soundofmanywaters

 Epistemological Breakdown, Law and Liberty, Perspectives Epistemological Breakdown Somewhere in the great nowhere Which is mostly where we live now Hear silent thunder, watch the dark flashes Of our war upon our minds. From the freezing North Blizzards of research papers bear Proofs that there can never be anyone At home to read them. From fecund southern jungles Simian hoots and squeals blare Out the triumph of unreason In the strangling dark. Between gibberish and prose Poets have nothing to say So we let off a few fireworks To defy the void. There was once a healer Who presided at the wedding Of soul and substance, word and world But we sacked him. Broken homes bring banishment. We tramp the streets of ransacked cities Littered with scribbled papers, Hooted and haunted. Law and Liberty Symbol of Rolling liberty This wave’s exact curl And dash upon the shore Is no stampede of freedom: Or deeper where the shark Slides silent in the water His fanged tyranny Has not the sea’s licen...

Beauty like a stranger The nightingale's song is a rip in the sullen Stuff that seals our ears The starlight stabs through Cloying custom that curtains Delight from our eyes The love of neighbour A ram battering blockades Around hardened hearts. Come like a stranger Nightingale, starlight, neighbour Sing and shine and love. Happisburgh   That house is gone now That clung to the cliff Over the North Sea's gnawing. There was a lane here, tremulous With goldfinches, their coloratura Gone to join the long drowned church, the lost voices of children and bells. Rustling or roaring, Joan, The sea sounds always called to you And now in the ocean's endless rolling You too are far out under wave. Handsworth Hill: Autumn Many leaves decaying on the tree many shades of yellow, green and bronze many shakings in the shivering  breeze As the breeze to these leaves so the leaves to the steady tree so the tree to the hillside the hill to the earth the earth to the mind of the One. The breez...