Roland John Poems
- 1. Venus Rising
We were talking
into the night
of the sea
and our beginning there
... - 2. Piano Lesson
A melody and you expressing it,
your life evolving to an end, where
dark metres drift unheard
... - 3. Mirrors
We dress for mirrors,
distance purpose, as we pause
apprehensive before the glass
lest it reflect a pose.
... - 4. Landfall
The lake placid: how many times have
I watched it pitch out there? Isolated,
a perfection in its slow moving glacis.
... - 5. Francesca Da Rimini
They say I loved
but that's untrue,
matters of state
bound me;
... - 6. Cornish Study Iii
They found him, as predicted, in the cove
three days it took for the Atlantic
to spout him up and leave him back
as he was in life, washed out and finished.
... - 7. Bedside Vigil
Listening as your last breath hovers
the despairing exodus we all enter,
of lost dreams, remorse's murmur
recalling sharply an accustomed life.
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