(Apologies to A.E. Housman) Is my team playing That I once used to coach? I stood proud upon the bench My word beyond reproach. Yes, the players dangle, The new coach whistles well. No change though you are behind The bars that form your cell. Are fans still coming – To fill the chilly rink? To...
‘What visceral growl makes din this late hour? T’is not merely the storm, though it brews worse. Is this Cordell, first-born, flexing power? Ingratitude! Thou most vile fiend be cursed. Eager to usurp what’s near enough yours. Impatient youth, can you not wait to rule? This gale’s howls drowned by loud...
Walk with me my love, take my hand in yours Seek great places that long enchanted us By unknown or forgotten force made clear To those who care to see, who want to see While time slows and frets and gives us our look. Run with me my love, take...
Twixt what we want and what we get Are schemes which leave us deep in debt And dreams we lose to compromise Convenient sales and lousy buys. Twixt what we were and what we are Omitting tides and yonder stars How lost we seem along the way Our spirits chained to feet...
Is that you again Bill Bennett Born under your own star, The national moral compass And self-styled virtue tsar? Does the past still make your cases? And all things cawed by Cato? Denouncing Greeks and all their ilk ‘Cept that is for Plato. Yes, Cato too despised them Greeks Save for his son’s learning, As...
A lot grown too content and wayward blind Saw not the peril or chose to ignore The past – filled smartly by a fervent kind Marching in long contempt to what had before Been refuge for bold foresight and free mind In loud deceit claimed order to restore And stained reason...
The late day sun teetered on the mountain Long shadows had enveloped the land Creatures afraid of the glare would emerge Drawn from their burrows by the call of night Hunters and hunted in the same bleak space I had driven miles in barren desert Yet...
Two score and more around the sun Winged chariots I’ll not outrun My hubris wanes along with hope Save slightest chance that helps to cope. I could have been more happy here Had many friends not disappeared I know too well the fault’s my own That I can´t choose to be alone. I...
With warm rays of gold I halt the raw cold, And start the growth anew. On slim shafts of yellow I seek to mellow When skies and mood are blue. When I am lonely with being the only Sun in miles of sight. I talk with my flower, save in a...
Why is it you dismiss the past And works which will forever last? The present stems from what we’ve gained What’s new has often been explained. To glow with thoughts of what’s to be And unlock all those doors you see Where future scenes play in your mind A Goya for a...