September Song ex Metro photo
Sultry in Venice
prancing shiny black leather,
Rita Ora blew. a kiss
Summer Offensive for Wagner
It never happened.
No raw Ride Of The Valkyries Die Walkure (1854)
came to save Ukraine. cf Apocalypse Now (1979)
Rialto Gondola after Eliot Poems (1920)
Princess Volupine
met Burbank in a Hotel,
fell. Not Klein, Bleistein.
Pantheon Villa
Hysterical, S. no Sir Kenneth Clark
Schama ignored fresco, held
no Roman candle.
Molotov Cocktail he of The Pact
25,000
'Red' Commanders killed ; Ukraine suspect
Famine, ten million. 7 to 11 million
The BBC (1923-2023) for Sir Geoffrey Hill
Founded to reach gens
bettering themselves. Now, lens
a guttering down. or, jabbering
September 1st
Ignoramus, Tu
Needed Empire
to defeat a Reich. Critique
thereof, in error.
Third Programme 1923
A spinster, humble
in Bradford, started, hearing
Beethoven, Elgar.
Heartache
A September sad
widow, a lover slaughter,
began to yearn for..
After Rilke (3)
Latently violin,
to an astringent cello
the sad creeping in ..
First Love, Trieste 1948 or, deflowering
Why declare Rilke ? ref my parents
Dick, Joan earned a bed chamber
in Duino Castle. courtesy General Airey
September 3rd
Denied Interview (March 2016) ref DCA (on tape)
You were interviewed or, have been
over Regent's Park Road. NO,
I was not. They lied. at Holborn Front Desk
The Red Flag Singers A Brownite led my first
wrongful (street) arrest
Bolshevik Starmer,
like Lenin Blair and thug Brown
unable to rule. for Holborn +
Sky-scaping (Yet Again) for Dinah Livingstone
Blake's Talacre Green
bigs an Autumn moody sky. or, bolds
He knew Angels fly. or, watched
Portrait Of A Lady (2) cf TSE
You cannot make love
the time entire, can you ? entire tri-syll
deft, on a sofa.
Zenith for Camus
Where have the shadows
gone, at solar noon ? the heat
emptied of people.
September 4th
At 6 AM after Heaney
But a quarter moon
distant, low, I watch a sky
lighten into dawn.
September 6th
Holland House for Sir John Betjeman
Such a tragedy, (not total)
the wrong bombing, the burnt books ;
rebuild, deserving. in September 1940
The Avenger for Countess Marion von Donhoff
b. 1909
Sadly. A late act :
Potsdam paid the the price. Destroyed,
The Prussian Palace. in the plural
BAE Systems Heritage
Avro Lancaster as from A.V. Roe
(The) was made near Manchester.
Named The Avenger also built in Canada
Shadow Cabinet ex photo City AM
The trouser-suited
idiocy does not know in need of language
how to walk, or talk. reform
Meeting, Heaven not a Club
Will you, Alison
dare a call sign ? An Arbour or, bower
pour in flagrante ?
NO To Vespers ! for a Verger dim - challenged at 6
In Cuddington, crass
and callow, lazy-speaking
English. Cows dying. for want of The Angelus
September 6th
Pale Cerulean
Out-of-season Greece,
at the end of a garden
a redeeming peace.
Council Tax for Georgia Gould
The Police HAVE to
be paid, The Fire Brigade
as well, our roads paved !
The Master Race for W.H. Auden met at Cantina
Magna Graecia
went to Washington via (and London)
Rome, The Vatican. see St. Peter's Basilica
No Proper Numbers
Etruscan failure
no cause for sorrow : that freak
design ; oddity. borderline Chinese
Action Stations !
It will be all go
in the October storms, boys :
who will prang their toys ?
Can Opener for Yeats (again)
No country for old
men. Now too many just game
to roll their marbles.
At Ordzhonikidze in November 1942
Stopped. Within a mile The Axis Powers
The Georgian Military
Road, to the oil. the oilfields
She Loves You (1963)
Armitage, Simon
speaks High Liverpudlian,
as if a Beatle.
In 1664
Dutch, New Amsterdam
seized by the English : re-named
New (The Duke of) York.
September 8th
Asset Hijack formerly Private Equity Scandal
Bulging back pockets
in Idaho, Morrisons'
Chalk Farm Lock horror. luxury blocks
The Break With Rome
Zestful Anne Boleyn, executed
Queen loved by Thomas Wyatt : Sir, 1503-1542
a Francophile. with a sharp tongue
September 9th
Second Summer
September no more
to the heat rising, a chair
wanting a river.
30 Years On
Grab incoherence,
a fizzy break down of law
and gaming ; rats' rule.
September 10th
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