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Sunday 24 September 2023

Luminous intensity

The sun strikes from high above

Thirty years or more ago

At university or in love

We spoke of Lumens

His law, or the glow 

Of Luminous intensity


Immense then the density

Of the obnoxious teenager

Leaning against the bar

In a daring unfair refrain

A peacock on the prowl

A scowl for all authority


Some things never change

And some things stay the same


Rising in the east

And setting in the west

Concave or convex

The arc between

The sunrise and sunset

Is blessed


Intense then the

Propensity of youth

Now spent, fenced too far

In darings unfair domain

A hippopotamus with a growl

Cheek by jowl to then remain


Some things never change

And some things stay the same



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