end of april (2025)
a wet and gloomy day today…. 30/04/1025 End of April Muted, miserable, pale-pewter greyBarely one hundred metres awayBeyond the station but encroachingA monstrous curtain of mist descendsObscuring the fields like a Stephen King novella Even Spring’s vivacious verdure hangs its headHeavy with the weight of incessant rainAnd only one avian voice is still raised in […]
tolkein the talk | poetic overture to an imagined sequel
inspired by the idea that tolkein’s elves might one day return from Valinor to aid the failing race of man… and then perhaps, after all, the elves might also be equated with angels returning at the end times… a time when man in his infinite folly, having apple-eyed his knowledge but suffering from insufficient wisdom, […]