Tag: faith

• Craft

  I – Old But Recent Craft I make pollicitations to cunning bards past, Place of old poets thy Parnassian pasts immortal Your past-prime virtues now victuals to vexers who make you victims of gaunt learning or love-chagrinning solar sojourns. In dissecting I seek to neither venerate nor eviscerate, My lancet taps ichor and flowing essential…

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  13th Jan 2024

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• Lonely Star

  When I’m lonely I go most boldly  Toward the furthest star O’er hill and dale through sleet and hail To where I hope you are.  Upon yonder hill  And nearer still  To that cold and lonely star I spy your form upon a rock  Where on misty morn a bird might cock Of a sudden…

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  8th Jan 2024

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• Spiders Dreams

  My father made a pleasure dome in some mad Victorian fervour  He began with plants and stones until it extended further and further  Beyond crude palisades of hearty piled stones Near a pansy-shored meander, where a spider makes his home.  ‘Tween mossy stone and cloudy bank in a web of gossamer spun  This spider sits…

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  7th Jan 2024

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