Dick Davis Poems

Hit Title Date Added
1.
A Monorhyme For The Shower

Lifting her arms to soap her hair
Her pretty breasts respond – and there
The movement of that buoyant pair
Is like a spell to make me swear
...

2.
Uxor Vivamus

The first night that I slept with you
And slept, I dreamt (these lines are true):
Now newly married we had moved
Into an unkempt house we loved –
...

3.
Aubade

For Joshua Mehigan

These are the dawn thoughts of an atheist
Vaguely embarrassed by what looks like grace:
...

4.
Iran Twenty Years Ago

Each summer, working there, I’d set off for
The fabled cities – Esfahan, Kashan,
Or Ecbatana, where Hephaestion died,
The poets’ towns – Shiraz and Nayshapour,
...

5.
Guides For The Soul

Who thickens from the shadows as you die?
Who silences your comprehending cry?

Emblem of all you lost and now inherit,
...

6.
Shadows

The sun comes up, and soon
The night’s thin fall of snow
Fades from the grass as if
It could not wait to go.
...

7.
Baucis And Philemon

Life lies to hand in hoe, spade, pruning-knife,
Plain wooden furniture and wattle walls,
In those unspoken words ‘my husband’, ‘wife’,
In one another’s flesh which still recalls
...

8.
Touring A Past

The ruins, which are not very remarkable, are situated on an island which
is almost impossible to reach ...

Hachette Guide to the Middle East, p.1003.
...

9.
Desert Stop At Noon

The house is one bare room
And only tea is served.
The old man, mild, reserved,
Shuffles into a gloom
...

10.
Memories Of Cochin

an epithalamium

Through high defiles of warehouses that dwarf
With undetermined age the passer-by,
...

Close
Error Success