Monday, January 13, 2003

In The Virgins Comments

Rating: 3.0

You can't put in the ground swell of the organ
from the Christiansted, St.Croix, Anglican Church
behind the paratrooper's voice: 'Turned cop
after Vietnam. I made thirty jumps.'
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Derek Walcott
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Dr Antony Theodore 23 June 2020

Like neon lasers shot across the bars discos blast out the music of the spheres, and, one by one, science infects the stars.- a very good poem. tony

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Michael Walker 24 November 2019

An appealing poem of the sea and changes in scene to Flanders and Lancashire. The effect which English preachers had in the West Indies is hinted at.

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Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott

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