Tag Archives: poetry

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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THE RUNIAD – Books 1 to 23 – (Now completed – 24)

Posted on May 9, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

Books 1 to 24 (now) of my (now completed) epic poem can now be read on this Heyzine link I suggest expanding the image and turning off the sound of a page-turn. Click the bottom right corner of the page … Continue reading →

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The Island off the Green Coast

Posted on April 28, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x x x x And to this post I am now adding a section from Book 23 of my poem The Runiad: x Now here seems far away from the pressing urgency Experienced in the West. Sure it’s an illusion, … Continue reading →

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The Runiad – Books 1 to 22

Posted on April 18, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x To read this epic in progress, please click this Heyzine link. Book 22 was written in Rio de Janeiro. I suggest expanding the image and turning off the sound. Click the bottom corner of the page to turn the pages, … Continue reading →

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The Gale

Posted on April 12, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

x But now the streets get emptied. Everyone exits. It’s the rain, mistily thin this afternoon, but still with The ability to soak one. Rain which began last night, Drumming in a syncopated fashion on the ventilator fixed Into my … Continue reading →

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Lavinia – an excerpt from The Runiad published now in The High Window

Posted on April 11, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

Very pleased that this has now been published in The High Window magazine! x Added note: The completed RUNIAD can now be read by clicking here This final version contains my own illustrations

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Villa Venturoza – Rio de Janeiro

Posted on April 9, 2025 by anthonyhowelljournal

And now I am drifting, drifting away from the relevance Of impending affairs, even though there are whole towns Burning down elsewhere, but here… here old men gather to chat And play chequers, seated on plastic chairs behind pineapples and … Continue reading →

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