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Brian Taylor has been a Poet and Philosopher in Cornwall, England and the Far East.
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MIDSUMMER DREAM
I dreamed of Paradise Garden;sunlight sliding downfrom an infinite skythrough cedar trees to emerald lawns;oriental poppies six feet high,Indian butterflies gliding bythrough multilayered shades of blue.Olympian Apollo’s statueholds a fountain in his hands,which swirls and mists, sparkles and cools,cascading down … Continue reading
Posted in Bamboo Leaves
Tagged Bamboo Leaves, dream, eagles, fountain, free!, Indian butterflies, midsummer, oriental poppies, Paradise Garden, prison, silver sands, solitude, song birds, sunlight, world
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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
Posted in Blondin
Tagged Blondin, dead, future, gold, ight, land of the dead, past, predict, Remember the Light, shadows, sunlight, sunshine, tomorrow
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ORPHEUS IN EXTREMIS
He turned his back on the graveyardand with the sad songshe had taken downinto the stiff clay of the underworldlike root-fingersstill singing in his ears,walked towards the future. Before him floatedher death mask,warmed by the pale fireof yesterday’s desire. Fire … Continue reading
Posted in Blondin
Tagged Blondin, Brian Taylor, death mask, fingers of her mind, fire, forgetfullnes, fountain, garden of Proserpine, graveyard, nothingness, Orpheus, purpose, sunlight, underworld, Villa Rosa
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PURITY
In the dark tabernacle,a shaft of sunlightillumines the heartand shines througha million years of dust. Clouds and clouds of swirlingdustspirallingthrough the lightwhich spills in a golden poolon damp, grey stone and iron rust. When the light movesit does not take … Continue reading
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Tagged Blondin, darkness, golden pool, growing older, heart, illusion, purity, sunlight
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