Life poems
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The Spirit
© Studdert Kennedy Geoffrey Anketell
When there ain't no gal to kiss you,And the postman seems to miss you,And the fags have skipped an issue, Carry on.
Mors Benefica
© Stedman Edmund Clarence
Give me to die unwitting of the day, And stricken in Life's brave heat, with senses clear: Not swathed and couched until the lines appearOf Death's wan mask upon this withering clay,But as that old man eloquent made way From Earth, a nation's conclave hushed anear; Or as the chief whose fates, that he may hearThe victory, one glorious moment stay
The True Story of My Father
© Starnino Carmine
There were days when I'd catch himalone at the kitchen table, lostinside some regret, his headcradled in his hands like the part
Pugnax Gives Notice
© Starnino Carmine
He’s done with it, the tridents and tigers,the manager’s greed, the sumptuous bedsof noble women who please their own moods
The Girl from Zlot
© Stallworthy Jon
Four gray walls, and four gray towers Overlook a space of flowers,And the silent isle embowers The Lady of Shalott.
From the Life
© Stallworthy Jon
"All this takes place on a hilly island in the Mediterranean," Picasso said
Insect Heads
© Robert Bly
These insects golden
And Arabic sailing in the husks of galleons
Their octagonal heads also
Hold sand paintings of the next life.
The Faerie Queene, Book III, Canto 6
© Edmund Spenser
THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QUEENEContayningTHE LEGENDE OF BRITOMARTISOR OF CHASTITIE
The Faerie Queene, Book II, Canto 12
© Edmund Spenser
THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QUEENEContayningTHE LEGEND OF SIR GUYON,OR OF TEMPERAUNCE
