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Drawing upon personal events, Clarke invites readers of his poetry to meet a romantic and sensitive soul. He explores death and desire, questions what it means to be good, and pays homage to the divine and nature, observing it with impressionist intensity. Moreover, the language is simple, yet blended with the ornate to create poetry of great beauty.
Aaron J Clarke
Aaron Clarke was born in Queensland on 24th January 1973, the middle child of two sisters. Like many other children, he watch a lot of television. Then one day he changed the channel to the ABC and saw "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Immediately taken aback by the lyrical beauty, he wanted to emulate Shakespeare.Aaron enrolled at James Cook University to study chemistry and biochemistry. In his second year he experienced his first psychotic episode and was hospitalised for several months. A year later he returned to JCU as an English student and started writing short stories and poems, which have been published in student publications and on the Internet.Please contact me at < aaron.clarke@my.jcu.edu.au > to discuss your opinions regarding my work, as I would greatly appreciate your point of view. Please address your questions as 'Reader Feedback' in the subject line of your email. Thanks, Aaron.
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Selected Poems - Aaron J Clarke
Selected Poems
Aaron J Clarke
Smashwords Edition
© 2014 Aaron J Clarke
All rights reserved.
To Cheryl, Jacqui and Florence
whose help and friendship is greatly appreciated.
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Table of Contents
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Night Dwells In My Heart
A Blissful Summer
Untitled 2
Three Haikus
Love’s Divine Song
Rapture
Tenderness
Regret
The Idol of Man’s Desire
Love & Death
Le Magicien Divin
World in Words
Untitled 3
A Poem
Untitled 4
A Gloomy Look
Ode to the Republic
Untitled 5
Jazz
Untitled 6
The Gleaming Eyes that Steal Away the Soul of Man
Physical & Spiritual Death
The Decay of Beauty
A Field of Lilies
An Unpolished Diamond
The Devil Within Us
Lion Hunters
A Dog’s Life
Desire
Untitled 1
Day breaks upon the rocks of time. Poisonous plumes spread across the bay infecting everything, everyone in its suffocating spray.
Hands clap like hooves upon the ground. Dark streams streak aqueous air with eager expectation. Octopus served with wine at dinner.
Odalisque salsas in silvery light whose alluring stare attracts sailors to their doom.
Night Dwells In My Heart
In a cavernous chamber with its pale yellow walls and many books on shelves, I try to remember your face. Time, however, has erased it.
I hear the ringing of