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A poem on hands
Danger
Words
Petals for a pillow: A sequence of five
On the gift of a letter in color
The ship
Answer to the color letter
Dirge
For R.M.
Question
Withholding
Five stones from Iona
When in the waking moment
Arrival
Witness the newborn tendril in the upper air
Transformation
Compensation
Michael Hall ballad
To the tenth class
The tragic ditty of Kitty
Witches' revels
To seize those children whom 'tis clear
Barometer
Surface
The trap
For Michael
Jade piece
Teacher to Michael, a student
Answer
Crevice
How tenuous and delicate the thread
Fossils
Design for living
For David Napier
Design, Autumn ride
Thanks to Matthew
Task: For some in class X
For Mrs Wren to thank her for roses
Reply for Trevor
To St. Nicholas
To Werner: A gallant young gentleman
Ship
To Sylvia on her twelfth birthday
Eurhythmy invocation
Hands
The circle
To Karl Schapiro: Reading his own poetry
Liberty
Promise
Storm not the citadel of me
Resolve

Handwritten rough drafts of poems

Tree at Hurn Court
Cedar at Hurn Court
Holiday
Vision
To L.P.: A trilogy
Resurrection
I read the resurrection
For J.D.: Long not seen never forgotten
A poem no one can understand but Dante
For A.B.
Meeting
Afterthoughts: For A.B.
A poem only Dante can understand
Hokku
Essex weekend April 2-4 1971
Echo
A poem for Dante
The word: Afterthoughts for A.B.
Easter 1971
Be aware, stranger
The cry
University a la mode: England 1971
Easter morning 1971
Blackbird on twig
For E.B.: Poetry society evening
The rebuff
Poet of the evening
That book
The journey
Easter blackbird
Blackbird 1971
Journey
Prayer
Cry
Black crows
Hearing aid
Poem for Patricia
The question
Black crows: For A. Beardon
Praise
Tears

Handwritten rough drafts of poems

The critic
Poem for Mr. New
To a critic of poetry
Poem for Mr. New, the critic
To the critic of poems
The poetry critic
Tears
Praise for a poet
The tired mind
Hurt
Cold
The dream
Lost poem
Edward Brathwaite
Green Park: Autumn 1971
For Denise
For Lee Pascal
Compliment at sixty-five: For Lee Pascal
Loneliness
Notes: Summer Conference: English Speaking Board 1971
Aloneness
Compliment at sixty-four from a young man
Nostalgia
The Tome: Japan - Art and civilization for Lee Pascal
The Book
For Lee
Finished
The moment
For Lee: vignettes
Sahara
Salisbury Cathedral: Advent Sunday 1971
For Denise King: On a notebook
Pilgrimage
Litany
Fear
Inscription for Lee
Thank you poem
The witch's cat
Poem for Vera and Holger
Words from an old Spanish carol

Handwritten rough drafts of poems

Answer to advice
Time bombs
Rat race
Heart poison tonight
Betrayal: To P.S.
Answer to a critic giving advice
Hibernation
Meeting
Winter morning
Poetry recital: For Betty Mulcahy
The learned dissertation
Oracy
Outside
The dissertation
A special sunny young man
On a feast
Caged
Mocked
On an anthology
The dyslexic
Shadow
For C. Day Lewis
How in the crowded spaces
To the publisher of poetry anthologies
Dyslexic father and son
Better not
Caged in a timetable not of my choosing
Father and son
Parenthood
History
For Lee
For L.P.
Son of the spirit
Slavery
Said the tree
Moor Park pine
There is a stillness
Question
Spring Hokku

Handwritten rough drafts of poems

In retrospect I say
First meeting
Remembering
The picture
The face
There is a stillness
The candle
For D.M.
To a posy
E.S.B. Conference
For Christabel Burniston and her team of flower girls
Eyes
The visiting card
Re-write of Tuli poem 1958
Trilogy for an afternoon: Charity, Voice, The letter-poem
Words
Puzzle
Dilemma
Longing
Name
Word litany
Brush with death
David
Dialogue
Riddle

Handwritten rough drafts of poems

One tear
Re-write of Hibernation
Hokku
Flower
Three-day farewell
Pigeons
The dream
Pain
The wish
Query
Reincarnation
Many births, many lives, many deaths
Betrayal
The Christ answers
After sleep Christ says to the heart
November morning
Feeling
Affinity
Presence
Old photo 1936: Seated at a table, to Sylvia
The blow
Words are shy
Fear can freeze

Handwritten rough drafts of poems

Secrets
The door
The square
Red candle: A book of Chinese poems
Hate love
To the poet Wen I-to
Experience
On the poems
The game - now and then
Release
Garret lodging in London
Dead
Dawn chorus: Temple Lodge 1973
Holiday
The class
Sleeping beauty on ice
Antidote to Creative Chaos called uncreative chaos or alternatively a romp through chaos
Love thine enemies
The enemy
On meeting a new friend through an enemy
Poems are lonely
Poems to the poet
Some poems are icebergs
Once
Rapport
Iceberg poems
The lost abbey: Castle Acre
Mush love
On a vacation postcard
Postcard postscript
Moor Park
Moor Park tree: Cedar of Lebanon
Cedar atlantis
Soul
After death: For Lee the grammarian
Cross section: For Lee
Masseur
Rejoice in reunion: For R.M. masseur
On the mystery plays

Handwritten rough drafts of poems

Long distance telephone
To C. Day Lewis
Overwhelmed by Ann
Time no longer tethered
Green Park: February 1974
Thorn in the flesh
Madonna
Pre-spring Green Park hokku
Day
Vagrant
Coward
Bruckner: An Easter poem
Saved
For Inge: In appreciation
Compliment
Inside
Death
Lucky me
Cherry blossoms
Lake Louise
O lover death
The poem
Touch is denied
Poet's plea
The dilemma
Poet and poem
Experience to poem
Stay the tongue
Revision of Black Crows
For Stuart
For a shy poet
Plea: To a shy poet

Handwritten rough drafts of poems

Ned Vi Claire Carol
We circle of four
Kuuozan
Words
Word world
Meeting
Clever man
Appreciation: For Denis
Awareness
Emptiness
Inside
Outside
Awareness: For D.R.
Aloneness
Elizabethan gentleman
The past: For D.R.
Starvation
Voice miracle
Meditation on hands
The young
Enlightenment
Fault
Treasure
On a magazine of modern poets
Billet doux for Joan
For Marion and Denison
Dinner delights
Rationalization
On being given an award
Before the Orthodox liturgy
Orthodox cathedral before the all-night vigil
Thank you for dust-bug doggerel
Plea for enlightenment
The web
The trap
Web to window
Timetable cage
Opening
An appreciation: Creative Chaos

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Timetable cage
Poem for a kind man: John Leger
R.D.
Retirement poem
The gift
For Marion Ross
Inscription for Coidy
November
The uninvited
Aloneness
Who knows?
Camden poetry group
Dance
Dream
That silence
The perfect meeting
Why is it that
Accord
Thank you letter to Lee
Old Orchard: Canterbury
What a silence that is
Christmas week
I wish I could sweep the day
In the beginning of all
Paean of praise to infinity
Poem birth
Thank you poems for Lee
The great destroyer
Poem flowers
Advice to myself
Seed secrets
For the BBC 3 announcer Donald Price
Invocation to sleep
Sparrows in the park
Sparrows by the Serpentine
Snow and ice
Coldness
Warmth poem for teachers
Spiral prayer
The spiral
Brother
Brother query
Chosen words
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
The Jewish wedding: For Julie and Anthony

Handwritten rough drafts of poems

To the readers of my poems
On the new anthology
Mario
Eyes
In the last sleep
Spring calm
After the long forgetting
For Rosamund: On her poems
Remembering
One tear
Advice
The wrong
Guitarist
For Stuart: To a talented young man
Mysterious Britain
Microbalance
To a gifted artist
Spring nocturne
Cold spell
Held spring: nocturne
Michael MacLiamor
The answer
Reading a poem: For Eileen Warren
Why?
The Holy One
Contrast
Lull
Rejection
Inside: For Marion
Offering
Skin

Handwritten rough drafts of poems

Christmas Day 1906-1975
Telephone call
Day of birth
The apartment
The flat
Poem sequence
Milieu
Meeting
Hokku on anger
The carrier bag
Chincherinchees
In the confines of my garret room
Your gift: For Marion
For Denis
For Marion
Dream
The ghost
Ditty of disillusionment
Self-realization
Orthodox prayer
Stray cat Fred
The nightmare
I have tamed the tiger of my wrath
Journey through tigers
Prayer
Memorial day
In a dream
Baffled
Retirement
Lift the hand
Unseen poetry
The vision
On a poetry magazine 1976

Handwritten rough drafts of poems

The tidal Thames 11.30am
Thoughts in a church garden
River walk: Early Sunday morning
Early morning near Kew Bridge
River views
From a train window
Summer idyll
Reflections
The irony
Contrast: Leaving
Some silences can soothe
Kisses
Old age
Time and duty
Remember the centre and all is well
Let the rose speak
Sketches for a black notebook
Memories of a school [marm?]
St. Ives idyll: Summer 1977
Nostalgic sea poem
Dawn: St. Ives Cornwall 1977
The spider
Shell in a shop window
Prescription
Impromptu hokku for Denis

Handwritten rough drafts of poems

Impromptu hokku for Denis
Shell in a shop window: St. Ives 1977
Childhood summers: Takayama Japan
For Jeanne and Arthur
St. Ives: Dawn
For L.P.
Admonition
A new person
A poem emerges
Exploration
On writing a poem
For Lee
The sudden death
Transmission
Entry to Eden
A kiss is quicker
The garden
Possibilities for one retired
Birth of a poem
For Denis - the painter to thank him for the gift of a river landscape
Riverscape: A painting by Denis Ross
For Marion
Shrimp and duck letter
Dining out
Meal out: Half term 1978
Evening stroll by the river
Radio voices
River scenes
Radio miracle
Karajan conducting
Retirement alone
Aspects of retirement

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Whitsun verse
Aspects of retirement
Steiner (translation)
Gift from you
Michael meditation
River scenes
Green Park: Autumn
For Karl Schubert: Thirty years after October 1948
Autumn walk
Autumn river walk
Old age
Death taunts
After the fall
Beautiful British Columbia
Catapulted into disaster
Accident
Release: For J.R.D.
O receive them

Handwritten rough drafts of poems

For J.R.D.: Death day April 13th 1979
For Karl Schubert (met just once in 1948)
For Sally: On pictures of beautiful British Columbia
World at One
Pain has become my companion
River view geometry
River at sunset
Radio
Death day
Recollections of Takayama Japan
Childhood recollections
The maestro: Victor Borge
Sudden death in my room
1980 Valentine
Running races
For Ned Pratt and Healey [Willau?]
For Claire Pratt - the artist: On my wood-block print
Concern
For Lee
Nasturtium seeds
Moods
Quick snowstorm
Feather falling

Handwritten rough drafts of poems

Death taunts
Kinds of cold
Poem of thanks for a Christmas dinner
Kinds of warmth
Poem for Claire Pratt to thank her for an illustrated edition of some of my poems The kiss
of trust
The seal
Christmas 1981
Cynicism
God's messenger: The Pope's visit to England May 1982
Feather falling

Handwritten final drafts of poems

One word
Lacquer waves
Impatience
Time
Earth
Death
Disappointment
Fresh sprit
Hands
Statue
The fourth dimension
To Shakespeare
Paulowa
Days on board ship
Tea party
September 1930
The letter
Incongruity
The secret
On a new hat
At noon
Chap book
Verse
Last letter
The lone lamp
Triolet
To Roy
Laziness
Understanding
Ecstasy
Separation
September 5th
Memory
Sympathy
To Hazel Gorham
Easter bunny
Playfully, on a picture
On a returned book
Takarabune
Jewels

Handwritten final drafts of poems

Greeting
Full moon
Japanese April
Frost flowers
Morning glory
Revelry
Snow
Fuji
Wisteria
Dawn
Make me a fairy
Summer morning
Ducks
Spring
Weeping willow
Flower master
The willow
May
Temple quiet
Evening
Nojiri Lake
Rejuvenation
Dragonflies
Autumn's bride
Frolic
Moonlight
Seascape
Calm
Silken waters
Moonflower
Miko

Handwritten final drafts of poems

Miko no matsubara
One word
Autumn's bride
Revelry
Greeting
Lacquer waves
Prows
Sylvia
Moonflower
Dragonflies
Magnolia
Rejuvenation
Temple quiet
Temple bell
May
Spring
Japanese April
Takarabune

Handwritten final drafts of poems

Midnight
Sunset feast
Finale
Despair
Suicide
Ring
The Prisoner
Woman in the rain
Hate
To a four year old
Mr Smith
The organ
To F.C.E.
The visit
Peace
Hospital night

Fancy Free

Haven
Puzzle
Sorrow
Meridian day
Liu
Church of the crossroads
Orchid
Dress
So long had my hands
Disorder
Perhaps
The bond
Flower gift
Token
Hands
Pantomime
To a poem
Trouble
The knife
Soliloquy
To Hermione
The dance
Crown

Fancy Free

One word
The dance
Impatience
On a returned book
Hands
Midnight
Hospital night
Peace
Magnolia
Temple bell
Alma mater
Treasures
The class
Korean dancer
Ashes
Purchase
The question: Kumozan
Kumozan
Four poems: Bushido 1937
Recruits
Troop train
I cannot bear
White boxes
Japanese April
Summer morning
Summer evening
Flower master
Flower arrangement
Temple quiet
Dragonflies
Gift
Salutation
Puzzle
Sorrow
Meridian day mid-Pacific
Farewell Lei: Honolulu
Church of the crossroads: Honolulu
So long had my hands
Disorder
Christmas card
Flower gift: to F.H.
Autumn's bride
Words
Lacquer waves
Tea party
Time
Poems from the silk-bound illustrated edition of poems written in Japan 193-? [listed in
3-8]
Vignettes for Lee: Inspired by his gift
Kumozan
Takayama
Tokyo sudden storm
Shinto shrine
The Ise shrine
Joy browsers

Handwritten final drafts of poems

Task: For some in Class X 1949
To the tenth class of the Rudolf Steiner School, Edinburgh, 1949
The trap
Comment for Michael Calthop: Edinburgh
Jade piece
For Michael: September 11,1950
Crevice
Fossils
Answer
On the death of a young conscript
Finale
Autumn ride
On Stephen Spender reading his anthology
Poem for Christ's Day 1951
Design
Decision
Paris
Eiffel Tower
La Sainte-Chapelle
Crypt at Chartres
Chartres
Leaving poem for Class XII 1952
Christmas card 1952
Pattern
Timetable
Interlude
Tides
I call you across the deserts
Query
Each night
Spring afternoon
Potential
Christmas poem 1953
Christmas 1954
For the Vienna choristers
Poem for Penelope in answer to hers
Grace for meals
Figurine
Protest against your hands
Walk in Forest Row: New Year's Eve 1955
Poem for Michael Cocks: Seed poem for Michael
Not carapace but chrysalis
Goddess and madonna
Still in the distance is love
No weapon serves
Empty heart
Tell it to go
To L.T.
I know they say
Moments there are
Confusion
Kinship is proved
August 9, 1956: Poem for Sonke
Blow trumpets
Letter to Sonke
The miracle
Fulfillment
Impossible
Words
Book of poems
Poems
For Ned Pratt: I, II and III
Birthday card
Answer
Barometer
Surfaces
Withholding
Danger

Handwritten final drafts of poems

Rat race
Betrayal
Heart poison to-night
Hibernation
Outside
Winter morning
These words that I write
Caged
Words spoken
Poetry recital for Betty Mulcahy
Christopher: The dyslexic
Answer to advice: To Robert Gittings
For C. Day Lewis on his death: 29.5.72
To the publisher of poetry anthologies
Poem making
Parenthood
Said the tree
Spring Hokku
Cedar of Lebanon (Cedar Atlantis): Moor Park, July 1972
There is a stillness
Praise can come too late
Slavery
First meeting
The candle
Voice
Letter-poem
Words
Dilemma
Longing
Shy words
Words litany
Name
Flower
Tears
Shy
Fear can freeze
The pain
Many births, many deaths
Betrayal: The Blow
Cry
After sleep, Christ speaks to the heart
Words
Departure
The door
Dead
Brush with death
The dream
November morning
The wish
Thursday farewell: Eastern Orthodox Church
On the poems of 1972
To the poet Wen I-to
Holiday
Spring
Once
Incident in class
Dawn chorus
Experience
Secrets
Now and then
If you should try
Garret lodging in London
To myself on meeting a new friend through an enemy
Iceberg poems
Cedar Atlantis: II
The call
The birch trees
Cross-section: For Lee
For Lee: The grammarian
Rapport
Vacation postcard postscript
Blindness: On the mystery plays by Rudolf Steiner
For Lee: Joy
Lost Abby: Norfolk
For R.M.: Masseur
Concert
The proms
Slander
Acorn
Footnote to life
For Richard Austin's carnival

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Vladimir Bukovsky
River Views
-I At Kew Bridge
-II Seagulls
-III Inch-long stem
-IV One glint before sunfall
-V Tide turning
-VI Mallard on the move
-VII The swan
For Lee: On an Indian plaque from British Columbia
River scene
Deficient education
Observation
Thank you poems to Sylvia for Mother's Day flowers
The tidal Thames: 11.30am May 1977
Thoughts in a Church garden: May 1977
A poem
Silences: When the heart sorrows
After the gasping breath
The tidal Thames: River views X, Reflections
Reflections from a train window on the way to Edinburgh 1977
Summer idyll
The irony
My thoughts - my poems
For Rita
It will be good
What a glutton I am
On a friend's grandfather dying unconscious in a breathing machine
Kisses are not for now
Old age
On receiving Rita's watch
Thought wedded to word
Hokku for Denis: On receiving a gift
Let the rose speak
St. Ives Dawn
St. Ives Cornwall: Childhood summers remembered
The shell: Cornwall 1977 with Sally
Country scene: The orchard, October 1977
For Jeanne and Arthur Sutton
The kiss: Admonition to myself
On writing a poem
Christmas
For Lee
Exploration
Margaret le Guyt's poem: Thoughts on Joan
Thoughts on Joan: Continued
The garden
I live in your thought
A pen takes time (a kiss is quicker)
Possibilities (for the retired)
On the birth of a poem
For Marion
For Denis: To thank him for his painting
Meal out: Half term, February 1978
River scenes
-XI Swan
-XII Raindrops and rainbow
Radio voices
Query
Karajan conducting
Milestone memories
Forgetting
How to make excuse
For Jeanne Sutton: On a necklace from Crete
River scene XIII
River scenes XIV Tidal river
Each day may be
Autumn in Green Park
Words
Summer-long
After the fall
Death taunts

Handwritten final drafts of poems

For Karl Schubert (met only once in 1948): The founder of Steiner curative education
For Sally: On pictures of beautiful British Columbia
For J.R.D.: Death day April 13th 1979
Childhood recollection: Summer Takayama, Japan
River at sunset
River geometry at Kew
Good deed: For D.R
The World at One
Learn, soul
The Maestro: Victor Borge
Sudden death
Valentine
For Ashkenazy
From daybreak to dusk
Aeons ago
On my wood-block print: For Claire Pratt
Poems
For E.H.C.
Running races

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