To John Clare (“The Peasant Poet???)

Michael Peach

O gentle John, please show me how
To be compassionate as thou;
So, when the world ignores my verse,
I’ll sing of love, not vainly curse.

Jerusalem
13 January 1994

Without that Muse who once did him inspire, When he

Palistrael, the Anima and Soul Could Armageddon thwart And men

Some thirteen years ago a hell-bent horde Of bearded Yankee

The truth’s now clear, and duly shocks me: Israel’s America’s

The truth’s now clear, and duly shocks me:Israel’s America’s sacred

Because King Donald the Election won,The Tenth Crusade has finally