July, already!
How time flies!
I am aware that I have expressed the sentiment "How time flies!" seven hundred and eighty-four million three hundred and sixty-eight thousand nine hundred and seventy-two times before; but that is because it has impressed itself upon me so strongly and so frequently that I have felt it necessary to reiterate the sentiment.
I do apologize for the infrequency with which I have (a) written poetry, (b) published poetry, (c) published journal entries, (d) commented on your various masterpieces. I have been through a long phase of difficulties, which, indeed, is not altogether over; and, indeed, when one is twenty years old or so, it can be a difficult time, as decisions have to be made, and so many changes come upon one that one can feel rather as though one is drowning in the sea. This has perhaps, for reasons into which I shall not now go, been particularly pronounced in my own case.
Now that we are in July, 2009, it is my intention to write a poem a day. I don't know how long this resolution will last, but it seems to be working all right so far.

I miss some of the friends I used to know, whom I have not seen for a long time. This grieves me.


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I have thought it a good idea to compile a list of my poems on DeviantArt, so that they can be reached more easily than if you had to plough through my gallery.

Poems

No. 1. Time: [link]
No. 2. Sun and Moon: [link]
No. 3. Snow: [link]
No. 4. I Hate this Weather: [link]
No. 5. Stars: [link]
No. 6. The Seasons of the Year: [link]
No. 7. A Dark Poem: [link]
No. 8. The Forgotten Dream: [link]
No. 9. De Rerum Natura: [link]
No. 10. And we beheld his glory: [link]
No. 11. Recurrent Seasons: [link]
No. 12. On the Inception of the CRGS Philosophy Society: [link]
No. 13. Computers: [link]
No. 14. Death and Life: [link]
No. 15. Procrastination: [link]
No. 16. To the Muse of Poetry: [link]
No. 17. Nothing: [link]
No. 18. The Injured Writer: [link]
No. 19. Vicious Circle: [link]
No. 20. Loquitur anima: [link]
No. 21. Life: Sonnet: [link]
No. 22. Early Morning Stillness; or, On looking out of his window early in the morning, entranced by birdsong:
[link]
No. 23. The Swan: [link]
No. 24. Fleeting Time: [link]
No. 25. My tale provokes that question: [link]
No. 26. Meteorology: [link]
No. 27. The Room: [link]
No. 28. Poetical Prose: [link]
No. 29. The Spark of Life: [link]
No. 30. Illness: [link]
No. 31. Inspiration: [link]
No. 32. To the Reader: [link]
No. 33. Sleep: [link]
No. 34. April: [link]
No. 35. On this green hillside: [link]
No. 36. What is a poet?: [link]
No. 37. Intended to be Today's Last: [link]
No. 38. Sheep: [link]
No. 39. Perspective: [link]
No. 40. It is the poet's duty: [link]
No. 41. The Red Squirrel: [link]
No. 42. The Deserted Village: [link]
No. 43. The poet, walking over hill: [link]
No. 44. EASTER TRILOGY: (1) Good Friday: [link]
(2) Easter Even: [link]
(3) Easter Day: [link]
No. 45. May: [link]
No. 46. In Imitation of Free Verse: [link]
No. 47. The Lusty Month of May: [link]
No. 48. Written during a Downpour: [link]
No. 49. Early in the Morning: [link]
No. 50. Note to BrerAnansi: [link]
No. 51. The Summer Sun: [link]
No. 52. Music, a roundelay: [link]
No. 53. Time rolls by: [link]
No. 54. Melancholia: [link]
No. 55. The Insomniac: [link]
No. 56. Hell and Heaven: [link]
No. 57. Evening: [link]
No. 58. London: a Sonnet: [link]
No. 59. Music: [link]
No. 60. English Assignment: [link]
No. 61. The End: [link]
No. 62. Homesickness?: [link]
No. 63. A Confession: [link]
No. 64. 666 Pageviews: [link]
No. 65. God moves in a mysterious way: [link]
No. 66. The Lord of the Terrible Land: [link]
No. 67. Luna: [link]
No. 68. To Ludwig van Beethoven: [link]
No. 69. 'I write these lines upon a sheet of paper': [link]
No. 70. On reading from a book: [link]
No. 71. Who would be a newsreader?: [link]
No. 72. Andantino: [link]
No. 73. Introspection: [link]
No. 74. A Colchester Nocturne: [link]
No. 75. De Morte Magni Instituti: [link]
No. 76. This Too Shall Pass: [link]
No. 77. "Real Men Don't Cry": [link]
No. 78. Proficiscere de hoc mundo: [link]
No. 79. Conscience: [link]
No. 80. A Late Evening Poem: [link]
No. 81. Sic fatus: [link]
No. 82. The Journey Home: [link]
No. 83. A Parody of Keats: [link]
No. 84. After Aquinas: [link]
No. 85. To a Book by C.S. Lewis: [link]
No. 86. Et homo factus est: [link]
No. 87. "Lies and False": [link]
No. 88. Ce qu'on entend: [link]
No. 89. The Battle of Flodden Field: [link]
No. 90. To Saint Augustine of Hippo: [link]
No. 91. The Legend of St Dorothea: [link]
No. 92. To a Seagull: [link]
No. 93. A Consolation: [link]
No. 94. A Sonnet: [link]
No. 95. Twilight: [link]
No. 96. The Killing of the King: [link]
No. 97. Sehnsucht: [link]
No. 98. Hypergraphia: [link]
No. 99. Righteous Indignation: [link]
No. 100. To Jesus Christ: [link]
No. 101. To the Mother of God: [link]
No. 102. To Our Lord at Dawn: [link]
No. 103. Some Heretics: [link]
No. 104. Answer to Prayer: [link]
No. 105. To a Day: [link]
No. 106. The Transience of Life: [link]
No. 107. Into Thy Hands: [link]
No. 108. Over the Sea: [link]
No. 109. Some More Heretics: [link]


THE GHOST OF RUSSELL SQUARE
(an unfinished ballad in seven parts)
Part the First: [link]
Part the Second: [link]
Part the Third: [link]
Part the Fourth: [link]
Please be patient, the rest will come (eventually).
Note: I do not know whether the Ghost of Russell Square is worth continuing. It is such execrable rubbish that it is probably better off transferred to scraps.

Translations
Mes vers fuiraient, doux et frêles: [link]
Horace Odes I.xx: [link]

Essays

The Thinker (complete)
Dedication: [link]
#1 (Tuesday, 2nd May, 2006): [link]
#2 (Saturday, 6th May, 2006): [link]
#3 (Tuesday, 9th May, 2006): [link]
#4 (Saturday, 13th May, 2006): [link]
#5 (Tuesday, 16th May, 2006): [link]
#6 (Saturday, 20th May, 2006): [link]
#7 (Tuesday, 23rd May, 2006): [link]
#8 (Saturday, 27th May, 2006): [link]
#9 (Tuesday, 30th May, 2006): [link]
#10 (Saturday, 3rd June, 2006): [link]
#11 (Tuesday, 6th June, 2006): [link]
#12 (Saturday, 10th June, 2006): [link]
#13 (Tuesday, 13th June, 2006): [link]
#14 (Saturday, 17th June, 2006): [link]
#15 (Tuesday, 20th June, 2006): [link]
#16 (Saturday, 24th June, 2006): [link]
#17 (Tuesday, 27th June, 2006): [link]
#18 (Saturday, 1st July, 2006): [link]
#19 (Tuesday, 4th July, 2006): [link]
#20 (Saturday, 8th July, 2006): [link]

Literary Criticism
Analysis of a Sonnet by Sidney: [link]

Miscellaneous Essays
2 + 2: [link]
Theological Thoughts: [link]
Against the Humanist: [link]
On Traffic Jams: [link]
On Appreciation: [link]
On Paganism: [link]
On Reading: [link]

Meditations:
The Sign of the Cross: [link]

Reviews
Books
James Joyce: Dubliners: [link]
Films
The Da Vinci Code: [link]
Plays
Michael Frayn: Donkeys' Years: [link]
Musicals
Princess Ida: [link]
Television
Eurovision: [link]

Prose Fiction
Arabian Nights Imitation: [link]
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