Post Extravaganza
After the Finale, what is doing
after a drink. You want to go sailing.
Brief Longing
You long for her bare shoulders, her part-bare
bronzed back, and she did sashay in black, there.
Not There Today
View Temp della Concordia
Agrigento, from Villa Athena.
Through Inner Sicily
From there, once rode train to Palermo
by mountains, taking many a photo.
Gangster Duo
One stole from an outfit to buy cocaine ;
the other, to give rental boy pain.
Train Boat Coach
Post Eurostar, went Marseilles, Corsica
Sardinia then Palermo, sleeper.
Target Malta
Island hopping, but in East Sicily
the Ferry gone, end journey, sadly.
Of Daily Fury
My three loving cats are more intelligent
than the scowlers cluttering pavement.
So, Never Ever
So I never made it to Valletta,
for my mother, her favourite Harbour.
24 Hour Ferry
On the night Ferry for Genoa,
top deck, Polish girls tuned to a guitar.
Sardinia Post 9/11
For a week, there were no aircraft at all,
then high wind, Ferry jammed to Harbour wall.
Alghero Anti-NATO
Entering Cafe', The Towers falling
on screen, barmen and others were clapping.
Underwater
The Ferry stood hysterical crowded.
Sold a keel birth, I found a roof shed.
August 31st
How Dare You, Brussels
Close every border for Europa.
Use Law to machine-gun the invader.
Doom Wednesday
Golders Hill Park in the rain, rather sad
on a Wednesday, with things going bad.
Longs
Gilt been rubbed off the 10-year Gilt, leaving
buyer bereft ; Government departing.
September 1st/2nd Gilt Note
Financial Solution for Glasman
Certain groups have to be banned from breeding
to save money on their reckless feeding.
New Poland
Plus energie, confident to vibrant.
From monoculture, The Holy Spirit.
Incroyable !
Poland : visions of The Virgin Mary.
Stalin sent men to prison sanctity.
September 3rd
Autumn Browns
Flux of total collapse. The Library
table beckons, browner, a path leafy.
Apocalyptic Grey
The Tea tweed, in the Hampshire drawing room
when Singapore fell, knew the crack of doom.
The Dino Conundrum
Was God part of The Big Bang, the Dino
a late arrival. Or, our God, solo.
Illumination
A bird passing clerestory window,
on wall, lower column cast a shadow.
Promenade Concert
Vaughan Williams wrote near Shostakovitch
in 9th Symph. In 1950's : a twitch.
September 4th
Humanity Lesson
Defined by adoring music, and art ;
drum point : Picasso de Ardeche cave slant.
Creation
Did God arrive, reckoning the Planet
observed still by primordial starlight.
September 6th
Who Or What Made
The coding genetic of the Dino,
Algebra, the math formula Algo.
Bush Failing
After 9/11, not to have bombed
Mecca, given The Twin Towers entombed.
Sail Software
For Albion Naval imperative
enabling the voyage battle to live.
Not In Sight for Dr. J
The ending tight to shoulder conclusion
(in which there is none) without conclusion.
Le Style Camden
Beautiful young woman, sur bycycle,
bare shoulders and back, faint brun thigh muscle.
The Women Swoon (Tennyson)
Idylls of The King read for adjective
piquante. Sword Arthur, post the Roman give.
Tapestry War
Studying Bayeux, saw savagery
and the future of our humanity.
September 7th
No Grief
Early September sun ; life like a leaf
by crumb on a wall. Infinity, brief.
Shock
Her, I remember, in Party, my room
and vivid teen lips. Shocker news : health doom.
Confession Amantis pace Gower
There ran a hallway, down from Montmartre :
she, blonde, took me in sexual theatre.
Touching The Moon
Somewhat older, flarings of brave passion
often do not fade ; are out of fashion.
Portrait Lady
From Tom, a woman, desire buried
to arousing, careful in New England.
Prufrock Hated
Eliot wrote, in 1917
with deep war bloody sheets hard to keep clean.
AI Rampage
Well : it cannot have sex, though procreate
it would appear, and hive to agitate.
To Kenwood Estate
Not holiday, but every summer
that had ever been, in the hot vista.
Horses For Courses
A certain religion Abrahamic
sure, the product of a desert Kingdom.
Sequitur, Diem
Ce jour, nous sommes in the age of women
so, desire is for The Marian.
Enemy Within
The invader is on Talacre Green :
gaggly Negro youths, a crowd of has been.
School Is Out
Pouring into Chalk Farm Road, a vision
of Hell from Dante, with brown division.
Sept 9th/10th finis
Parallel Event
The huge walls of Byzantium were stormed
quite late until, The Twin Towers dust cloud.
Half Way House
The great in-between City, Ravenna
was for a Emperor, a Pope, safer.
Pressing Roman Problem
You cannot rhythm many a Legion
without Via Chariot taxation.
Firenze Contra
Arguably, The Renaissance, Raphael
counter The Fall of Constantinople.
Civilisation (1969)
Sadly, Kenneth Clark forgot to mention
a haunt of mine, Villa, Harold Acton.
Bad Taste Ditty
They so disapproved of Botticelli
the 'plane hijackers went kamikaze.
Unto Darkness At Noon
The grey vans are waiting, interrogation
the beginning, about your vocation.
September 11th
Rules For Living
Up vite ; aerobic, petit dejeuner ;
lire le poesie. Ave Maria.
Chapel Comprehending
With an autumnal absent of sunlight,
important, The Rosary divine light.
Camden Residency Test
A knowledge stern of T.S. Eliot,
a Mediterranean diet.
Not To Bother With
As Lowell said of Larkin : provincial
and he, rightly, was terrified of Hell.
Palermo Reviewed
Go to Palazzo Dei Normani
superpower Residence, Sicily.
Greek Agrigento
Took a coast road coach thereto ; terror
still felt, at the tumbled Temples' trauma.
September 12th
Racial Imbalance
Camden Council, undermining NATO
is guilty of treason. Therefore, must go.
Strangely
In the dull, cloudy grey light, tree, garden
look larger, more spacey than in azure noon.
Sunday Reflection
I am through with buying women, callow
marriage a prostitution. Add zero !
Rich Prize Idiot sub judice thefts
He gawp big proud driving a mauve Rolls Royce
with a feisty bimbo, strident of voice.
Corrupt Polticos
You have to learn to live within your means
and stop offering too many baked beans.
Fear Of Pater
I would not always catch the cricket ball :
butterfingers ! or sail in the squall.
Displaced Person
Father wished he was still in Germany
with power, routine made by The Army.
Mater Nostalgie
My mother mourned driving along The Rhine
to the roses of Baden Baden, pine.
Art Fate
Expected to join Lancer Cavalry
I was not forgiven my treachery.
Start Up Jamboree sub judice
However : my father did write a cheque
for me to buy a third of shares, on spec.
Herford Thinking ('50s)
The Red Russians would not raid nuclear
so they were preparing for more land war.
September 13th
Deutsche Joined NATO
A joint concern : the Enemy, greater
in Fifty five, for us, The Bundeswehr.
The Void Left
France, under attack from Jean Paul Sartre
a risk, fretted Col. Guy Long, for theatre.
A' Bientot
I have written far too many Couplets.
For them : I do not have any regrets.
Sept 14th devant en Vacances.....
Jeune Un Autre Fois
The interminable conversation
held recently, she without direction.
Art School Dance
As once noted I to Helen, this can
go on and on and for the also ran.
Culpable Sensuel
It fairly be said, by a woman young
new to me, did wonder in bed what sung.
Footnote Plus
To feel timeless, in time running out
at my desk, on tile, more than a footnote.
Statute Purification
Any anti-Credo, Jerusalem
Council to face whole life prison solemn.
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