The gleaming clouds
Murray Alfredson (Author)
Alfredson has many moods, many dictions, many themes. He at once glories in and laments the ephemeral, the only lasting quality in his world. This harmonises with his Buddhist outlook on life. His is a religious sensibility that draws, however, on many traditions and myths, one of respect for all beings, the soils, the rocks, the plants, the people and other animals, the living, the dead
eBook, English, 2013
IP (Interactive Publications), Carindale, Qld., 2013
Poetry
1 online resource
9781922120427, 1922120421
836643234
Front Cover; Prelims; Author Bio; Author Photo; Inside Title; Imprint Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Foreword; Myth and reflection; Of gods and truths; Isaac's boyhood; When Elohim through Moses; Agnus dei; Prince of Peace; Skull-locked; Sky message; In the confessional; At confession; Medusa; Stolen; Tristan and Isolde; Swansong; Soil gâthâs; No matter were it quilled; Turns; Händel's Royal Fireworks Suite; Rhinorhapsody; Needles; Bi- meets uni-polar; Pockets cut from silver cloth; Grey kangaroo; Women of the world, unite; Suits; In the line of duty; Road kill. Still for reapingSongs of joy, sorrow and equanimity; Catullus capers; Abelard to Heloise; Soaked in; The sandwich; Epitaph; Drag of dying; A valediction; Ring; Heaviness of bone; Young bones; Labelled; Eirênikon to Irene; Old bones; or, Irene's aneirene; Quietus thoughts; The besom branches; Kangaroo paws; Eagles; Geometry; Five miniature glimpses; Wren; Translations; Saws from the Hávamál; Naught seems so good; The Kürenberger's falcon song; Dawn song; On the linden above; Celebration of Spring; Presence; Hyperion's song of destiny; When I was a lad; To the sungod; Farewell; Back Cover