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Brian Taylor is a Poet and Philosopher who lives in Cornwall, England and the Far East.
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ETERNITY
Looking with dispassion,with equanimity,doesn’t it shine brighter than a thousand suns?The broken wing,the severed finger,the uncompleted life;‘the smyler with the knife’,the smell of fear,spirochaetes, viruses and germsand the ever-chewing sepulchral worms? And don’t we see a thousand times and morethat … Continue reading
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Tagged Blondin, death, dispassion, equanimity, eternal, eternity, Evermore, fear, Heaven, past, sepulchral worms
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SHADOWS
We peer into the shadowswhere yesterday’s sunlight glows,trying to capture and holdyesterday’s sunlit gold. We peer into tomorrowto predict and plotwhere that sun will likely go(but where, perhaps, it will not). Today’s sunshine still blazesits disc ever overhead.Past and future … Continue reading
IMAGES OF ETERNITY
(Dust for the Human DustBeen) The photographer has discoveredhowto change the Present into the Pastjust as fastas he can. So that his facsimiles can replacethe Present of the next man’s Now. Both the photographer and the next manwaste the treasureof … Continue reading
Posted in Gnomonic Verses
Tagged eternity, future, Gnomonic Verses, past, photographer, present, thought-created, Time
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WALK ON
Walking Onis not just a matterof feetmeasuring out the streets of this world;or the clatterof railway tracksdwindling to a pointin the far-off, backward-looking, which has now become the past. Nor is it the Ocean Linerslipping out of port,pushing through waveswhich … Continue reading
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Tagged conscience, heart, mind, New Year's Resolution, past, spirit, void, Walking on
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WHERE ARE YOU NOW?
It was different in the past.Especially in the village. Before you could readBefore there were newspapersBefore there was radioBefore there were telephonesBefore there were filmsBefore there was TVBefore there were computersBefore there were smartphonesBefore there was the endless whisperingof global … Continue reading
Posted in Gnomonic Verses
Tagged before smartphnes, computers, cyber-space, friends, future, global gossip, Hey! Mrs Robinson?, neighbours, Now, past, present, suffering, where are you?
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SEPARATISM
This flowering of the Human Spiritis a reaching outinto the empty wastelandof the egoic mindin search ofthe lost gardens of Eden. This fruitless endeavourto fill its wastelandwith memoriesof its past (My was)and thoughtsof its future (My will be) is stitched … Continue reading
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Tagged future, Garden of Eden, gentle light, Here and Now, Human Sprit, me, memories, past, peace, separatism, thought, wasteland
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ARMISTICE DAY
“Died some pro patria non dulce non et decor.” So Ezra Pound adapted Horace’s lines for those whose sufferings for their nation had bred a dull, dark, painful generation with gloria cauterised from their minds. In the calendar their deaths … Continue reading
Posted in Oxford Blues
Tagged Armistice Day, Ezra Pound, Flanders, grief, medals, November, Oxford, past, poppies, present, sacrifices
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