Miscellaneous Poems

By marandina

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Just Another War

By marandina on Tue, 03 Jan 2006

How can we possibly imagine? ---------------------------------------- I look out of the window to see a sun shine, My children in a library, a million books define, An accumulation of knowledge, an acknowledgement to men,
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A Working Complaint

By marandina on Sun, 15 Jan 2006

It's been a hard day's night, And I've been working like a dog,
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At the Going Down of The Sun

By marandina on Wed, 15 Feb 2006

I looked back at a crowded celluloid, I was a nameless actor just for a few moments,
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Picturedrome

By marandina on Tue, 03 Nov 2020

Audio version at: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/C9Ai1 Celluloid dreams, electric sheep, Talkies from the 40s, Silent movie nostalgia, Art imitating...
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Radio Times

By marandina on Wed, 02 Dec 2020

A polyphonic spectrum of melody and sound, a rhapsody of composition, a toccata in fugue. Aural symphony, timpani, Marconi’s dream retold, Wireless...
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Hibernal Solstice

By marandina on Wed, 16 Dec 2020

Dark winter dawn broken by shards of sunlight beckoning the shortest day. A diurnal heraldry calling Jupiter and Saturn, a Christmas star forged by...
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Christmas Time

By marandina on Sun, 20 Dec 2020

Silent reflections of latter day Saints, Kings and martyrs in Christian lore. Magi bearing gifts, led by a star, instructed by Herod, malevolence...
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Eleanor Cross

By marandina on Tue, 05 Jan 2021

Eleanor, highborn of Castile, favoured daughter of Ferdinand, beloved, revered Queen to Albion’s powerhouse: The Longshanks. Noble monarch, woman of...
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A Secret Forest

By marandina on Thu, 28 Jan 2021

We landed at Marco Polo, Azzurri gateway to the North, clutching passports we passed bleary-eyed through mundane border checks, as luggage rolled...
Travel
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Mehtab Bagh (Moonlight Garden)

By marandina on Mon, 08 Feb 2021

We met on the mezzanine, lobby of splendour and gold, our bearded, mystic Hindu guide, spirited tourists into seats. Passed meandering, sacred cows,...
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Forgotten Souls

By marandina on Wed, 24 Feb 2021

I see you late at night, as daylight’s candle flickers out, empyrean canvas painted black, stars of alabaster speak in hushed tones. Moonlight beams...
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New Amsterdam

By marandina on Wed, 03 Mar 2021

Our electric train glided to a stop, humanity spilled onto waiting platforms, worn stairs signposted sidewalk Heaven, steam rose from polluted Subway...
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Black Holes and Revelations

By marandina on Wed, 10 Mar 2021

Virgin light skimmed a newborn sky, shards shimmered, brokered a diurnal vista, an eternal journey fired once more, beatific beams embarked on their...
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Vernal Equinox

By marandina on Tue, 16 Mar 2021

Winter shuffled its weary feet, stoical snowdrops bowed ivory heads, crocuses broke free from frozen earth, as daffodils and tulips sprang into new...
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The Last Time I Saw Fungie (2005)

By marandina on Thu, 25 Mar 2021

Cumulus clouds rolled across Celtic, Irish skies, white horses crested cyan waves - chopped, rose and fell, a streaming wake trailed, leading back to...
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The Riot of Spring (Pictures of Pagan Russia 1913)

By marandina on Wed, 07 Apr 2021

This week marks the 50 th anniversary of the death of Igor Stravinsky (17 th June 1882 – 6 th April 1971) Audio version at Soundcloud https://...
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Setting Sons

By marandina on Wed, 14 Apr 2021

I have seen the spectral darkness, quiescent corridors where emotions quietly dissipate. I have been in the unlit, silent void, a vale of tears where...
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Footsteps on Mars

By marandina on Tue, 27 Apr 2021

In the dead of an iridescent moonlit night, in an amphitheatre of curious crickets, chirping in the rattling reed bush, I am camped under a haven of...
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The Last Elephant

By marandina on Wed, 12 May 2021

Forged in bucolic harmonies, an interdependence born of millennia, a symbiosis of flora and fauna, when humanity lived as one, in a world of...
Nature
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Roy Batty (Tears in Rain)

By marandina on Tue, 01 Jun 2021

This is a tribute to Roy Batty played by the late Rutger Hauer from one of my favourite movies - Blade Runner (1982) https://bladerunner.fandom.com/...
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Cherry Tree

By marandina on Tue, 15 Jun 2021

Dedicated to the cherry tree in my front garden. It brings me much joy. Audio version at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/cherry-tree-mp3 In the...
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Estival Solstice

By marandina on Mon, 21 Jun 2021

21 st June 2021 is the day of the Summer Solstice As dawn’s first light skims skies, revealing an incandescent ball of fire, rising beyond a Heel...
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Where The Streets Have No Blame

By marandina on Tue, 06 Jul 2021

I pass you on the desolate streets, huddled under weather-worn blankets, in dimly lit, dank shop doorways, the smell of wandering urine is acidic,...
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Penalties

By marandina on Tue, 13 Jul 2021

On 11 th July 2021 the England Football team lost on penalties to Italy after a 1-1 draw having played extra time in the Final of the Euro2020...
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Another Night On a Bare Mountain

By marandina on Tue, 20 Jul 2021

Night on a Bare Mountain (aka Night on Bald Mountain) is a series of compositions written by composer Modest Mussorgsky (1839 – 1881). It was only...
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Dreams of Rain

By marandina on Sun, 01 Aug 2021

A wind-swept, seeping rain dances on bedroom windows, houses opposite obscured – streets are empty, twilight gloom broken by neon street lamps –...
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Saccades of Sands

By marandina on Tue, 03 Aug 2021

A clicking camera shutter, perpetual saccades, capturing fleeting moments that mark epochs, littered in sentiment and seminal occasions,...
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Leaving Home

By marandina on Tue, 17 Aug 2021

Rain falls as drizzle – recalcitrant, obstinate, framing a doorway filled by fretful parents, staring into a no man’s land of sadness, one last,...
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Kabul Airport

By marandina on Tue, 24 Aug 2021

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-asia/afghanistan-latest-kabul-a... https://www.fr24news.com/a/2021/08/children-orphaned-as-their-parents-cr...
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Ballerina Toy Box

By marandina on Sun, 29 Aug 2021

The boundary between the real and imagined world can be a thin veil Daylight fades, an ethereal twilight descends, I turn the key, music tinkles like...
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Autumn

By marandina on Sun, 19 Sep 2021

Autumn The Harvest Moon will reach peak illumination on Monday, September 20 The Autumn Equinox is on Wednesday 22 nd September 2021 Moonlight lunar...
Nature
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Giant Redwoods

By marandina on Thu, 23 Sep 2021

Audio version at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/giant-redwoods-mp3 Shafts of silver light cascade at twilight, a canopy bordering an evening...
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Samhain and Beyond

By marandina on Tue, 19 Oct 2021

Audio version at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/samhain-and-beyond-revised-mp3 Samhain and Beyond We stand in hallowed doorways, hand in hand,...
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Dreams of Halloween

By marandina on Tue, 26 Oct 2021

Audio version at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/dreams-of-halloween-mp3 Dreams of Halloween In celluloid dreams I walk in graveyards of the...
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When November Comes (with audio)

By marandina on Tue, 16 Nov 2021

Audio version at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/when-november-comes-mp3 When November Comes Leaves of russet curl into balls of withered rust,...
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A Secret Garden

By marandina on Wed, 24 Nov 2021

Audio version at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/a-secret-garden-mp3 A Secret Garden Sinking sun creeping lower, stalking horizons, rays of...
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Lonesome Pines

By marandina on Wed, 01 Dec 2021

For #NationalTreeWeek Lonesome Pines Snow drifts across a vertiginous Sierra Nevada, a land of ice-capped mountains and blue lakes, where vast...
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A Fairy Tale of New York

By marandina on Sun, 19 Dec 2021

A Fairy Tale of New York Silvery snow fell on unwashed decks, emigres sailing from an emerald isle, huddled masses yearning to breathe, dreaming...
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Ynys Wydryn (Glastonbury Tor)

By marandina on Wed, 05 Jan 2022

Audio version at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/tor-mp3 Ynys Wydryn (Glastonbury Tor) Blue skies shimmer, winter light, offerings hang from...
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The Wishing Tree (of Glastonbury Tor)

By marandina on Mon, 24 Jan 2022

Audio version at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/the-wishing-tree-mp3 The Wishing Tree (of Glastonbury Tor) Thoughts float like Cumulus clouds,...
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Saint Valentine

By marandina on Tue, 15 Feb 2022

Audio version at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/saint-valentine-mp3 Saint Valentine On a day of hearts and roses, San Valentino loved all,...
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A Tempest Off Portishead

By marandina on Mon, 21 Feb 2022

Audio version at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/a-tempest-off-portishead-mp3 A Tempest Off Portishead Thunder cracks a sombre sky, tendrils of...
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Messages from Moscow

By marandina on Wed, 02 Mar 2022

Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/messages-from-moscow-mp3 Messages from Moscow Kyiv had been in my thoughts as I stared at his...
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Het Bonhe

By marandina on Tue, 15 Mar 2022

Audio version at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/het-bonhe-mp3 Het Bonhe As spring emerged from winter, Russian scholars, teachers taught the...
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Into the Woods (Hansel and Gretel)

By marandina on Thu, 31 Mar 2022

Into the Woods (Hansel and Gretel) Moonbeams cast striations across velvet night, breezes blow in conspiratorial, hushed murmurs, Timber wolves howl...
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Life Through a Prism

By marandina on Tue, 05 Apr 2022

Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/life-through-a-prism-mp3 Life Through a Prism Life’s journey viewed through a backlit prism of...
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Dreams of Solitude

By marandina on Wed, 27 Apr 2022

Audio version at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/dreams-of-solitude-mp3 Dreams of Solitude In dreams I seek solace from the tyranny of days,...
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An Eternal Debt (The Pied Piper of Hamlin)

By marandina on Sat, 14 May 2022

This is an adaptation of the story of the Pied Piper of Hamlin which is also a Grimm’s fairy tale Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-...
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In a Land of Magicians

By marandina on Sun, 22 May 2022

Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/in-a-land-of-magicians-mp3 If you believe in something enough, can it become real? In a Land...
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Anniversary

By marandina on Sun, 12 Jun 2022

Audio version at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/anniversary-mp3 When we promise to remember Anniversary Time slipping away like sands, ground...
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The Raven Returned

By marandina on Fri, 17 Jun 2022

An homage to my favourite poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe Audio version at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/the-raven-returned-mp3 The Raven...
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St Audrey's Bay Waterfall

By marandina on Fri, 15 Jul 2022

Audio version at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/st-audreys-bay-waterfall-mp3 St Audrey’s Bay Waterfall Blue skies harbour cumulous clouds,...
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Night Whispers

By marandina on Tue, 02 Aug 2022

Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/night-whispers-mp3 Night Whispers Clouds file across stoic skies, constellations watch aeons...
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Does it Rain in Heaven?

By marandina on Tue, 23 Aug 2022

Watching someone close to you leave Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/does-it-rain-in-heaven-mp3 Does it rain in Heaven? Night...
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A Lamentation of Bees

By marandina on Tue, 13 Sep 2022

Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/a-lamentation-of-bees-mp3 A Lamentation of Bees Shafts of sunlight glinting, autumn breezes...
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