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Secret
lamentations of modern man |
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mass
media and unaccountable agencies contribute to the progressive
erosion of democracy and the direction of human energies less in
the service of life and more in the service of power... |
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To Cecilia |
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To
Cecilia (This is my first published poem in the university
magazine (CLARE) during a romantic phase of my youth now I am
searching for publishers for the post-romantic material that
came later ... |
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A mass for our times |
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Extracts
from Mass in C: a dramatic poem taking from the latin text of
the mass Triggered by performances of the Bach mass in B minor
and the Mozart mass in C minor. Performed as a dramatic sequence
first performances at London, Brighton and Bitmingham with
Electronic Music by David Cain |
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A wound that refuses to heal |
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Sharing
with my many lovely American friends a journey that carries with
it a pain that defies resolution...Will we ever know who killed
JFK ?? and who and who and what and why and how ??????? |
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Death of spontaneity |
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When your sweet music earns you
punishment for mysterious crimes |
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Osiris
song and letters from the underworld ... |
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Argument with a tormenting
other-self |
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Galileo
was interrogated, imprisoned and tormented until he recanted his
blasphemous, heretic vision that the Earth was spherical, and
untill he denied the nonesensense about Earth rotating around
Sun... |
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Recipe for a socially desirable
animal, black comedy |
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recipe
for a socially desirable animal where and when? That is the
question A touch of the theatre of the absurd... |
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Truth |
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Elusive
truth, lying truth!... |
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Dialogue with a fish being
grilled |
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cast not
this reproachful eye oh suffering fish when your crystal ball is
destroyed and my burning coals de-nature your love jelly |
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The Sun is lured into orbit
round the Moon |
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Dissonance most severe the Sun is lured into orbit round the
Moon... |
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Tiresias the blind seer |
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What
is vision's weight what awful price?... |
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Prayer and reality sandwich |
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a
meditation... |
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And was born an eater of the
forbidden fruit |
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The
turnings taken in human social evolution creating discord with
biological evolution is leading the species down a blind alley
of mounting violence unto destruction, unless the miracle of a
new consciousness erupts within us first |
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Palpitations |
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Intimation at dawn |
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Moments
of illumination on a Paris electric train at dawn... |
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Tragic demise of the Matriarch |
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A vision
for a mime or modern ballet drama. Horus the son laments the
decline and death of Isis the great mother |
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Songs before the end of history,
an introduction to collected poems |
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SONGS
BEFORE THE END OF HISTORY An introduction to collected poems by
Tarek Ali Hassan from Egypt ... |
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Dance Macabre! |
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Absurd
theatre of the absurd:"at the postmortem of a friend"... |
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And
then you knew too much! |
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Excursion into ancient mythology Oedipus the most sublime
contemplation on the two inseperable Oedipus plays of Sophocles,
regularly separated and distanced by damaging social
conventions. |
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In the lap of progress, for
Samuel Beckett and his waiting for Godot |
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Civilisation and progress: frantically engaged..... |
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to a Mahatma |
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'great
soul |
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untitled poem |
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for Allen Ginsberg |
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A man of love, a great poet and a beacon to the
generation of the sixties whose great song was lost and betrayed |
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for Florence G. most beloved |
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Tragic demise of the Matriarch
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OEDIPUS the most sublime |
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Revenge of the wronged matriarch |
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The never ending tragedy of an
apple eater |
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Tragedy of a threatened species |
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Black Comedy,"THE THING"
a new theatre experiment in 7 movements performed with great
success in London and Durham |
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