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Mask

Why do you ask

If I wear a mask?

Do you suppose my expression benign

Conceals some hideous crime?

Look in the glass

And rather ask

About your own mask.

Put away the stones

For bones

Are brittle

And friend’s opinions fickle

As the witches in Macbeth

Who promise much, then leave him bereft.

Refugees

A checkout girl young and sweet

The thought of refugees almost makes me weep.

She speaks of her car

I ponder on those who have travelled far.

She is at university

While others face adversity.

A kind hearted girl

Do thoughts whirl

Through her head

Of the suffering and the dead?

Just an ordinary morning shopping,

Nothing shocking.

Mountaineering

Beautiful mountains, their peaks pointing to the sky.

I would die

for the chance to climb

That track sublime.

Would that I could sally

Into the verdant valley

That nessles between

Those hills green.

Oh to drink from the life giving stream,

Which does flow

Where few may go.

I can but dream.

Revolution By A E Housman

West and away the wheels of darkness roll,

Day’s beamy banner up the east is borne,

Spectres and fears, the nightmare and her foal,

Drown in the golden deluge of the morn.

But over sea and continent from sight

Safe to the Indies has the earth conveyed

The vast and moon-eclipsing cone of night,

Her towering foolscap of eternal shade.

See, in mid heaven the sun is mounted; hark,

The belfries tingle to the noonday chime.

‘Tis silent, and the subterranean dark

Has crossed the nadir, and begins to climb.

Looking Inside

Don’t look into another’s mind
For you may find
A fiend
Who stalks your dream.
You may discern a hole
Where the soul
Should be.
Perhaps it is better you can not see.
Do you possess the art
To look into your own heart?
To confront the demons who scheme
And haunt your dream?
The countenance pleasant may seem
But what goes on behind the screen?

A 4 Star Review Of My Book “The Girl Who Wasn’t There And Other Poems”

Thank you to Kevin Cooper for reviewing my recently released collection of poetry, “The Girl Who Wasn’t There And Other Poems”. For the review please visit the following link, (http://kevs-domain.net/2015/09/30/the-girl-who-wasnt-there-by-kevin-morris/).

5 Star Treatment Of My Book “Dalliance; A Collection Of Poetry And Prose”

Many thanks to Sally Cronin for featuring my book, “Dalliance; A Collection Of Poetry And Prose” on her blog. For Sally’s 5 Star Treatment of “Dalliance” please visit the following link, https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/five-star-review-dalliance-by-kevin-morris/.

 

Kevin