or, Sundial Return
Post Coup Preview Sextet
All of the Hereditary
Peers certainly re-instated,
you bunch snivelling little rats
unable to speak mother tongue.
As for traitor Corbyn, prison
along with Labour Islington.
Are there many bats in the belfry ?
On the upper walk, a sentry.
In the car park, they get ranty.
Long for cuisine in the pantry !
Chrysalis
Returning to sundial zen
through Crisalide of Montale,
you go out of the land of false
consciousness and the avatar
in your hot angelo d'orto
or, corner of kitchen garden
if you have one. Or borrow one.
You do become existential
or, in reverie, littoral
by cuttlefish bones, well astray
re-entering your dry portal.
Here, inaction to no action
al cuore che abdica.
You exist, minus a faction.
John Galsworthy Interlude
Truly, the end of an era
in which the British, class upper
could afford key tall Property
in Hyde Park London, having no
threat from the overseas uber
funding, ballooning the buy tag.
His young women, weirdly modern
and bare, credibly sensual.
The tragic Mansion, Robin Hill
had a viewing of Epsom Down
so clear of London. His 'Preludes'
urban pain poetry equal
to part of T.S. Eliot ;
his Indian Summer, Tennyson.
False Consciousness
No vocal counter-argument
to the horrors, allowed on air.
Living a lie, Establishment.
Last Election result, unfair.
Those inhabiting denial
one day will be put on trial.
Golden Time Sextet
Whispering sweet nothing, she came
and beneath the rose-bush, aflame
in the high afternoon sunlight
golden moments felt kept alight,
to accrue store for tedium
and in the darkening, boredom.
March 11th
Castle Spring, Duino
My father had a Castle Spring
at Trieste, as ADC
to secret General Airey ;
prior, I have told the story.
Did he know Rilke walked on by ?
on high, past his double bedroom.
The era, post War Italy
and the challenger was Tito.
Prior, I have told how young Joan
came down from Vienna, Austria
for the BRCS, to stay.
(They had a bedding honeymoon.)
The worry, Yugoslavia.
Airey controlled the Free City.
The Shortages
Any PM leaving Army
short of ammunition, balmy
thus, liable to be sectioned
then by an Officer questioned.
I On Ian Caws (South 31, 2005)
His writing quite often about
which is out of sight ; deep sea trout
wind might quip, the music haunting
and a 'subject' slant pretending.
II Gratitude (South 29, 2004)
They printed my text Cello Moon
of shadowland, Littlehampton.
Like a cello on glass guiding
an ebony fugue, the moon in...
Condition Of Citizenship
Sing Onward Christian Soldiers
monthly, Corbyn, and Islington
and Camden Council, at folders
to prove your idea of Heaven.
March 12th totalement finis
Time Ends
Time ends in the instant gone
and intermittent memory
if you have one, with so little
left. But, hesitant, can be reborn
with a sudden freshness from past
time, and an unbusy era.
Perhaps, then, there is the visitant
from a para world, and she there.
Media can draw you, guilty
of not, free, paying attention.
Going back in time, a return
in time, for a vodka and lime,
in Malaya gin and tonic
for malaria, with quinine.
Camden Voices 1978-90 ed. DL
Maritime Nation : The Sinking
Of The Belgrano (C. Truman).
Silesia Over Dinner ;
Early Dusk. In an empty room...
Friday March 13th on page 39
I Due Punishment Quatrain
Cause : shortage of ammunition,
immediate resignation.
That a cause for celebration.
Leading to inebriation.
II The Imbeciles
Funding your trash human garbage
and barely a tank in the garage.
Of everything, a shortage.
Europa has taken umbrage.
March 13th/14th
March Bird
Vast open weather, cumulus
patchy in time to be joyful
and, strong, you are not where you are.
Resting, the sea is very far.
Changing cloudscape is an escape.
To an augmenting green landscape.
Minority Danger Q
Our Fighting Capability
has been ruined by enemy
within. Harry without pity.
Subject to infertility.
The Enemy Q
They, enemy, opposed to Rome,
still not calling Albion home.
The Government is made of chrome.
They have a corrupted genome.
Study Question
Is there an example Qur'an
set printed in Times New Roman -
Revealed in Arabic
the scripting of the hysteric.
Windy March, Ezra
The Pisan Cantos read again
in part, at The Regent's Park Lake
without paying much attention,
wind gusting the distracted page
of endless jabbing point, mention.
A kaleidoscope ; not a fake.
Deja Vu Tantrum
Re-reading '25 Shutdown,
one damned couplet after couplet
with Surrey Jingles, in triplet -
that repeating, bringing a frown.
March 15th totalement finis
Sur Le Terrace Reprise
Time enough to enjoy the time,
now too much of a luxury
best dealt with in going off-grid
to abandoning all influence.
De nouveau, sur un beau bateau.
Time a deux can be deepening.
You query : who is following.
Better to take Horatian ease.
Cloud La La Land
No Warships to The Gulf he said.
Leaving Mass, I passed a fat, smug
Negro waddling to school, well fed
smirking a benefits' bred fug.
Government gross stupidity...
expect to, stood against a tree.
Camden filling up with brain-dead
to T.S. Eliot unread.
No sense of the priority !
Camden, purge of idiocy.
Sick to death of writing this stuff,
to be blunt, I have had enough.
Best place for that youth, Parade ground
and deprived of all horror sound.
March 16th totalement finis
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Distilla Veleno ex Montale
Resiste, la voce non muta.
La primavera lunare
e Ravenna e' lontana.
Marshal Tito did come over
to London (1953).
General Airey, Trieste.
cf Cave D'Autunno, Dora Markus
de Le Occasioni (Montale 1939).
Greek Vase-Painting
Ante the era of Homer
the potters' wheel for vasa.
The Greek Quarter : Keramikos
in the west of ancient Athens.
Post Cretan, The Geometric
Style c. 900 B.C.
Ornamentation, pre picture,
Corinth, the influence of Asia.
March 18th
Slow Living
What will the disillusioned do ?
Eat chopped tomatoes garlic stew.
There is never anything new.
That is, until grass a sea blue.
Resiste
Rebel contra stimulation
and spirit falsification
trying to nail your attention.
You, kept in server detention.
Solarity
Moving up and down in a breeze
my brightly sunlit notebook page
and this is line seven, to please.
Empty, the rest may take an age.
Tempus Fugit
So hot, you think you are stealing
sunlight from death, pace Houseman
who urged taking up the morning
warning, grave, no cherry blossom.
Contis Pres De Mimizan
Le soleil couchant, terrible
dans le Ocean vaste d'Aquitaine.
Apres l'hiver, collines de sable.
Vous n'avez pas un fort maison.
March 19th finis
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