Category: Language
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Poems for the Wall
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I haven’t mentioned this project here for a while. I started it over twenty years ago, now. Both of the following two statements are true : it remains what it has always been – very much a one-man-band ; but also, and from the beginning, it has received help and support from a wide range…
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Four New Poems
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1/ ‘In the Cathedral‘ is in 5 short parts. 2/ ‘Word-Finding‘ is in 5 short parts. 3/ ‘Dancing in a Daze’ is of 1 part, but there are ‘notes’ overleaf. 4/ ‘Rowing‘ is of one part. I seem to have stopped spluttering helplessly and hopelessly in prose, in response to present-day developments within… continue…
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Notes : The Parrot has been speechless for quite a while now. But in the fairly recent past, leading up to the UK Brexit vote, this bird in a cage had quite a lot to say. See Parrot-Addenda-distilled-2.pdf (roganwolf.com) The Parrot is an old friend of mine, borrowed from John Skelton, a poet in…
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September 6th was, of course, the date on which Mr Johnson stood down as prime minister of the UK. On the other hand, the poem (in its two parts) might be described as a celebration of adolescence, a developmental stage in which the growing human being discovers and explores self, its wonders, its powers and…
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Unworthiness Amok at Number Ten
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After a week-end of celebration in praise of an honourable Queen, we in the UK are now entering a week which might prove quite troublesome for a dishonourable Prime Minister. He, his allies and their works remind me of a sentence on the back of a novel called “The Possessed” by Fyodor Dostoevsky : “The…