Wednesday 30 June 2010

Birthday Presents

BIRTHDAY PRESENTS
A week's eternity
drags on interminably
but quickly passes
in the quiescent pathos

Answers unhoped for
yet expected
are not expressed as such
but induced by nonchalance

Indifferent love
lies worse than hate
Fuel-deprived fires
soon cease to smoulder

The darkness
of the year's equinox
fails to foretell
any future fulfillment
© GERALD ENGLAND

Composed: Sheffield, 21st December 1970

Publications

1990 Minotaur (USA)
2002 Poetry Cornwall (UK)

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