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Brian Taylor has been a Poet and Philosopher in Cornwall, England and the Far East.
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PERMANENT CURE
Flaws upon a face;each indicate a placewhere pain and sorrow grewas an eddy of death-in-life flowed through. Monitor the mindthat scatters the leaves the wind destroyed.Monitor the mindthat blows its dead selves through the Void. Each imperfectionis a recollectionof where … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Taylor, cure, dazzling dark, death-in-life, imperfection, mind, mirror, pain, sorrow, void
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KATHLEEN
‘Going out there is no other,coming back there is no trace’.Love and care for one another,smooth the sadness from her face. Like Orestes how she travels!Light-foot ever, onward roams;as the skein of life unravels,everywhere she makes her homes. Loves she … Continue reading
Posted in Oxford Blues
Tagged Eurydice, grass blade to her star, Kathleen, king of Shades, Life, love, Orestes, Orpheus, Oxford Blues, pain, Pluto, sadness, smile, sunshine, travel
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DEEP DOWN TO DEATH
Deep down to deathwith every breathand not one morefor any faith. His skin has lost a glossy look.He only feels his single painand waits for nothingto come back again. .
REQUIEM: ARMISTICE DAY
This yearthe dead are blindand do not seem to hearour prayers.Nor do they seem to mindthat we now ownwhat they once thought was theirs. Herethey shed no tearat all the painthey left behind. Now,when they come again,they only findechoes of … Continue reading
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Tagged Armistice Day, dead, deserted buildings, empty, lonely, long-ago, pain, prayers, requiem, tears, unpeopled streets
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NORMAL
Pain is in proportion to livingness.The more alive you are,the more it hurtsto live.This is normal. The young hurt mostbut mend quickest.New flesh healswhere old flesh withers.Young mind feelspain piercing and deep;often so deep that of itself it heals;a child … Continue reading
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Tagged alive, all is for the Norm, Blondin, clinging, eternal singing, grasping, heals, heart, letting go, new flesh, Normal, normal world, normality, old flesh, pain, pain shines through, prophet, shadow
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EXCUSES
In the pursuit of pleasure(or the relief of pain),they abuse their leisureand then return to work again. In the pool when the water is cleara thousand activities appear;a network of looking, seeing, willing;of turning, diving, chasing, catching, killing. Nowhere is … Continue reading
Posted in Gnomonic Verses
Tagged activities, bright and clear, excuses, Gnomonic Verses, hide, I, leisure, looking, My, network, Nowhere, pain, pleasure, seeeing, wind of words, work
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BLACK MAGIC…
…A flowering of the human spiritin which Evil torments and exploitsas much of Creation as it can reach. …A development of Freedom To,when the corner stone of Ethics is discarded, that proliferates and insinuatesto as near Absolute Power as it … Continue reading
Posted in Gnomonic Verses
Tagged Absolute Power, Black Magic, creation, Ethics, evil, Freedom to, Living spirit, materialism, matter, pain, vivisection
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VIEWPOINTS
At Tha Thua they sweat,eat ice, jump in river.At Whitsands we’re wet,wear coats and just shiver. At noon, garlic toast is a must.Half-an-hour later it tastes just like dust. Our viewpoints change to meet new dataas smart clothes adjust to … Continue reading
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Tagged Blondin, dog with mange, garlic toast, hot sun, pain, pleasure, survive, viewpoints
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