Sonnet

Beautiful glowing yellow cactus flower!
Do you posses some terse eternal power?
Must we...

There was a complaint from a devolved nation,
a faded cricket bat from someone called Ranganathan,...

Yes we are, as dark clouds loomed on the horizon,
the things we get ourselves into as we go along;...

SOLITUDE

Greet the gentle enchanting wilderness,
Aide of the astute and honourable.
...

Gaugin went in search of the of the pure white light,
he found his ideal in France and a Tahiti...

Get your artefacts right, the snooty curator said;
my friend worked at The British Museum,...

My art included you which was beyond me,
soft curves provided incredible transient mystery;
...

They came to the marshes where the wind blew the reeds,
where the dragonflies skimmed and the heron...

Since I came down from Oxford, it was literature
and architecture which provided the adventure;...

Mary, Mary, quite contrary . . . . . .
I will bear you a son, mine as well as yours;
Henry...

Conspiring men tried to confound The Word,
To deny the legend that people had heard!
...

The music took us away to places in heaven,
so much that we would never be the same again;
we...

They threw me towards the ceiling, what a feeling,
I was knocking at life's door - now they could...

I was playing golf - the ball rebounded from a tree,
my partner was waiting for me to provide some...

They said he was a patzer, chess for below you,
if you're nice, you'll treat everyone equally, the...

Little bright rays rain down through the mountains vast array of brush and cacti,

Crisp cool air...

I sing you melodies
With hopes you remember me
Tunes of similes
Comparing your smile...