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Brian Taylor has been a Poet and Philosopher in Cornwall, England and the Far East.
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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, footprints, GALLERY, girls, imprints, lifetime, masts and sails, pendulum, sailors, shadow, unfinished, waves, whirlwind
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PYRAMIDS AND SARCOPHAGI
Why did they spend so much time there in the anteroom of death?What could they prepare?Paper possessions as light as breath were too heavy for their dead to bear away from the fire. Why did they keep their eyeson pyramid, … Continue reading
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Tagged anteroom of death, Blondin, breath, dreams, eternity, funeral pyre, identity, monumental keepsakes, nothing, pyramids, sarcophagi, shadow, wise
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MON SEMBLABLE
Look for it, you will not find.Flee it, you cannot escape.It shines, unbidden in your mind,is both the shadow and the shape.You cannot hold, or change or lose it.You cannot welcome or refuse it.You did not make or break or … Continue reading
BLUEBOTTLE MIND
Even in all your fine regalia,hint of blue and buzzing wingall the trappings of your kind,you are far from being a substantial thing,and all your efforts end in failure. All entomic paraphernalia,proboscis, thorax, abdomen, wings that fly,six legs, antennae, multi-faceted … Continue reading
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Tagged antennae, Bluebottle mind, desire, facsimile, fly, formless, fruit, model, multi-faceted eye, pride, proboscis, sanctuary, shadow, silent hell, thought
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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 feels pain piercing and deep;often so deep that of itself it heals;a … Continue reading
