APOLOGIES TO ROBERT BROWNING
Oh, not to be in England Now that April`s here, For whoever wakes in England Sees some morning too aware The office-blocks and high-rise flats And workers in hard-hats Where no birds sing , and no tree...
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Picasso, it said. (for several years) Upon the toilet walls, is balls. He has arrived! Explicit criticism from the common man – No fooling him: he sees things as they are : Confidence tricks, to lure...
View ArticleTHE TITANIC EXHIBITION AT GREENWICH
Eighty years on , the sea disgorges treasures – Once mundane and purely functional But now a richness, redolent of a long gone lifestyle of white spats , long dresses and pince-nez. A vanished world is...
View ArticleBODYBUILDING
“It`s a Way of Life.” he told me. “Prepared to sweat and strain? Then it`s for you! You`d rather miss a meal than miss a workout? –Then you`ve arrived! Once bitten by the bug, life will revolve around...
View ArticleOLD SHIPS IN HAMBURG HARBOUR
Black and sombre on dark water The old boats ride at anchor Living out their final days. Upon the bridge , the biting wind of March Seems fitting setting in late afternoon For ghostly crews who sailed...
View ArticleFACE LIFT
“Why don`t I have a face lift?” I asked aloud. while looking at the mirror….. hoping it wouldn`t answer back As in the faery tale!. A few more years is all we want – But must be “at the top” – You...
View ArticleA VISION
Looking out over the now quiet river I can barely see the opposite shores Which fold the huge metropolis. Pier Head is somnolent now but behind Great buildings , busy streets, lie hidden From my gaze,...
View ArticleINVENTION
The greatest invention since sliced bread is: Rock and roll music, word processing And personal computers; Theories of relativity, or dynamite; Rockets to the moon. Or liberation in literature Since...
View ArticleTHE MODERN WORLD
Like a constantly changing shadow, the earth evolves; a modern world’s ephemeral in its universe, just another planet in countless billions. One only truth is yesterday, written in stone; one other is...
View ArticleINTRODUCTION
Readers might be interested in the following poetic efforts from the pen of Anthony Finlay, which claim originality and diversity of subject and treatment. Comments on them, adverse or other, would be...
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