| Mayday Mayday
 
 Land of the jaded
 Monarch, slinking Minister
 fearful of fighting.
 
 The Wings Of The Dove       ex Henry James (1903)
 
 Kate glowed to Milly :                       handsome Kate
 You are a dove ! then embraced
 her, kissed on the lips.                   they were intimate
 
 Not Kubla Khan
 
 The Sea Of Azov
 lay hidden to Albion,
 until a horror.                                           cf J Conrad
 
 Riviera Lineage
 
 Terribilita
 the beauty dystopian,
 in the rows of bombed.                            blocks et al
 
 May 1st
 
 Mariupol Blitzed
 
 A desecration
 of the Virgin Mary, blown
 to fragment shattered.
 
 Travel Foregone                             ref Red Flag risk
 
 My jaunt to Trier,
 and juggling in Hanover
 as BAOR.                                                     Laureate
 
 May 3rd
 
 The Shadow Of Death                           tower Khan
 
 The Devil has won                                       cf Luther
 for treason running London,
 busy with vermin.
 
 Charred Scroll (AD 79)             looking for Sappho
 
 Herculaneum's
 Villa Of The Papyri
 Library, great, baked.                              intact for AI
 
 Peasant Victory Party                        post Viridiana
 Bunuel (1961)
 Such happy cheering !
 What, pre, craved ? Pie in the sky
 and freebee money.
 
 May 4th
 
 Sunlit Lauds But
 
 Hearing the plainchant
 you muse : every day, war
 the new condition
 
 Church Going                                        after Larkin
 
 The congregations
 I knew, appear to have gone
 but some thrive, younger.
 
 May 5th
 
 Terms Of Mayoralty                                     for Khan
 
 Daily, reciting
 The Nicene Creed, in Latin.
 Jerusalem, sung !                                    Blake/Parry
 
 Complaint For Blake
 
 Sexuality
 dead : no flow spermal in bed ;
 arousal, V shed !
 
 Foile De Grandeur                           for Taylor Swift
 
 He banked five billion
 yet in bed could not : trillion !                 or, perform
 For her, a tear fled.
 
 Tempter Jeu Douceur                      franglais for CR
 
 Edit Swimming Pool                Francois Ozon (2002)
 to flit baring Ludivigne                                    or pan
 Sagnier, merely !
 
 May 6th
 
 Break From War
 
 In thriving Maytime
 on shadowy Belsize Lane,
 no anxiety.
 
 The Lady Killers
 
 Vast Muslim women
 wear insulting to women,
 denying beauty.
 
 May 8th
 
 1955 Birthday Haiku                   part of The BAOR
 
 The year I arrived
 in Herford, West Germany      Nord-Rhin Westphalia
 joined Nato, enlarged.                              Stalin dead
 
 May 10th                     France in part left 1966-2009
 
 Brain Drain                                               after Pope
 
 What ran in the new
 Floodway Thames River sewer
 beyond the brewer ?
 
 Zero Kultur
 
 A Muslim is pro
 death, cavorting anti-Art
 and most of music.
 
 Quartet
 
 Direction Bordeaux
 for Palermo, on The Grand
 Tour, in a way.                                         as in 18th c.
 
 May 16th
 
 At Branch Hill (5)
 
 Piling, massive cloud
 variety cumulus
 windswept and sunward.                         or, sunswept
 
 Suspicion
 
 No one is easy
 with anyone else, in all
 waiting for the fall.
 
 May 19th
 
 Oh, To Rival !
 
 The lilacs wither
 in the Carolinas...wrote
 Stevens, to envy.
 
 Extraordinary                         not a feathered drone
 
 The greater spotted
 Eagle, migrating, has been
 avoiding Ukraine.                            noted ex. tagging
 
 May 20th
 
 The Crimean War                             after Tennyson
 
 Etched in memory,
 The Light Cavalry wrong charge                   in 1854
 a renewed haunting.
 
 May 22nd
 
 Haiku Grim
 
 War interrupted
 Clouds Of Monoravia
 (text) raging Ukraine.                                        by CT
 
 Sunny Spells                                            after Larkin
 
 Careworn, laconic
 the tone of the announcer
 reading The Weather.
 
 May 24th
 
 Lauds Latin Mass
 
 Our congregating :
 lean lovers, two, a Konger.                               ex HK
 Pavement near : three, cloaked.                 or, draped
 
 May 25th                                                    end May :
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 Coda Didactica                           for Bloomsbury
 
 Elite Selection                  for Aunt (on Truman side)
 
 Has the man breeding
 or woman, for that matter ?
 a key Kit question.                   Blenheim Palace MI5
 
 Absurd Nation                                      for The Oafs
 
 Our Debt interest                              at 3.5% of GDP
 paying soar greater by far
 than Defence billing.                                 or, budget
 
 Sermon Puzzle         for The Rev'd Mark Wakefield
 
 The Faith Trinity                cf The Anathasian Creed
 our Church Singularity.
 The spaces between ?                                     therein
 
 May 26th
 
 For Richard Peston                                Islamophile
 
 Pontificate, you
 may : condoning a horror,
 their ranging contempt.                            for Reform
 
 Deo Gratias (3)               Gott Im Himmel (German)
 
 Thank God, Caen Normans
 got Conquest. They brought Latin
 and French, governing.                        et pour parler
 
 May 31st  ending the Saxon swamp with Cathedrals
 
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 Coda 2 - 2
 
 Reversal Irony                                       after Bunuel
 
 The Mansion and lawn
 give room for conversation,
 the Revolution.                                               viva la!
 
 May 31st
 
 The Young Clampers
 
 Bloomsbury not
 Bloomsbury anymore, caught
 neuter publishing.
 
 June 1st
 
 Dystopian
 
 Street full of vermin
 with Tower blocks everywhere
 but nothing to fear.
 
 June 4th
 
 Again Dysto.
 
 The cars are too huge
 gilding the gargantuan
 from sofa bingeing.
 
 June 6th
 
 Page Offending (Couplet)
 
 You must particularize
 in order to satirize.
 
 June 17th       finis maintenant
 
 THE CREEDS
 
 The first one was, obviously, The Apostles Creed
 which, being short form, is still used in Church
 from time to time. Thereafter came the Creed of
 Nicaea (325 A.D.) - not long before Byzantium
 became Constantinople in 330 A.D., for Rome.
 
 In 381 A.D. THE NICENE CREED was taught,
 an expanded version. 'It is the most widely accepted
 accepted Christian Creed'. From Credo, The Creed.
 
 Something known as The Athanasian Creed became
 the most Trinitarian Creed, with the equality of the 3
 in The Trinity most explicitly stated, to cognoscenti.
 It is thought to have been composed circa the 5th c.
 in The South of France, long before militant Islam.
 'The One' became opposed to Three in One, and One
 in Three - and this they scream in Gaza to this day.
 
 Date of note October 22nd 2024. Plus ca change...
 
 
 
 
 
 
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