PinnedJohn E MarksGérard Manley Hopkins SJOn this flaming day in June, with such beautiful pagan mountains rising all around, I felt your uncertain presence in this bastion of the…·1 min read·Dec 18, 2022--6--6
PinnedJohn E MarksinThe Lark PublicationWaiting for NovemberHis headstone verses were writ in wine·1 min read·Sep 23, 2021--6--6
PinnedJohn E MarksThe unsaidWind cuts through this January night Slices like a knife through my meagre clothes. Signs on the road hidden by an iron fog The cry of…·1 min read·Feb 7, 2021--8--8
PinnedJohn E MarksJohn Keats 31 October 1795– 23 February 1821Melancholy’s lack of zest written all over his palimpsest: to die at twenty-five to some will hardly seem to have been alive, but for…·1 min read·Apr 19, 2021--3--3
John E MarksLifting the Veil by John E Marks 1997 NHI: antiquarian poetry for the discerning non-conforming…Published by New Hope International (NHI) in 1997. Illustrations by Clinton Cahill — thank you Clint!·2 min read·2 days ago--2--2
John E MarksinThe Howling OwlWICCA, WITCH, WIZARD— at the centre of what is —·1 min read·3 days ago--1--1
John E MarksinThe Howling OwlWalking solo— Who the hell can see forever? —·1 min read·3 days ago--3--3
John E MarksinScuzzbucketStormy weatherThere’s only so much reading you can do, even at night, during a storm, so much listening as storms rumble by I am so high I remember…·1 min read·5 days ago--2--2