Poems

Sonnet to my Friend – with an Identity Disc If ever I had dreamed of my dead name High in the heart of London, unsurpassed By […]

Sonnet: On Seeing a Piece of Our Heavy… Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm, Great Gun towering towards Heaven, about to curse; Sway steep […]

Spells and Incantations A vague pearl, a wan pearl You showed me once; I peered through far-gone winters Until my mind was fog-bound in that gem. […]

Spring Offensive [unfinished] Halted against the shade of a last hill, They fed, and lying easy, were at ease And, finding comfortable chests and knees, Carelessly […]

Storm His face was charged with beauty as a cloud With glimmering lightning. When it shadowed me I shook, and was uneasy as a tree That […]

Strange Meeting It seemed that out of the battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which Titanic wars had groined. […]

The Calls [unfinished] A dismal fog-hoarse siren howls at dawn. I watch the man it calls for, pushed and drawn Backwards and forwards, helpless as a […]

The Chances I mind as ‘ow the night afore that show Us five got talking, — we was in the know, “Over the top to-morrer; boys, […]

The Dead Beat He dropped, – more sullenly than wearily, Lay stupid like a cod, heavy like meat, And none of us could kick him to […]

The End After the blast of lightning from the east, The flourish of loud clouds, the Chariot throne, After the drums of time have rolled and […]