Category Archives: Poetry

Shorter Poems 1969-2022

Posted on July 14, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

I have set up my Shorter Poems as a Heyzine Link. Click on the link to read.

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Intermezzo

Posted on July 9, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

Intermezzo TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Nini Patte-en-l’Air (Casino de Paris’) x The gold Casino’s Spring parterre Flowers with the Spring, this golden week; Glady, Toloche, Valtesse, are there; But all eyes turn as one to seek The drawers … Continue reading →

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Charybdis

Posted on July 5, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x Bayesian, the name of that yacht. Elementary, my dear Wat! Scilla and Charybdis frequent the strait at Messina. Water-spouts round Sicily are nothing new, it seems to me. Another old dilemma has still to be resolved in the wake … Continue reading →

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Why “Runiad”?

Posted on June 17, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

Why Runiad as the title of the epic poem I have just completed? Rune is a word which may be translated as ‘a secret, a mystery, a rumour or a whisper’. It can also suggest an enigmatic or incantatory line … Continue reading →

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Earth Day 2025 – Kristian Evans and Nathan Roach

Posted on June 9, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPkBj7X1dfQ A Film by Kristian Evans & Nathan Roach This is one of the best poem/films I have come across. It often uses a constant moving image (reeds moving, waves breaking etc) which I have always found the ideal backdrop … Continue reading →

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The Runiad – books 1 – 24 – Updated Update

Posted on May 31, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

The final draft of my epic poem the Runiad is now completed. Click on the link to read Books 1 to 24: This link above opens the final version with my own illustrations. Since they are done with graphite on … Continue reading →

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Rhododendron

Posted on May 22, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x It is always the same window, one out of which they have climbed Into the garden; leaving the house to its dreams at the fringes of sleep: Out of it by the back stairs or in by my half … Continue reading →

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From Book 7 of The Runiad

Posted on May 18, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x At a time when St. Francis was staying in the town of Gubbio, There appeared in that region a wolf so maddened by lack of a meal It took to devouring humans as well as beasts in the wild. … Continue reading →

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Memories of an Island

Posted on May 16, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

Memories of a idyllic island on the Green Coast of Brazil. X ….Things that prefer to be hidden from us, without the effrontery Of the small seven-coloured birds that flit through the quiet, Perch for a sec on a branch … Continue reading →

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A Serpentine

Posted on May 13, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

As well as the scansion of a regular metre such as pentameter, in verse, the madrigal was a form that used the scansion of prime numbers – 3 and 5. F.T. Prince has pointed this out in his book about … Continue reading →

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