Prophetic Art (1)

Michael Peach

Europe’s impulse is erotic,
Israel’s at heart prophetic;
In Britannia I’m chaotic,
In Jerusalem poetic.

This of course would be ironic,
If my poesy were Byronic
Rather than, let’s say, Miltonic –
Namely moral and sermonic.

Jerusalem
25 December 1993

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