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The photo below is of my first childhood house at Waterview, via South Grafton. It was taken several decades after my time spent there within the bosom of my first family. It is the inspiration for the poem, below, which is probably my best.
Poetry is not my most practised genre, but I have been told that my prose writing is poetic and rhyth...
Auguries of Innocence
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
The Robin Red Breast
A Robin Red breast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
A dove house fill’d with doves & Pigeons
...
MECHTHILD OF MADGEBURG: 1207-1282
Of all that God has shown me
I can speak just the smallest word,
No more than a honeybee
Takes on his foot
From an overspilling jar
RUMI: 1207: Verse 1 Lift Now the Lid
Lift now the lid of the jar of heaven
Pour cupbearers, the wine of the invisible,
The name and sign of what has no sign!
Pour...