| Aircraft Carriers  for Hunt             (re higher taxes)
 
 We have to have three
 were one gone in The Baltic,
 for a Falklands War.
 
 Siesta Fiesta  for J                                 cf a Picasso
 
 She sought a climax
 low in a Habitat chair,
 her legs akimber.
 
 March 1st
 
 Challenge To Moscow      for Countess Marion von
 Donhoff
 When, for Friedrichstein
 a Pony Club Gymkhana
 and the tack room full ?
 
 Red Rampage                          for Anna Akhmatova
 
 The Country Houses
 of Ukraine : lost, where were they ?
 In what was Poland.
 
 March 2nd
 
 Russia Storming                                           for Vlad
 (eta June)
 Wave after sad wave
 of infantry, for slaughter
 unending, shelling.
 
 March 5th
 
 Albion Absurdity                             for Hunt (again)
 
 All those major cars
 but not enough Challenger
 tanks, armed for Poland.                       shades of '39
 
 March 6th
 
 Cyrillic Font                    9th century AD ex Preslav
 
 A Moscow Mobster
 the terror of EUROPA,
 offering no hope.
 
 No Laudanum                                             or Lauds
 
 To pare Coleridge
 the worst thing in life, to be
 haunted by The Muse
 
 Playing Dead                for Hogan Howe (and Kate)
 
 Die ! - to live and fight
 another day, is a way
 of looking at things.
 
 March 9th
 
 Le Sujet, Qui Est ?                           for J.G. Ballard
 
 Molotov cocktails
 rampage on High Rise dunk,
 a pony grieving.
 
 Food Bank Horror
 
 Banned, from my giving :
 post date Self Raising Flour
 and : no home cooking.
 
 Blossomise                            pbl. Fabers March 21st
 
 Si, to blossomise
 better than to sodomize.
 I love Blossom Eyes.
 
 March 13th
 
 WARMONGER             from W2 EQ (CT Oct. 2015)
 
 What did J Goebbels                  forensic early 1930s
 write of Hitler ? He wanted                        a warning
 a war. And got one.
 
 Axis Of Evil 2
 
 The dread Mongol horde
 so ill-bred, despite yoghurt
 and love in a yurt.
 
 March 14th
 
 Warsaw Pact, The                                     1955-1991
 
 What kind of a Pact ?
 Was Vlad hankering for tact
 protection, paying ?
 
 The Flipside                                            after Byron
 
 The Russian problem :
 a Mongol nihilism
 losing them goodwill.
 
 Solipsism                                                  for Prague
 
 How could they squander
 victory thrice ? Uprising
 (The Hungarian)                                                 1956
 
 March 15th
 
 Defending Albion                                        for Gove
 
 Your proscribed, alleged
 extremism of the right
 can be centre ground.      cf Jerusalem (Blake/Parry)
 
 Early Mass (March 16)
 
 A young woman, pained
 knelt wearing a headscarf, prayed
 in a fawn raincoat.
 
 March 16th
 
 Coffee Haiku                                                  for HG
 
 The work must surprise
 rather than harangue. Line dreamt :
 Can a ghost get lost ?                    inscribed on stone
 
 March 18th
 
 City Catastrophe
 
 Arm, Autonomy
 ought to be FTSE 100
 prime market listed.                           for The Fathers
 
 March 19th
 
 Message For Moscow              after John Constable
 
 If Salisbury                                 on Russian war map
 and The Cathedral be nuked,             (with Tidworth+
 so be The Kremlin.                             of equal import
 
 After George Herbert  cf The Church-Porch (1633)
 Bemerton Wilts. pbl
 Money cannot buy
 the moment golden, not all
 the gold in the world.
 
 March 19th
 
 Haiku Fatigue (2)
 
 Mecca and Moscow
 for subject, too bipolar
 to boring to know.
 
 Elle Au Contraire                   pour ne touchez pas J
 
 N'est pas fatigue'
 never-ending e'nergie
 sa marque sourire          trans. her hall-mark smiling
 
 Spring Equinox                after E.J. Thribb (1972+)
 
 Seagull mania
 over Talacre : I have
 written this before.
 
 The Waves                                                  pbl. 1931
 
 Sun, finalement
 on my Virginia Woolf
 corner, the Terrace.
 
 March 22nd
 
 Vladimir Error                               for White Russia
 
 He could have revived
 the Country Estate (Russian)
 with whited mansion.                             some in part
 
 Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)        cf her Requiem
 
 Her best translator                           pbl. OUP (1969)
 keen Richard McKane, friend of              1947-2016
 my Cousin Isolde.               ex Blenheim Palace MI5
 
 March 23rd                   his father ex GCHQ. Ex MC
 
 Urgently, For Si                           on news of cancer
 
 The faint Princess, wan
 has need of a Eulogy                                        or, an
 from her Laureate.                                       Armitage
 
 Nightjet 2024                                         sleeper train
 
 Goebbel's favourite                                      he, filmic
 night train, dark with mystery :
 Munich, to Berlin.                           ex W2 EQ (2015)
 
 March 23rd
 
 Albion Renovatio          Latin. For The Guzzle Party
 
 Renewal opens
 with reforming, the austere
 and concentrating.                               election poster
 
 March 24th
 
 'The Dinosaurs'                           source JP Morgan
 
 Rayner : moving chairs,
 The Titanic. A buyer                  unless priced at 8 %
 strike (re. Gilts) will kill.                   re-fi long dated
 
 Khan Hole                              repeat Mayor London
 
 Islam, his, anti-
 T.S. Eliot, for sure,
 the text Ash Wednesday                                   c.1930
 
 March 25th
 
 Red Flag Street
 
 Cherie, pass the red
 jam, love ! Can sofa Tony
 jive on his guitar ?
 
 At Cabourg (Balbec)                     after Proust (CT)
 
 C'est meilleure pour
 regardez les grandes nuages
 avec lunettes, non !
 
 March 26th
 
 Tawhid                                or, Tawheed; core tenets
 
 Islam totes contra                                      cf the guns
 all Capitalism, Hymn
 and Church property.                       cf the sacrament
 
 March 27th
 
 Arrest Khan !                                  devil in disguise
 
 He : a Communist
 and rejector of Jesu
 Christe, The Choir.                cf Gloria sung in Latin
 
 On Maunday Thursday                            at 7.30 am
 
 The ring of Church bells
 drifted, over the lower
 lawns of Maitland Park.
 
 Before Tenebrae
 
 This morning, I saw
 Heaven, to a Labrador
 like Tessa playing.                                Joan's former
 
 From The Homily                             after Tenebrae
 
 Was there a Judas
 kiss, in The Abbey, Mecca
 the betrayer lit ?                        after The Coronation
 
 March 28th
 
 Facing Threat                        at Haddenham-Thame
 
 In sure Pergola
 alcove sun, you think of young
 men sent off to war.                     in existential crisis
 
 Tusk Ready                                              for Poland
 
 The late campaigning
 season be August, Oh Augusta !
 - in far Washington.
 
 Tidworth Unready                       for Lord Cameron
 
 One hundred fifty
 England tanks merely, for sea-
 way unto Poland.
 
 March 29th                                             Good Friday
 
 nb   will The Republican Party (and saboteur Trump)
 become responsible for any Fall of Kharkiv ? - and,
 the cost be astronomic....in American lives, one day.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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