microscopic muses

Giving in or Giving up  the fight  to  remain  in this time (of year)

Autumn colours Beginnings and endings Absoluteness 

  Silhouetted against  An ever changing sky Disrupting eyes yearning  * for solitude *

Landscapes of longing Hushed whispers of wanting Insignificant mystique 

Time is but a mirage   When waiting for Yours and mine to converge

  Reflecting reverberations  Surface absorption  Physical knowledge 

  Funeral songs hold  no road block for grief No damn, to stop the floods flow

? I am here Are you there? *still reading me*

believe in yourself   so the intangible  becomes tangible  *untangled*

  Stuck in the traffic   Enduring desperation  A hopeless despair 

  Unseen bruises  The softer side  of you Turned inside out

  Without mirrors   You   can believe  you are perfect (The feeling  Not the seeing )

  they teach you to lie, because  their  truth hurts  too  much

  The dead steal away your love Like Autumn destroying the last echoes of a Summers laughter

The first of your family To start shedding (your) clothes  Naked ambition

  londongrip.co.uk the international online cultural magazine CONTRIBUTORS’ BIOGRAPHIES HOME RSS London Grip Poetry Review – Donald Gardner October 14, 2022 Poetry review –  NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, 1966 -2020 :  Fred Johnston  admires  Donald Gardner ’s well-crafted poetic chronicling of his times New And Selected Poems, 1966 -2020 Donald Gardner Grey Suit Editions ISBN 978-1-903006-25-2 Pbck. 227pp. £14. 95 It is no insignificant thing to discover a poet whose work in turn delivers something back to you. Call it a polite shock of newness, even surprise. When I first came upon Donald Gardner’s work my wonder was that I hadn’t read him or, indeed, of him, much more and more often. The poetry world is pock-marked with instant poets, McPoets, if you will, who haven’t bothered doing old fashioned things like serving apprenticeships in magazines and journals but seem to have sprung full-formed from the foreheads of commercial publishers or the loins of creative writing workshops. Are

  Parched particles   A land unquenchable Evaporates  *with time’s turning tide *

See all Culture REVIEW TS Eliot: Into The Waste Land, review: a sensual treat for both newcomers and poetry experts         4/5 BBC Two's documentary proved an invaluable primer for Eliot's seminal 1922 poem – and satisfied those seeking more scholarly insight By Claire Allfree 13 October 2022 • 10:15pm Have you always worried that you don’t understand TS Eliot’s mythic modernist mind bender? You are in good company – several of the contributors to this BBC Two documentary celebrating the poem’s centenary admitted they didn’t fully understand it either. Not that this stopped the composer Max Richter, when he was younger, from occasionally reciting the poem over the tannoy system in the early hours at the all night petrol station where he worked. The weary drivers filling up their cars in the neon lit forecourt to the sound of "April is the cruellest month" must have wondered whether they had stumbled into someone else’s dream.  TS Eliot’s The Wasteland  – a choric, fr