Homage for A Mother Has one of us his strength more nobly spent Than she who safeguards one whom God has sent And rather than to honours men can give Attains to help this lesser wight to live And service intimate and dearly bought Imparts to progeny whose pow’r cannot Remunerate or e’er to her […]
Category Archives: Poetry
From the Undercroft
(originally posted 9 Oct 2011 in Kingdom of Horror vol. 7: Poetry) (in anapestic tetrameter: ––+––+––+––+) Late a breath stirs from deep in the chill undercroft But say who, after dusk, could make breath so to waft? Eft a scratch sounds, a rasp, then a shamble-ing tread Which each scatters to echoes ‘mid rows of […]
The escort: a poem
I just finished the first draft of the following poem, on which I’ve been working for the last few weeks. The escort I’ve hungered since I first laid eyes Upon thy malice, lusts, and lies To let my scythe blade fall betimes And put an end to all thy crimes, But patience infinite did stay […]