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 publication top right bar www.sundialzen.com
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.
fox, that is, the great survivor
March 19th
Regret
I miss the faint sound of the sea
lapping on tidal sand, a tree
stump or two drying in the sun
a fair way south of Arcachon,
infinity heat, the mirage
unto Biarritz, sa visage.
The unnumbered, beach-walking south
floated in hot air, dry in the mouth.
In a way, thus disembodied
like her not there, on a dune bled.
March 20th
Spring Veer (Sonnet) for G Hill
Sunlight, a dazzling distraction
on the angels above Mary
high in the Rosary Chapel.
So very proper her mantle.
The Lamb, wafer abolition
of the multi-sacrificial
preventing slaughter, to atone
taken for Communion wine.
Sunlight, disarmingly pagan
in a way, bringing on the corn
and everything will be just fine
as we fervour to feast and dine.
A young Mary will disappear
into May dancing, her dress sheer.
May 21st
Apropos Poundian (Sonnet)
Magnolia, magnificent
at Lady Bingham, by back lawn
old Tennis Court, Edwardian
the Sunday weather penitent.
I long for a grandeur flourish.
Tereza, clearing out rubbish
in the Czeck Republic, just back,
father September dead ; attack.
Left, I her, gazing at an Altar
overwhelmed from Bohemia.
At least her father had a house
now dormitory for a mouse.
Missing a couplet, remember
The Prague Spring, the Red surrender !
cf Prague Spring 1992 (Anthologised
In The Company Of Poets (Hearing Eye
2003 my Ed. John Rety (from Hungary)
March 22nd
The Crimes Of Gordon (Sonnet)
for a Prosecution Barrister
Veins full of left-wing poison,
not unconnected with Stalin
had a henchman in brown leather
guilty of thuggery arrest.
Brown, utterly thick, loathed contest.
Signed the dread Treaty of Lisbon,
sold half our gold at bottom
to detriment of the nation ;
made economy like Russia.
In volcanic rage, the damndest.
Crime : conspiracy to murder,
worthy of time in The Tower.
He loved his Grey Helicopter
Fleet, for my drowning on transfer.
March 26th protected by cover-up
1947
End of The Raj ; end of Prussia
but not The Hajj, or Gibraltar.
After Hong Kong, still Singapore
with everyone wanting more.
Lyric Text
Diamonds in the rough, not taut
pointer formal pour le moment
et tous le monde, et le savant
cast in the quatrain, and couplet,
savagery under control
gnawing as the shark in a shoal.
A terror beauty will be fraught.
Why did I write this ? Only naught.
Can the lyric ever be taught.
More Questions, Oxon.
Is Chaucer a Franglais poet
and Anglo-Saxon obsolete ?
Is Oxford kingdom of the grunt
or of Rhodes, and The Franco Front ?
At Oxford, nobody is blunt ;
happiest, champing in a punt.
My celebrated Grandfather,
Ralph, was a Rhodesian scholar.
*
From whence came his wife, dear Molly,
my redoubtable Grandmother.
Arrest the red Oxford Union !
and send every Wokeist down.
Look at ruined Zimbabwe now.
Gordon Chancellor Brown
The ruin of British banking
who thought he could do some thinking
and went to Moscow in drinking :
plotted to sunder Brand Lloyds
to fill in quaking northern voids.
Wanted robo androids.
Re-Alignment (1940)
After all, the dread Iron Cross
on every Junker bomber
creating catastrophic loss
for gesticulating Hitler.
March 26th
The American Augustan (Sonnet)
can appear Oxymoronic,
conceptually ; except to say
of defending, or of naming
after much bloody conquering,
in order to grow swathes of corn
and teach The Red Indian Latin.
Or, of Imperial Roma
and a tasting The Horatian.
The pilgrim said : here be order
stood at each advancing border.
We have to mourn The Buffalo
and the bloody, whip-lashed Negro.
What might Harvard say ? Yet again,
no couplet ! Ex. Augustan : pain.
March 26th/ April 8th
Silesia, Silesian (Sonnet)
Rich ; another Bavaria,
urgently needed by Prussia,
Empress Maria Theresa ;
Jelenia Gora Valley
once the Hirschberg (Deer Mountain)
site for Castle, Palace Fountain,
a summer vacation sally
for Junker aristocracy
and the exceptionally vain :
from East Germany, to Poland
ordered the Soviet brigand.
Austria, the major loser.
Silesia has no centre.
Many died, raftless at The Oder.
cf Silesia Over Dinner pbl in Camden Voices
1979-90 (Katabasis 1990) Dinah Livingstone
Editor. For Henryk Szews. Pbl + Early Dusk
March 27th/April 8th cf 1945
Couplets For Rachel
The Front Line, before the wounded ;
not all of them were so hounded.
Many flights have to be grounded ;
the benefits are unfounded.
March 27th/April 8th
We have decided the next Sonnet is so top bar
important it has to be carried into a new Pf
April Lyric.
My Playlet is a shadow work, a present from
MI9 (Home Guard 1940) to a sleepy MI5. We
have decided that Italy has long been fighting
the barbaric and barbarians, with fear high
of more invasions from across the water. So
it makes sense to pair the Playlet with final
Gate Sunlights (very Jamesian work) on top
bar of Sicily bound www.sundialzen.com
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Dedicated To The Founding Fathers
'Interrogating The Ks' finis March 5
composed for The CIA and MI5
A Playlet voices of operatives circle of
punctuated by groans Delivery slow and
very menacing. Versus Black Fascism...
and an arrogant style very unwelcome
in Milan and in Palermo...to absurdity
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