Throughout my life, in things that matter I notice there has been a pattern Of living every stage at its twilight hour When you couldn’t possibly have asked for more It started with my birth in Devon On an oldeworde […]
I often dream of a hole in time And an excitement I can barely set to rhyme For a meeting with two I hold so dear My parents: who, I fancy, I might summon here Questions are burning in my […]
مزرع سبز فلک دیدم و داس ماه نو I spied the spangled field of stars And the sickle of the moon فکر از کشث خیش امد و هنگام درو Thoughts turned to the harvest of my life And to its […]
What seems like a very distant 50 years ago, a young boy stood for the very first time at the south-facing bedroom window of the Priston Mill farmhouse, gazing in wonder at the bucolic scene spread before him like a […]
Shanghai Ample shade of elm-entwined boulevards Pardons sprawling lines of cars Flanked by Shaolin temples & Starbucks In their steamy, modern marriage Contours of grand buildings etched in penciled neon Cause evening’s skyline to gently sizzle Lighting the smiles of […]
