Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

[Phil Talbot]

(Hope-less & Hap-less does ‘A.G.an’ wend ...
But to ‘pro-crastinate’ his/her ‘life’-less ‘end’.)

[Phil Talbot]

Longinus: ... Homer in the Odyssey is like the “Setting Sun/Son($0ng)” ... the ‘Grandeur’ (o’th’Illiad) remains, but not the ‘INTENSITY’ ...

[Phil Talbot]

Heritage ire/is-land.
Under the blood-red Aegean Sun,
Ripples lap shingle(s)
- once WAVES ATE ROCK(s)!
(So long/many?!)

[Phil Talbot]

Ah ‘LOVE’, let us be true, now, at last,
We were, from the start, part of each other’s past ...

[Phil Talbot]

Pretending to be ‘happily holiday-making’,
We swim together in calm, cooling seas,
(&) lie on bead-gravel(led) beaches, kissing;
Share(ing) lives, a towel, iced teas/teaZe(d).

[Phil Talbot]

FreeZe the scene for the camera (obscura?), please:
Smiles are ‘in- evitable’: see us caper!
‘LOVE’ U.N.doubtable - what went wrong went wrong later ...
Then ... O’(h), ‘JOY’ came to eye with U.N.forced eaZe ...

[Phil Talbot]

And when we went that night to our separated single(s) beds
(As we had done on the previous ten)
Circumstances ‘excused’ reality: High Season,
So no double(s) on offer - troubling thoughts(&feelings) could lie apart ...

[Phil Talbot]

Your ‘sum-mation’, plain, to avoid ‘con-fusion’:
We came, in the end, to a ‘natural conclusion’.

[Phil Talbot]

“... don’t say a prayer for/4/fore me now ...
... save I u.n.‘TIL the morning/mourning after ...”

[Phil Talbot]

I will quote B.thee.us/Boethius, which is not (u.n.)like Pope’s ‘essay on man’:
“If you would see
God’s Laws with Purest Mind,
Your sight on Heaven might be,
Whose settled course the stars peace b(l)ind;
The Sun’s Bright Fire
Stops not his Sister’s Team,
Nor does the Northern Bear desire
Within the ocean’s wave to/2 hide his/her beam.”

[Phil Talbot]

(Chaucer’s tranZ<llit’Ration>o’B.Thee.U.S.?!)
Tho’ she beholds
The other ‘stars’ crouching,
Yet she is incessantly rolled
About High Heaven - The Ocean never touching ...

[Phil Talbot]

The Evening Light
With certain course does show(s)
The coming of the shady night,
And (Sir.Vents o’) Lucifer comes before Day goes ...
Out.

[Phil Talbot]

This mutual love
Courses eternal makes,
And the starry spheres above,
All cause of war (&DangerousDiscord) takes ...

[Phil Talbot]

This sweet consent
In equal bands tie
The nature of each element,
So that moist yields into dry.

The piercing cold(s),
With flames friendship heaps
The trembling fire highest place holds,
And the Gross Earth sinks into the  Deeps.

[Phil Talbot]

The Flowering {;)}New Year
Breathes Odour into The Spring,
And then ... the Scorching Summer
Sends Autumn Fruit from Laden Trees to bring ...