A dream horrific of men being killed
Woke the lady though the night
Of men of old with shield and sword
On horseback in a fight
Perhaps a film seen and forgot
Was what brought these dreams
As a stranger in a land as strange
Finding it hard to settle, sleep disturbed
Left the brain within nightmares range…
And so nothing of the dreams wa [...]
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A Dream Shared Unknowingly
A dream horrific of men being killed
Woke the lady though the night
Of men of old with shield and sword
On horseback in a fight
Perhaps a film seen and forgot
Was what brought these dreams
As a stranger in a land as strange
Finding it hard to settle, sleep disturbed
Left the brain within nightmares range…
And so nothing of the dreams wa [...]
Poetry from Travels in Portugal
The Arrival
Portugal, in particular the city of Faro in the south, is a favourite haunt of mine when going abroad, the pace of life, the architecture and I’d suppose the weather all play their part.
Of course, from the Salazar years, the area also has quite a history, one with which it struggles to cope with to the present day.
My fi [...]
Just Names To Us (Tanka)
Hiroshima now
And Nagasaki as well
Just names to us
From history book we read
As if but children’s stories
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But Tales for Children Now
But tales for children now
And even then not often told
For children have no interest
In fairy tales told by the old
In a world full of Playstations
And other types of video game
Playing is not what it was
And our values are not the same.
Stupid stories that are called today
We forget times age old rule
Every story contains a moral
Understood [...]
I Heard Not
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Here Once The English Lived
Georgian Houses in Dublin
Here once the English lived
In houses of red brick grand
And after them,in tenements
The underclass, who, like the sand
Were innumerable, and everywhere
With rough accents and Gaelic names
But now are few once again here
As are the flowing sand grains.
Of Gaelic names some who live here are
But they are not of the [...]
The Dance of the Red Man
Standing still upon the hillside
Facing into the setting sun
Looking down upon the valley
Where once herds of buffalo did run…All that was before the whiteman
When the Redman knew no shame
Was as proud as anyone can
Be of their nation and their name…
But then along came the whiteman
It was a long time ago…
And since then for [...]
Some Vulgar Verse — The Saving ...
In days of old when men were bold
And chased dinosaurs with sticks
The girls fair and not so fair
Went for the dudes with the longest dicks!
And all the mediums got little
And if your manhood was small
Alas for you there was no fun
You got no women at all!
Now in time the dinosaurs got bigger
And for mankind they grew a taste
And it wasnR [...]
