This is one of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s early conversation poems, first written in 1795. The address…
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The Kindness Of Strangers
This is a story of the childhood of great poet S. T. Coleridge. His father died…
Continue Reading“The Body Of God”
Here are two further “Last Poems” of D. H. Lawrence on the subject of the demiurge:…
Continue ReadingThe Imagination Of God
Shortly before D. H. Lawrence died his medical specialist stated, “an ordinary man with those lungs…
Continue Reading“Enjambment! Or would You Prefer The French Version, Sir?”
( PLEASE NOTE. Having mentioned the term “enjambement” once or twice in my last blog on…
Continue Reading“There Was A Boy”
This poem was initially written as a separate one and then was later incorporated in “The…
Continue ReadingPoppies
I love the time of year-mid May- when poppies first appear in our garden. I remember…
Continue ReadingGood Friday
"The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we…
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