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Brian Taylor is a Poet and Philosopher who lives in Cornwall, England and the Far East.
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THE PAINTED VEIL
Millions of bubbles; bubbles, bubbles. Bubbles.Who could have thoughtso smallwould be curse of all,and source of allour troubles? Microscopic seedsencasing nuclei of fire. Each germinates and breedssubtle filaments of desire.Desire slides in and overpowers,making our best intentions fail. It weaves … Continue reading
Posted in Gnomonic Verses
Tagged Bubbles, desire, empty machine, fire, Painted Veil, seeds, silent, unseen, world
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LISTEN
What is that sound?Like the trailing of a fanthrough a silent anteroom? It is the murmur of airruffling leaves. It is the herald of the whirlwindwhich will strip those leaves from their treesand wrench the trees from the hillsideand blast … Continue reading
Posted in Blondin
Tagged baby, cascade of pearls, empty skull, eternity, fire, human, Italian garden, laughter, ruffling leaves, silent, skeleton, soldiers, sound, sun, trees, waterfall
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TREASURES ON EARTH, TREASURES IN HEAVEN
The scent of the rosefades in the dry airand the roses themselvesshrivel and fall. The Rose Garden toosuccumbs to the developerand his high-rise flatswhich brush against the sky. Red bricks give wayto changing architectural fashionor a motorwayor a bomb. And … Continue reading
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Tagged architectural fashion, becoming, crustaceans, dust, fire, giant, God, Heaven, intercosmic, poler ice, rose, Rose Garden, treasures
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POSSESSION
There is the fire that consumes and the fire that illumines. There is Desire and there is Love. Those motivated by Desire see things they wish to possess, things they do not wish to possess, and other things – of … Continue reading
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Tagged compassion, desire, Fellow Travellers, fire, fool, love, moon, pain, possession, puppet, sympathetic joy, transmutation
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POSSESSION
There is the fire that consumes and the fire that illumines. There is Desire and there is Love. Those motivated by Desire see things they wish to possess, things they do not wish to possess, and other things – of … Continue reading
SAMSARA
Wandering on. Through a waste of perils we have already faced, blown by the hot winds of desire, pursued by our own shadows, touched by the invisible fire, surrounded by supravisible foes. From waste to waste. From oasis to oasis; … Continue reading
I, ME, MINE
I, Me, Mine In the Beginning (or perhaps a little later) there was I. And then, because I was lonely, there was me. And we got on like a house on fire! And, so that we could have something in … Continue reading
