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Brian Taylor has been a Poet and Philosopher in Cornwall, England and the Far East.
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JUNE
A dry Juneand roses and honeysuckletumble in riotous flowerdown the path, below the gate,in anticipation of drought. They rush slowly(keeping vegetable time)towards the battlefieldof fern and bramblewhich flows,inconclusively,to the cliff edge.Beyond, the sea. The mind takes on the colourof what … Continue reading
Posted in Blondin
Tagged Blondin, cosmic dance, dance of the mind, eternity, jasmine, June, mind, palm trees, roses, sea, Tiger, void, wake
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WIND BLOWS
Wind blows;a thousand drops of water fly out into spaceeach drop a perfectly cohesive separateness.Wind falls. Each drop sinks into the ocean. Indistinguishable from the sea. Christians and Moslems do not have individual souls.Their separateness is leased from the Inseparable … Continue reading
Posted in Gnomonic Verses
Tagged angels, Christians, ecstasy, indistinguishable, Indivisible, inseparable, Moslems, ocean, sea, separateness, whole, wind blows
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CUT INTO THE HUMAN WOOD
Cut into the human woodchop; pare;to find what is already there.Will the knife revealwhat we have outgrown?Or does the sculptor feelalong the veins and in the bonethe shape already in the stoneand gently, where the stone is brittle,cut only not … Continue reading
Posted in Blondin
Tagged Blondin, by birds rejected, chop, favourite picture, human wood, not too much, nothing, sculptor, sea, sky, veins
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MIRROR
Swimming in a Cornish sea –Porpoises! (not Cornish), a little way from me.How far?How far from splashing foot to streamlined tail? Following the brain down its mazy trail –thirty yards? a million years?Too far? Not far enough? But eye to … Continue reading
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Tagged brain, Cornish sea, grain of sand, inner eye, me, million years, mirror, porpoises, sea, spinning star, splashing, wave, you
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BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
Super-talented children play on the eternal beach, building castles and cities and civilisations and worlds, anything, everything they want; and try to keep all and each out of everyone else’s reach. Dancing around hand in hand, they themselves are powdered … Continue reading
Posted in Bamboo Leaves
Tagged beautiful, castles, civilisations, dancing, eternal, sea, sun, worlds
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