I Wonder How
When penning subtle poetry
I wonder how I came to be
the pale stockbroker all may see!
I’ll not accept captivity,
would fain forego every penny
I earn to stay completely free...
18 March 1975
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poem by Jonathan Robin
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Point of View
Disappearance may be seen as blacked
inflexion of the light, as true reflection
at once restores to insight all that's lacked,
nor contradictions shows. On introspection
enlightenment returns, is stored in...tact...
10 November 1992
poem by Jonathan Robin
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Ripple
Ripple runs through circles till
It meets another ripple’s will, -
Perhaps it overrides the first,
Perhaps subsides, perhaps both burst.
Life, likewise, ripples, never still,
Eternal circles stream Time’s thirst...
21 August 1995
poem by Jonathan Robin
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Word World Images
Poetic artist intuitively disposes
word world images transcending accepted meanings.
Magic superposes facettes prismatic, proposes music
surfeit. Seurat’s points paint interactions -
shows all is one, one all - key cues man’s heart.
poem by Jonathan Robin
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Nothing
As nature hates a vacuum NOTHING can
be but a figment fragment second-guessed.
Reality and dreams combine, their quest
is thus to banish NOTHING then to scan
creation's vastness, joining man to man,
surmounting surface difference with zest.
poem by Jonathan Robin
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The Eagle
He grasps red flag with crookèd hands,
ring’d by a freer world disbands,
the sickly sickle’s final lands.
The starving masses plight appalls,
while he, within the Kremlin walls
their doom prepares - before he falls.
17 December 1991
poem by Jonathan Robin
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On Sonnet CXVI - Parody William Shakespeare
True Love cannot change
the object of affection, -
but new loves oft exchange
their subjects on reflection…
Sonnet CXVI
L’Amour vrai ne change jamais,
a un sujet, fidelité.
Mais le léger échangerait
ses sujets souvent, à son gré…
poem by Jonathan Robin
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Po-antic Place Arose
PO-ANTIC PLACE AROSE
An anglo-saxon author, artist, ace
Poet prominent proposes prose,
Anthology angelic and, apace,
Posts popular poem, power, poise, pose,
Anthem adds alliteration aggrace.
19 April 2005
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The Eagle’s Second Cousin
He strides the stage in gartered bands,
Close to his Lady, he expands,
yet soon to earth with bump he lands.
A sea of sound surrounds the stalls
He hearkens - though each hiss appalls -
And takes a bow to harsh cat-calls!
27 December 1995
poem by Jonathan Robin
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Monkeying
Where women of worth, true, have ever been rare,
men rarer than rubies are, so it would seem,
mankind might to monkey return - fair is fair -
to try once again to accomplish God's dream
of a race whose trace shines as ace team.
(18 April 2010)
poem by Jonathan Robin
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