I began writing poetry in middle age. For about 5 years I lived aboard a yacht in remote areas of Australia, mostly in the Torres Strait. We had intermittent TV and radio signal depending on the anchorage and I began writing poems for family and frien
This is firstly a collection of twenty-four poems that provides a light-hearted read, offering snippets of wisdom on the human condition. It is about Alf and Mabel and events in the life of this long-married couple living in Yorkshire, England, which capture some of the quirks of old age...
An overlooked and unique feature of his early works include humorous vignettes and free-verse poems in pseudonymous pieces published in the avant-garde journal Jugend. In later writings, he advances his own life-philosophy through an idiosyncratic use of Goethe’s scientific, autobiographical, and ...
natural world had four seasons and four cardinal points fixed to the compass. Men lived through the four stages of childhood, youth, adulthood, and old age. All of these divisions, these fundamental realities, became associated with the humors. There was thus a “continuum between passions and ...
all from the 13th century and beyond—the Old Norse Eddic poems, the GermanNibelungenlied, and various poems about the heroDietrich von Bern/Theodoric. Only broken bits of this culture remain: runic inscriptions, mythological motifs on gold amulets, a few magic incantations (the “Merseburger Zaub...