Days of grace

Titel: Days of grace : selected poems
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Veröffentlicht: Hexham : Bloodaxe Books, 2018
Umfang: 125 Seiten
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9781780371597
  • Foreword
  • p. 11
  • Pass Of Silence
  • The Calling
  • p. 15
  • 'Every day...'
  • p. 16
  • 'If you speak only once...'
  • p. 17
  • 'If I do not speak of this...'
  • p. 18
  • 'Don't call. Don't ask...'
  • p. 19
  • 'In a nightlit room the air blooms...'
  • p. 20
  • 'A paw extends in the dark...'
  • p. 21
  • 'My hair grows up through the ceiling...'
  • p. 22
  • 'I call you and I sense that you call me...'
  • p. 23
  • 'No, this light will not fade...'
  • p. 24
  • 'Through life flies a stone of death...'
  • p. 25
  • 'Life has no story...'
  • p. 26
  • 'When I write...'
  • p. 27
  • 'The future is going on now...'
  • p. 28
  • 'Something exploded: was it a bomb...'
  • p. 29
  • 'To breathe out...'
  • p. 30
  • 'The world is the answer...'
  • p. 31
  • 'God occurs...'
  • p. 32
  • 'What is man...'
  • p. 33
  • 'Pure goodness burns like acid...'
  • p. 34
  • 'You shall not...'
  • p. 35
  • 'Middle-aged and overweight...'
  • p. 36
  • 'Three in the cave...'
  • p. 37
  • 'When the fear of death looms large...'
  • p. 38
  • 'Grey matter and dark matter...'
  • p. 39
  • 'You are no better than anyone...'
  • p. 40
  • 'On behalf of all...'
  • p. 41
  • 'I sing in praise of the loser...'
  • p. 42
  • 'When no matter how you ask...'
  • p. 43
  • 'Nothing else have I asked, nor will I...'
  • p. 44
  • 'All you need will come your way...'
  • p. 45
  • 'Nothing is happening. Just stars circling...'
  • p. 46
  • 'To live more clearly...'
  • p. 48
  • 'My load I now give away...
  • p. 49
  • Clouds' Letter to the Sand
  • 'Observing the rainbowing world...'
  • p. 53
  • 'Go on then, sun...'
  • p. 54
  • 'A house by the sea...'
  • p. 55
  • 'All that is is utterable...'
  • p. 56
  • 'Stark and scant is the nordic light...'
  • p. 57
  • 'Tomorrow is the light of all...'
  • p. 58
  • 'I lingered long by the sea...'
  • p. 59
  • 'The vivid display of life flows on...'
  • p. 60
  • 'Clouds' letter to the sand...'
  • p. 61
  • 'Who lives in light never wanes...'
  • p. 62
  • The scalpel and the metronome...'
  • p. 63
  • 'Chant the mantra, mandragora...'
  • p. 64
  • 'Love treads a quicksilver path...'
  • p. 65
  • 'You ceased to be a miracle...'
  • p. 66
  • 'To make a human life visible...'
  • p. 67
  • 'Bird spell opens the bashful bloom, of day...'
  • p. 68
  • 'With a feather in the sand, a flowering branch in the air...'
  • p. 69
  • 'I am your land...'
  • p. 70
  • 'Days dissolve like sugar lumps...'
  • p. 71
  • 'No will to do aught...'
  • p. 72
  • 'The gentlest m you is sheltered in me...'
  • p. 73
  • 'You open me up like a tome treasured...'
  • p. 74
  • 'And I love you...'
  • p. 75
  • 'And the bells tolled; July's glory...'
  • p. 76
  • 'If autumn is endured...'
  • p. 77
  • The Visitor
  • p. 78
  • No other or better world will come...'
  • p. 79
  • 'In the house I was passing a phone rang...'
  • p. 80
  • 'Wherever I set foot, you...'
  • p. 81
  • 'What is not and yet is...'
  • p. 82
  • 'Life will become eternity...'
  • p. 83
  • 'A ship with hoisted sails...'
  • p. 84
  • 'Light, light is the ship that ferries...'
  • p. 85
  • Leeward Into The Light
  • 'I dreamt about the world...'
  • p. 89
  • 'I had a dream that Satan spoke...'
  • p. 91
  • 'Shadow-like you move among the shades...'
  • p. 92
  • 'I slept the sleep of minerals...'
  • p. 93
  • 'The world as pleasure and pain...'
  • p. 94
  • 'Stay uncut crystal...'
  • p. 95
  • 'Two...'
  • p. 96
  • 'Through the mist-dark park...'
  • p. 97
  • 'Life and dream - leaves...'
  • p. 98
  • 'I went to visit the world...'
  • p. 99
  • 'The world slips the mind, mutates and melts...'
  • p. 100
  • 'Now it has come; what you call autumn...'
  • p. 101
  • 'All seems so clear in September...'
  • p. 102
  • The husk of home houses two worlds...'
  • p. 103
  • 'Rain, are you still rain...'
  • p. 104
  • 'Snow is a blank sheet...'
  • p. 105
  • 'Dauntless, defenceless...'
  • p. 106
  • 'Do not fear, do not worry...'
  • p. 107
  • 'She never thinks about money...'
  • p. 108
  • 'Some words are precious as stones...'
  • p. 109
  • 'If you long for the sea...'
  • p. 110
  • 'I watch my hand in the flowing water...'
  • p. 111
  • 'Whatever you get...'
  • p. 112
  • 'Stepping out of the church porch...'
  • p. 113
  • 'Between the dead and the living...'
  • p. 114
  • 'A stairway, a sky snail-shell...'
  • p. 115
  • Lesson in Harmony
  • p. 119
  • Biographical Notes
  • p. 125