Poetry

Towering crystal walls, achingly slow
Shedding tears of ice as wept floes north flow.
In tantrums throw bergs in Antarctic moods
To drift, melt, and quench thirsty latitudes.

These are selected because I like it, or can recite it, or for some other reason.

  1. Richard Brautigan: Spiders are in the house
  2. Wendy Cope: Fireworks Poem
  3. John Donne: No man is an island
    And in Catalan.
  4. John Donne: Sweetest love I do not go
  5. John Hegley: Not very independent
  6. R D Laing: Do you love me?
  7. Mervyn Peake: I cannot give the reasons
  8. William Shakespeare: Full fathom five
Roger home
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