Orpheus pull out the strings of my heart And stretch them head to bottom on your lyre; Tighten them, tune them and please quickly start The yearning melodies of my desire. Thanks Orpheus, now let me hear the strain Of the tuneful Nine sent across the years The soft rhytm within the gales of the […]
Heart Strings of Israfel Timid the strains I hear tonight yearning fall Breath of the spheres keyed cadence break Into breakers of harmony, drifting foam enthrall The outgoing travelers to listen, swoon and brake; This improvised stroke of excellence supreme Has beyond doubt taken the world by surprise, Caging the nightingales spell-bound perching dream To […]
I sat late in my garden last night; One rosebud opened and forgot to close; Others were still sleeping in the moon light, One fuchsia drooping down tickling the rose Whispered, «Look the face of the moon the slopes The shattered ugly spines of mountains high; All tourists went there, came back without hopes To […]
Only yesterday they were here; Padeshahs masters and slaves; Turbans disciples and bards; Sages philosophers and bards Where are they now? Sir, «I hear a fading sound», Sam said Where Sam? «Behind the door, Sir» Open the door, Sam, and call them in. «They are not there, Sir.» But how? «They are gone and gone […]
O friend, bother me not; ‘Tis said and why to explain? So be as it comes Being such be sure of the signal code, Wind wafted tapping morse on your brow Missing message have a senescent soothsayer To read the duplicate copy printed on your palm. Listen then, and learn about a presumption said Of […]
Go ye a pilgrim to Baghdad and look At the world marching to bury a world He, the tongue of wisdom in speech and book Was shot and to the grave of time was hurled Rustum, the mason of the Arab land Was carving the pillar of liberty From the firm Arabia granite by hand […]
But why had we had wars for fifteen years And self destruction to the sad extreme Through the most dreadful drive to the frontiers Of nothingness across a lethal stream The stream of blood by the sword had been made The alien sword unsheathed by a hired hand The hand that killed by alien aid […]
Decoyed by false ambition yesterday When a horrible back we have made Lost the plus minus gained and went astray Blood dripping down from the edge of the blade Sixt’en years we lived wrestling our doubts and fears Sixt’en years we lived with our acrid sorrow Sixt’en years we lived with our warmest tears Yes […]
Look up at this cloudless nightfall, sky The dream of man living the wilds of hope Limitless, bejeweled horizons tilting down Pulsers heart manner beating forms A ressau of starfish shapes, gleaming big nail tops In the blue A milky way insight spreading clouds of dust Light in the dark everywhere. And the scientist, a […]
There’s no loss equal to that of the world Common sense love conscience and sanctity That’s why the vexed unhappy gods have hurled Their wrath thoughtful of our morality No worst then the ill will reared in the chest Of nations growing pollution to bear, I cried ere long and my cries were ne’er yessed […]