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Twenty Five Lyrical Poems by Walter Rufus Eagles [1934- ] [USA] [Southern]

Twenty five selections spanning five decades.  This page, and the site as a whole, is dedicated to the memory of my high school English teacher, Mrs. Mabel Fletcher Harrison, of Verda School, who taught me to love poetry and Shakespeare. 

• Allemande for a Student Jazz Musician Recently Turned Farmer [1959] [0:59]

• Annunciation of Alexander [1958] [0:37] from a Plutarch anecdote

• Dialogue with Tape and Memory [1976] [2:15] for Randy Wallace, singer / songwriter

• Elegy for the Singing Nun [1985] [1:50] for Sister Sourire, singer / songwriter, upon learning of her suicide

• Forces of the Oak [1984] [1:43]

• Gloria in Excelsis [1977] [0:43] for Nobuyuki Shirota [note]

• Easter 1967 [0:39]

• Gulley Jimson's Visionary Wall [1959] [1:45] [note]

• Her First Poem: For Jan at Twenty One  [1985] [0:39] [note]

• His Epitaph [1977] [1:06] for my old good friend, John Louis Miller

• May Time Poem for Mary [1983] [1:05]

• Midnight Toccata [1959] [0:16]

• Poem for Marilu on the Occasion of St. Valentine's Day [1985] [1:07]

• Poem for My Sons on the Occasion of the Falklands Crisis [1982] [1:23] for Randol & David

• Psalm: De Profundis Clamavi [1984] [1:46] a ride aboard Los Angeles RTD Bus 93

• Solar Snapshot [1987] [1:45]

• Sonnet: Antigone [1982] [0:52] [teenage daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta] [note]

• Sonnet: Clytaemnestra [1982] [0:51] [wife of Agamemnon & mother of Iphigenia]

• A Still Life of Giacometti's [1969] [0:46]

• This Ring, Not Gold [1988] [1:08] for my wife, Marilu

• War Chorus: Reunion That Never Was [2003] [2:33] for Kenneth McReynolds, USMC (killed "after the action" in Korea in 1954) [text and sound]

• Song of the Virtual Poet on Christmas Day 2003, 2004 [Adobe PDF File]   Sound File [2:06]

• Cheese Fruitcake for Christmas: text & audio 
  audio only [2:50] R

• Song for Marilu [1:18] [1977] [Part One: Stanzas 1 and 2] PDF File.

Walter with the late Shashka in 1988

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