‘In our time the destiny of man presents its meaning
in political terms.’ (Thomas Mann)
How can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics?
Yet here’s a travelled man that knows
What he talks about,
And there’s a politician
That has read and thought,
And maybe what they say is true
Of war and war’s alarms,
But [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Politics
Posted in Poetry, W B Yeats on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Invitation to Bristol
Posted in Poetry, Robert Graves on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
‘Come as my doctor,
Come as my lawyer,
Or come as my agent
(First practise your lies)
For Bristol is a small town
Full of silly gossip
And a girl gets abashed by
Ten thousand staring eyes.’
‘Yes, I’ll come as your lawyer
Or as your god-father,
Or even as Father Christmas? -
Not half a bad disguise -
With a jingle of sleigh bells,
A sack full [...]
Envoi
Posted in K V Bailey, Poetry on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The sweet ship Carbonek, with all her crew,
seen through the lines of light,
glimmers now green, now blue,
and spins from sight.
A jewelled ship, the Carbonek flies by,
now in, now out of Time.
Within all glows celestially.
The sounding chime
of every chord that fills Broceliande
marks the coincidence of joy
and stellar destiny. She finds
the marker buoy
that points her path along [...]
