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Denials

© Dimitris P. Kraniotis

A roar of cars
seals the dawn
with short-cut answers,
with unyielding denials

What I ask

© Dimitris P. Kraniotis

A ball of threads
my prayers
whisper
frightened.

Dirge OF Nelson

© William Lisle Bowles

Toll Nelson's knell! a soul more brave
Ne'er triumphed on the green-sea wave!
Sad o'er the hero's honoured grave,
Toll Nelson's knell!

One-word garments

© Dimitris P. Kraniotis

Waves of circumflexes
storms of adverbs,
windmills of verbs,
shells of signs of ellipsis,

Wires

© Philip Larkin

The widest prairies have electric fences,
For though old cattle know they must not stray
Young steers are always scenting purer water
Not here but anywhere. Beyond the wires

The donts and zeros

© Dimitris P. Kraniotis

The night
that strangled
the endless moments
I had wished

Rules and visions

© Dimitris P. Kraniotis

Life counts
the rules;
the sunset, their exceptions.
Rain drinks up

The Stranger

© John Clare

When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?
No, rather smile away despair;
For those have been more sad than I,
With burthens more than I could bear;
Aye, gone rejoicing under care
Where I had sunk in black despair.

The end

© Dimitris P. Kraniotis

The savour of fruits
still remains
in my mouth,
but the bitterness of words

The Enthusiast, or the Lover of Nature

© Joseph Warton

Ye green-rob'd Dryads, oft' at dusky Eve

By wondering Shepherds seen, to Forests brown,

Illusions

© Dimitris P. Kraniotis

Noiseless wrinkles
on our forehead
the frontiers of history,
shed oblique glances

Sutherlands Grave

© Henry Kendall

ALL NIGHT long the sea out yonderall night long the wailful sea,

Vext of winds and many thunders, seeketh rest unceasingly!

Ideals

© Dimitris P. Kraniotis

Snow-covered mountains,
ancient monuments,
a north wind that nods to us,
a thought that flows,

The Dunce

© Jacques Prevert

He says no with his head

but he says yes with his heart

Fictitious line

© Dimitris P. Kraniotis

Smokes
of cigarettes
and mugs
full of coffee,

Crow And Auden

© John Lindley

Hmm, Auden thought when first he saw
the bird, as train came to a stop,
Ill make this image mine before
some Yorkshire upstart snaps it up.

The Brewing Of Soma

© John Greenleaf Whittier

The fagots blazed, the caldron's smoke
Up through the green wood curled;
"Bring honey from the hollow oak,
Bring milky sap," the brewers spoke,
In the childhood of the world.

Scarecrow Crimes

© John Lindley

In Hayfield I imagine
not just the nuts and bolts of split cockpits
but a Spitfires sunk fuselage

To A Star

© Frances Anne Kemble

Thou little star, that in the purple clouds

Hang'st, like a dewdrop, in a violet bed;

Grandad And A Pramload Of Clocks

© John Lindley

Wheeling them in,
the yard gate at half-mast
with its ticking hinge,
the tin bucket with a hairnet of webs,