Pablo
Tropical flowers
and hazy girls
from Valparaiso
drift golden –
like promises
on the edge
of utterance
so almost there
lips open
expecting sound –
instead a petal
drops and hair
tosses like a sigh.
- Catherine Skipper
Sword swallower,
words wallower
swallows words,
allows war.
War reworded,
rewards the sword,
words of war,
wards of war dead.
Warrior kings
working at war,
worrier kings
sinking, singing,
music making,
amusing the muse
at war.
War of words awarded,
make music, not war.
- Rosalind Flatman
Looking about
I perceived above
and below
a new terror
affected me
a dreadful doom
affected me
All fools are poets
All poets are fools
- Adrian Spry
These windows
whose colour varied
were stained glass
fantastic influences
in blue and gold
grotesques
and blood-coloured
panes.
- Adrian Spry
