The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

[This was my entry for this year's Passage Prize . Didn't get short listed this time, which either means my poetry is getting worse,...

[ Editorial Note: I wanted to risk trying something unusual for this blog. This poem was written as my submission for Lomez 's excellent...

Making this a double dose of Hal G.P. Colebatch, if there has been a better poem title than: 'Observing a thong-shod pedestrian's ...

From 30,000 feet in the air, the early evening displays a curious inversion of light. The ground beneath me is a dark purplish grey. I somet...

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Ben...

Apropos nothing, the great G. K. Chesterton, on Don John of Austria at the Battle of Lepanto : Lepanto White founts falling in the cour...

Apropos nothing, the great Robert Graves : Despite and Still Have you not read The words in my head, And I made part Of your own heart? ...

Pity us Beside the sea On the sands So briefly According to the obituary for him in The Economist, he wrote this poem on the sands of an...