time & tide - freshly illustrated poem

Listening to Stochausen with Colin (aged 14 months)

Towards An Autocratic State - a poem (impromptu response to a High Court ruling)

Towards An Autocratic State

(apropos the ruling against the CWU)

Greater love hath no judge

than to lay down the law

against the working man –

Thou shalt not interfere

with the profiteers

whom we have gifted with

these former assets

of the nation state

Malcolm Evison

12 October 2017

Dazzled Dilemma

Proprietary Rites

PROPRIETARY RITES

These aches, these cruel

crucifying pains

do not belong to me -

today they own me,

clamping my lower limbs

in their psychotic embrace.

Through throbbing knees

and tiresome aching hips

they pour out scorn

on all my hopes

of overcoming;

today, they overwhelm me.

Malcolm Evison

14 September 2017

(Draft V)

A Noble Silence - illustrated poem by Malcolm Evison

   
                          A Noble Silence (2007) illustrated August 2017 - Malcolm Evison

THOUGHT and PRAYER two vintage poems - freshly illustrated

PRAYER - a poem - Malcolm Evison 1970

THOUGHT - a poem - Malcolm Evison (1960's)

For These Small Mercies (we proffer thanks)

For These Small Mercies (we proffer thanks)

Today, so far at least,

is one of gentle shattered-ness;

welcome relief

from yesterday’s griping

pain and aches.

An ever present undertow,

of generalized discomfort,

still leaves the space

for a richly varied range

of sensory attacks.

Will it be muscles,

joints, gastritis, or other

less easily defined

components of

the neurological kind.

Today at least

I have enjoyed a time

of gentle relaxation,

an ease of body

and a calmer mind.

                                          Malcolm Evison

                               20 July 2017

REVISITING SHEPP - Illustrated Poem

A Question of Balance

Man For His Age - a poem

    MAN FOR HIS AGE

Care-worn he leads

his guilt free life,

turns fears

into a bar-room joke –

he never fails

though sometimes falls

a victim to

“the changing times”.

Suburban heroes never weep,

they share with celluloid

an inability to bleed.

He veils his sorrows in

a sentimental song

and never sins –

his standards are complete

and up to date.

A true son

of a dying race.

                Malcolm Evison

ADAM & EVE - two poems (overlaid on painting)