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Brian Taylor is a Poet and Philosopher who lives in Cornwall, England and the Far East.
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NOTRE DAME 2019
St DOMINIQUE VENNER (died 2013)Via Viatores Quaerit. St Augustine(The Way seeks Travellers). On Tuesday,Sanctus Dominique,May his Name be Blessed,despairing of that peace of mind men seek,awakened from the dream of his unrest,to find within the Vision of his Mental DisarrayHis … Continue reading
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Tagged Blondin, conscience, Dominique Venner, Europe, Faithful, France, Gnomonic Verses, martyr, Notre Dame, Notre Dame fire, Paris
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UNFINISHED
A face half in shadowin the gallery;sudden silenceamong the guests,candlelit at the long table below. Girlsserving sherbetin the caravanserai.Before the whirlwindin the sandstorm’s eyetears up the desert. A severed headand the black mask of the executioneron Tower Hill. Broken masts … Continue reading
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Tagged Blondin, consciousness, dream, executioner, girls, imprints, pendulum, sailors, shadows, silence, Tower Hil, unfinished, whirlwind
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COMPUTER TEMPLES
The Faith Homes of the World,Buddhist, Moslem, Christian,have acquired spiritual bolt-onsbuilt by enterprising entrepreneurswhose Collection Boxesfunnel the money into hands that have slipped in between the sheets. Thou shalt not kill.(But need-st not striveofficiously to keep alive.) Thou shalt not … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, Blondin, Buddhist, Christian, Computer, Gnomonic Verses, money, Moslem, temples, Third World Debt
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BUTTERFLY’S EGG
Nature’s miniatureopalescent crystal ball. Explore it from outside-inand your finest scientific eyesare lost in its unimaginable vastnesswhich opens onto the totality of the outer universe. Nothing can be seenby blinded scientific eyesof the everything there.For the would-be observer dissolves. Explore … Continue reading
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Tagged air, Blondin, butterfly, Centre, crystall ball, destination, education, Gnomonic Verses, living floral, Nature, scientific eyes, universal satnav
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THIS YEAR
This yearmixes spring and summer here,a sharp wind chasing baking heat.Hawthorn hangs like snow in clusterswith gorse and last year’s bracken at its feet,turning the whole cliff into an in-between season. Beyond the hillslie great fields of daffodilsbalancing organic gold … Continue reading
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Tagged Blondin, bombs, daffodils, farmers, gorse, gulls, hawthorn, jackdaws, mines, new horizon, organic gold, snow, spring
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SQUARING THE CIRCLE
How glad I amthat I am hereand not somewhere else. (If I weresomewhere else,I’d be here.) No escape, then! .
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Tagged Blondin, glad, Gnomonic Verses, here, I am, no escape
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MATTER IS DEAD
Matter is dead,dead or dying.And in it, cravingcraves its dissolution,rehearses dissolution.Expense of energyin voluntary death. Do not keep it youngor leave a creaky scream unwrung,a forbidden song unsung,a sin unsunned. A pleasure’s but a pleasure,and on pleasure’s wingsa man gets … Continue reading
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Tagged Blondin, dead, dissolution, dolphins, energy, matter, matter never matter, pleasure, sin, sirens, unsunned
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