Cemetery.
Lecon Pour Simon (La)
La vers libre n'est pas libre
jeune T.S. Eliot a dis.
Le plus grand problem : Laxisme
( apres le fou Marxisme ).
Liberation, Liberation
How many Home Guard Divisions
are required to liberate
London Borough, by lost Borough
fallen to the scimitar State
or, of Sicily, the Saracens
with street-mobile Howitzer,
Blackhorse both Panther and Mecca
near tantalising reservoir.
We have to gain Tower Hamlet
with agents running the gauntlet.
In Lord Weary's Castle
" Colloquy in Black Rock " the one
and only, clanging able to stun
( after Gerard Manley Hopkins )
in Black Mud. The kingfisher darts.
Bought in Greenwich Village, I thought
how can I ever be so wrought ?
Colour Coding, Khan
A set percentage per Borough :
no more than ten per cent Allah,
similar, the Jungle wallah
though of course the half-caste pilfer.
Where is the green for The Golfer ?
and trim Jackie loving silver.
Checkmate : is she any sleeker
hiding thinner in black leather.
January 2nd New Year Feasting
Congratulations
Trump, well done in Venezuela.
MI6 gone tranquilizer.
(Next stop : wife with PM Starmer).
Argentina, Colombia.
Hereditary Teaspoons
Solo Deo Salus ; Griffin
engraved on hand-tip for tiffin
with, in Malaya, Tonic Gin
for malaria, dose quinine.
January 3rd
Not Life Studies
The marauding digirama
de-materializes detail,
the pointed of the persona
emoticons fan-mail.
January 5th
Literary Discipline
The poem is an artefact,
Simon, not moony wittering
every word justifying,
every word apparently fact
in le mot juste, to quote Flaubert
or in a trance, levitating.
Might Is Right
The Roman God Janus looked on
minus the proffer of cocaine,
the Rio Mexican beaten.
In Teutoburger Wald, eaten.
Multiverse Blue
The dystopian Pantheon
lit weakened by the Christian,
in The Temple structured Roman
readying strong, for an aeon.
January 6th finis
Emptied Church
Most of the congregation are
dead, of a Church, it would appear
and there is not an angel near.
Those remaining have much to fear.
The front door has only one bar.
On the outer Villa Estate
no standing, familiar gate.
In the sacked City, the odd clerk
able to use Latin at work
his accent improper, with care.
Ridicule De L'Ecole
for Cobra + Reform
Language is humanity, Rhyl
yet you parade the sub-human
every term morning, to Roman
and the fury of many, shrill.
How dare you insult the Glory
of Imperial Rome, with silly ?
All your black-quilted horror
group still, the making of terror.
Key Home Guard demand a closure
or mediation, by green hill.
January 7th
Ennui Bleu
So much for constant hard brazing
when I want star and sea gazing,
not deja vu, in the struggle
with those appearing horrible
beyond belief and baptising
in a font, and it is raining.
Never again, the plain sailing
and what if she murmured farewell.
January 8th
The Roman Removal
High time for the removal men
as le Carre' may have written
or once wrote, of an afternoon
and what, or who is removing
with the idea of improving
the lot of many, or leaving.
From The Darenth Valley, of Kent
and The City, a flotilla
set sail for France, conveying
rich southern Romano-Britons
departing their emptied Villa
post The Fall of The Saxon Shore.
In 420 ; by 450
A.D., Villa Rome was over.
January 9th a proforma Sonnet
Lachrimae, Tears
I keep on puzzling my Horace
in parallel text, find a trace
of foundation rooting of The West
losing sun, and life at the best
and note how he came in a Scroll
you could unfurl on Villa wall.
If you are reading this online
you scroll down the screen, the text fine.
What do you think Horace might say ?
May both of us last a long day.
Left To The Shovel
As a child, taken to Bignor
Roman Villa by my mother
and, examining Mosaic
wondered how the soil went thick
thereon, and saw the Chariot
speeding to London on Stane Street.
January 9th finis
Roman Stations
The Harvard Boston Latin School
was built in 1635.
Garnered under Puritan rule,
first in North America to thrive.
First, landing wet for Chichester
prime called Noviomagus
by The Romans, or 'Newmarket'
and for Neptune and Minerva
Temple. Invaded at Fishbourne,
a name harmonic for Boston.
Motto : Adhuc Hic Hesterna.
In Lincs. : Floreat Bostona.
Breaker King
How may you hoof, speaking German
as if an invader, Saxon
partly of origin, killer
of Roman 'Sussex', their simper
destroyed with Cogidubnus
and his staggering Palace
with Latin replaced by grunting.
From Normandy, a French saving.
I write as an enraged Baron
wanting French spoken to Salmon,
beg you to adopt Old North French
pre Latin reciting Credo
ante your sherry and Ludo.
Was Sussex part of Germany ?
by The 7th Baron Rokeby Presumed
January 11th/ 13th
Roman Occupation Sonnet
Villas at Upmarden, Chilgrove,
near to Fishbourne, and Sidlesham,
Bignor, Pulborough and Hardham,
Angmering and Littlehampton,
Southwick and West Blatchington,
Preston, Beddingham and Eastbourne
and north of Hastings, Beauport Park
not that names here are Roman.
The Map of The Occupation
Bath Houses, random, around ten.
Fortified City : Chichester
and Fort outright, Anderida.
The Street Posting Stations, of Stane :
Hardham Camp, before Alfodean.
Source : A History of Sussex ( J.R.
Armstrong 1961, 1995 Chichester )
January 15th re-write exc The Ring
Chanctonbury Sonnet
On South Down Way, Chanctonbury
Ring, windswept, site of mystery
even now, thought to be haunted
and staff at Bignor may still dread
a dark Witches' Coven, thereon
to fearing orgy with Satan.
There were two Romano-British
Temples, one Cult of Boar, said fish
up there, strong mid first to late 4th
century A.D. with sea forth.
There lay Bronze Age round barrow, dykes
from The Iron Age, temenos
or, sacred precinct. Out of time,
the arcadian sea sublime.
Near Muntham Court
Romano-British site, with bank
and ditch for temenos, Temple.
Found : of Boar, copper alloy plaque
charging, a Fish broach, enamelled
at the western edge of Findon
under Farm structure, water tank.
Roman Diminution Sonnet
It ended at Anderida
(Pevensey) with Saxon squalor,
the Roman Bastion fallen
at Chichester, then at Eastbourne ;
silt, the 'Cupid on a Dolphin'
mosaic at Palace Fishbourne.
It took fourteen years, for Saxon
out of Chichester to conquer
Pevensey, in 471
called Anderitum. Notitia
Dignitatum (421)
last Log of Imperium
(with 390's Byzantium)
list British Saxon Shore Forts nine.
January 15th/16th
Wolverine
The openly contemptuous
keep a terrible twist, mouthing
to a snarling like a lupus
at the door, all angry wanting...
and rich grapes in the high fresco
bunchy to nothing, from below.
What did the scratching at the door ?
Did a cooking smell match hung claw.
Will the servant girl on the floor
be corrupted by a boor,
her virginity paramount
for spooning water from a font.
Ah well, at least the Hypocaust
heating is working, to raunch toast.
The Reformation
Post Germanising the Norman
Salvation, the re-Roman
is an ongoing catastrophe,
ripping the sacred tapestry
feeding in The House of Windsor
pent in thrall to the plump monster.
In my family tree, I have
a Boleyn. For her, we still grieve.
Did she enjoy her fling with a King :
part French, did she go ring-a-ding.
January 11th
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