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Bread and Circuses

Chapter 15: Μονοχρόνος Ἡδόνη.
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A lyrical collection of short poems ranges from quiet country scenes and childhood memories to urban sketches and religious reflections. The poet renders streams, gardens, market sellers, and domestic interiors in close sensory detail while pairing everyday observation with moral and spiritual meditation. Animal vignettes and playful pieces for children sit alongside elegies, prayers, and ironic portraits of modern life, producing tones of humour, tenderness, and solemnity. Varied forms and concise portraits move between pastoral lanes, London streets, and intimate household moments while attending to time, sorrow, and faith.

Μονοχρόνος Ἡδόνη.

Pull out my couch across the fire, Let the flames warm me through, Though the pain gnaw my back away There shall be pleasure too!
Search out the desolate garden walks— What though the year be spent— There shall be marigolds enough For the bowl we bought in Ghent:
Fire shall bring out their acrid scents For a walled garden’s sweets, With the melody of Flemish bells And the angles of Flemish streets.
Fire and blossom and dreamful shapes And I, while the long pain stays, Ward off the shot of the savage hours On my rampart of yesterdays.