Posts tagged with "war"

Pilgrim River

Pilgrim River

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

November 28, 2023

How mighty flows this pilgrim river,A rush of seeking hearts traversingLife and fate with just a mur

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Cacophonous Hours

Cacophonous Hours

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

November 27, 2023

A drab dawn unveiled a sleepy azure,Sharp the ruse to keep me unpreparedFor the hours cacophonous be

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Ant

Ant

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

November 20, 2023

How cheery is the assiduous antBearing its single grain of labour,Weaving its way like motioned-artB

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First Cell

First Cell

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

November 18, 2023

Who shall know the grim onslaughtFrom aimless hours that besiege,The mind is cleaved from thoughtAnd

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O Fire

O Fire

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

November 14, 2023

O Fire, poet primordial with pristine speech,Shepherding sacred words through mind and heartTo the k

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This I Can Give

This I Can Give

Sonnet — A Prayer to The Mother, on Day 4 of Navratri

March 25, 2023

I can bring Thee not the speech all noble,The well-wrought grammar and high metreFavoured by proud a

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Spare Thee

Spare Thee

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

March 17, 2023

Make me no more chronicler of Thy cycles,Standing on a turret within and watchingThe drama of siege

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I Know Not

I Know Not

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

March 13, 2023

Did I spurn Thee in some lives pastReclining haughty on a seat of hubris,Overlooked Thy urgings in s

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Halt Now

Halt Now

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

March 11, 2023

Halt now Beloved, be relieved from harsh pursuit,Chase no more through the hundred roadsMy labouring

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Unequal Passions

Unequal Passions

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

March 8, 2023

A precipitous fall into the fields of beingThrough jagged channels of mortal birth,To emerge helples

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Hush Now

Hush Now

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

March 2, 2023

Hush now then O hungry beak,Here is heartflesh for thy hungerRich with the wine-red fervourStewed fi

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All The Parts

All The Parts

Poem — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

February 18, 2023

What is a shepherd without a lute,Counting kine on lonely pastures,Warding boredom and wolvesFor bre

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Beware!

Beware!

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

February 17, 2023

It is Thee, it is Thee who hast stolen my melody,My song-tongue now lies wedded to silenceAnd savour

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None Can

None Can

Poem — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

December 17, 2022

Oh I have despaired at Thy building spree,The many hells Thou hast planted in dream and reverie,My w

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Am Stung

Am Stung

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

November 19, 2022

My virtues were brief and vices enduringThe tumult of my deeds sowed ruinous seeds,From earth clime

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Pitiful Ghost

Pitiful Ghost

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

July 21, 2022

What use to Thee am I as a lifeless ghostShorn of vitals, stripped of senses five,Of conscious mind

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Only A Dreamer

Only A Dreamer

Poem — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

July 4, 2022

Such fine heroes bred I, each mighty and fine tunedTo the brutal rigours of an unfinished globe,Each

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Ransom

Ransom

Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

June 20, 2022

I bore Thee the first-born thought of the dayFrom the mind that endured passage of night,So must the

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I Enlist Thee

I Enlist Thee

Poem — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works

June 19, 2022

“Thinkest thou this earth a pleasure grove for wanderings,A lilly filled pool for lazy dreaming love

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Dream Twilight

Dream Twilight

Sonnet — An Invocation To The Master

May 30, 2022

Into a dream twilight I slipped and fellSeated on an edge of awareness,How long I wandered therein I

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O Soul

O Soul

Poem — An Invocation To The Master

May 25, 2022

What hope for thee dear soul marooned hereOn an island patch of awareness amidstThis baffling ocean

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