who built into Adam
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When stillness
there was no needto greet youand when you leftand stillness stayedthere was no needto say goodbye.
Do cats dream of lions,
Do cats dream of leopards,and sheep dream of shepherds?
Faith; hope; and loving-kindness;
all these await in human natureas inclinations that are natural;to be awakened by the gracethat ever waits within us:as these arise, faith takes the precedence;then follows, hope; itself precedesthe love, the charity, the loving-kindness;yet if alas, disorder, dissolution intervene,first, love is lost; then hope;and last of all goes faith;yet, when these come into their perfection,greatest…
Before dementia, with its cruel mercy
of obligations and relationships(the chilling question, and so carefully expressedduring the morning wash and powdering,‘are we… related…?)she’d carefully destroyedall the photos of her family;while leaving all her husband’s…what did that mean, to that so loving daughter…?What shames can those who love, so cherishas some further goad?But she forgot, now that she slept downstairsthe photo of…
War under a summer sun
in, we may hope, the angel kissof death, friend of heroic human nature.We who live on may count the loss: girl,home and love, hope and music,sex; rain; all the schoolof life. He, not.(This ‘poem’ contains the 21 most hit key words on this site – see poet page.)
Within themselves, they hold
they are the unsung heroes of the peacewhich clutches at the coat-tails of a war;and we can never truly know them;only offer them love, support, respect…My first school had been an officers’ recuperation hospitalor final hospice for the wounded – in their body or their mind –in the 1914-18 war; nowthe dignified head doctor of…