Myth

Beneath the shroud of that reflective pall,
The final sail retreats to dusk’s dismay –
The...

A course is set to dam the Völsung’s blood
Beneath that laughing dancer’s shaded gleam
Where...

They now make love beneath a dancing star
Then bask (encircled) on the flame-ringed height.
...

...for my Lorna

Her eyes awake to greet the laughing sun
His heart recoils ~ rejoinder to...

. ..for my Lorna

Not given to a long and slow decline
Amidst the fiery mountain’s living...

As wood-bird sings the ravens’ longed-for end
Where thought and memory, strength and wisdom meet...

In time they part ~ one falls, the other stands
The dual natures of this elder-god
From...

Within that darkened cave where Fafnir waits
(Corrupted subject sprawled across the hoard)
A...

As wind-song whispers secrets through the leaves
And Odin’s ravens counter one another
A...

If believin is a sin
then thank the fairy folk
she believed in.....

Treasures beyond...

I'd take the black gamblers hat,
with a life like that.
In 1930's Chicago, seen a man
...

“Hello Hello,” he said to her silhouette

The beautiful one he was thankful that he met.

It...

A man defined by fell and deadly deeds
Yet tame enough to tame so fell a beast
To violently...

I blame the mountains for my lack of skill
In finding and defining Euclid’s lines:-
For...

Had I a hero’s steel-distempered stare
and not a daunted gaze perturbed by mote
Would I be...

meditation on a theme by Wagner

each step is one step closer to your touch
each quickened...

Breaking the Gaze
a sonnet; for my love

Protruding cold-stone spears of aching need
...