Wednesday 28 April 2021

Michael Collins - d. April 28th 2021

Your name is circumlunar,
from light to dark to light, 
an orbit that can never decay.
Once the loneliest human
alive, this is your final flight
to a moon lit by eternal day.


Thursday 22 April 2021

Les McKeown - d. April 20th 2021

I could lament you, but why begin it?
There were still girls to have fun with,
if only for the briefest minute,
but we ran out of gangs to run with.
Bye bye to the past: now you are in it.

Wednesday 21 April 2021

Jim Steinman - d. April 19th 2021

 ...and I swear he's deader 
than the death 
of the American dream.
Yes I swear he's deader
than the death
of the American dream.
Dream!
Dream!
Deader than the death!
Deader than the death!
Death!
Death!
Death Death Death Death Death
of the American 
Dree-eee-eeam!


Sunday 18 April 2021

Peter Terson - d. April 8th 2021

I learned a trade from you;
how the dirt and melodrama
of the ugly game was nothing
to the poetry of terraces and kops.
And you really shook them up,
and we shall be, 
we shall all be moved.

Friday 16 April 2021

Helen McCrory - d. April 16th 2021

What materials: voice
like the slitting of lace,
eyes like quiet fireworks,
every glance speaking
of quiet feminine steel
and a gypsy’s curse.

Monday 12 April 2021

Shirley Williams - d. April 12th 2021

Whatever stripe you wear
in the chambers of possibility, 
you cannot simply be,
you must do; change course
when the path blurs, veers;
find new ways for your cause.