Poser For Trump
Was Germany under-armed
for America wanting that ?
as too little was left unharmed
by warrings of The Wehrmacht.
March 14th
Joan Wannsee (1947)
aprox. verbatim to son
'...In the Bruningslinden garten
we could have the smell of corpses
wafting over from bombed Berlin,
and the huge pilings of rubble
in the Anglo-German children
I was caring for, a stifle
in the grounds of our captured Schloss.
Berlin still stank from our bombing.
For evenings, read Enid Blyton.
One role, test Nazification...'
Said : Berlin still stank, it was rank.
Worked within The British Red Cross.
One called Snook flown to Norfolk ;
Girl Mecklenburg, to Hamburg.
Many a photograph taken.
Occupied Ukraine for NATO
The raping, and the burning
by the Russian military
is why the young men of Europe,
facing invasion, have to have hope
in fighting for the liberty
of their land, from a scorched earthing.
As in 1940, a fight
to the death to prevent night.
Ghost Marian
We remember Mariupol
subjected to the infernal.
It may stand as the example
horrifying to an angel.
March 15th
Draping The Shawl
or, Traitor PM
Entertaining them, Ramadan :
and we want their abolition.
Cider rationing, their unknown.
Unsatisfied, they were a frown
and, at Camden Music, a scowl.
One day, The Army on the prowl.
Will there be a Revolution
to revive green Albion ?
Variants : reboot, or restore.
Heathrow 3, a provocateur.
March 16th
Spring Late
Sadly, it is clouding over
and I, her, are not in clover.
Second Sunday Lent
Again, in the sunlit arbour.
I thought of Clemency Burton-
Hill, and of Fiona, tumour -
their warning, contra excitement,
thus, to canalize my complaint.
For both, terror, a Greek agon.
Might Rilke uplift Clemency.
Fiona gone is with Katey.
March 17th/ April 2nd
Le Probleme Central
Terror in The Hohenzollern
grew with The French Revolution :
the ending of autocracy
in favour of democracy.
The Austrians preferred Waltzing
to the black Prussian drill marching.
Vienna loved the chocolate whirl
and Bavaria, the buxom girl.
An irony : French loved, spoken,
as German was rather barking.
1871 (Versailles)
Deceptive, The Hall of Mirrors
gazing megalomania
encouraged by The Sanssouci
Palaces, around Lake water
near Potsdam, their Robert Adam
on a scale beyond Windsor,
India, beyond Victoria ;
so comforting, in Flanders.
March 17th
Etching By Calau (1816)
'after 1815' Book note
Prinzessen Charlotte von Preussen
is the first steamer on The Spree
near Bellevue Palace, gaiety.
Voltaire Potsdam (1752)
with conjunctive redactions
' Athens, Sparta, military
campments, Epicurean garden,
trumpets, violins, war, philo...'
Il faut cultiver le jardin.
(repondit Candide, mais votre)
March 18th
Ostpolitik 2 (Sonnet)
We have to engage with Germany
as the central super-power,
her posture, rightly or wrongly
not from an ivory tower.
They, The Central Powers, have gone
in the language of World War One.
We look for commonality,
respect their greater Industry.
A re-united Germany
was a terror huge for Thatcher,
but the Ukraine savagery
disclosed the Mongol in Russia.
America is now a danger
threatening King Canada.
nb in the early 1980s Thatcher diverged from
Washington, and MI6. In Kohl, she saw a new
Bismarck ; she distrusted a Public School '6.
March 17th
Masks, K America
a Hogarthian satire
Epitome, stupidity
one mask of the Egyptian tree
boasting, apart, of vacancy
Anyone can come inside me
pretending be inscrutable
their prime minds all of a jumble.
nb a prose poem 'Interrogating The Ks' composed
for The CIA also Reform UK (Citizenship Testing)
will appear, Folio redactable, at the end of March.
March 19th
Lull (Regent's)
Early Spring, and The Boating Lake
pedallo still under covers
in the middle, with no wind-break
and alarmingly few seagulls.
The pathway gorse is doing well
for absenting a may-time spell.
The Winter Garden is jaune, blooming
yet, no keen lovers prompt loving.
Frigid, is she adorable.
Sub awning, only time will tell.
Belvedere after Auden
A vast garden can grow small
if caught, thundery, in the pall
of terrible events, with love
not enough to banish horror
by a summer sandwich, above
the Table to prevent terror.
Disruption beyond outright fear
does concern a white Belvedere.
Rotunda Tea
Sasha, did fox eat the chicken
in glaze on clean table linen ?
as you were having a shower.
We must really order a Yacht
as the teak one has gone somewhat.
We saunter very easily.
Champagne tipped the inanity
on enemy insanity.
Everyone was flying a kite !
We see the End of The Parade
as marked merely by orangeade ;
no time for the bucket and spade.
One question : will Cara simper
avant le fort finis whimper
penetrating The Rotunda ?
Or go in a paroxysm
and us all buried under.
He stared from behind a mower.
March 19th
=ADVANCE WARNING OF OPENING APRIL TEXT
April Fool
After twelve, a hazing over
for shadow on the sundial.
I had wanted abandonment,
admit, for sharpening the wit.
A marzipan life of sunscape
near Arles, too lazy to escape.
They are the finest of Van Gogh
before he became fool enough.
A crow mystery in landscape.
April 2nd Kenwood Kitchen Garden
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