Muse by Craig Ranapia

Testy.

fie !
Or kill ?

Elizabeths 2 in honour of Elizabeth II,
A nominal
B'day rather than D-day?

C between, the Question?
Oblique link
Perversely to 9-line mass, not
E-matching triplets.

So many goodly states and kingdoms seen
in Denmark/Copenhagen in the cycling thread,
I was tempted yesterday to post a poem as if commenting thereon,
but it doesn't really, and belongs better here, couched beside the sea.
From that lesser known Michael Jackson, expatriate NZer –
rather too much of the South Island myth, and I feel comfortable in the wilderness, but still, I like it much –

Living Abroad

We exiles miss its landscapes most.
1° in Copenhagen and I count the cost
of having no hills to walk on
or an ironsand beach, that mystery
of the physical – four elements
rather than ruins or runic stones –
but would not want its emptiness again,
that unflagging sense that one is not oneself
with wilderness, and needs the depths
of history to fathom where one stands
and still may go.