The Longest Month and Other Poems
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Does what I write have anything to do
With the fact I find it difficult to wait
To see you again, and again to worship you
For your beauty, wit, and energetic gait?
O my belaboured doldrum, dissipate!
Let Time bequeath new models when I see
You standing at the station as you wait
For me to see you first, or you see me!
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About the Book
Inside a Toronto apartment with a view of Lake Ontario and a hillside covered with trees, seasoned poet David Murray penned his tenth collection of lyrical verse—somehow meeting a lofty goal of writing one hundred poems in thirty days.
While waiting for a rendezvous at a train station with a recently widowed friend, Murray passed the time during the longest month of his life by fueling his creativity and writing mostly sonnets that cover a variety of subjects and emotions. Murray’s poems not only explore feelings of anticipation, grief and hope but also the unpredictable beauty of nature as spring attempts to make an entrance, the questions that arise while gazing at old photographs and the unforeseen as distant lovers wait for an event.
The Longest Month and Other Poems share a seasoned poet’s reflections as he contemplates the past, present and the possibilities of a new beginning.
About the Author
David J. Murray was raised in Manchester, England, and earned a doctorate at the University of Cambridge. He is emeritus professor of psychology at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, and a resident of Toronto. Dr. Murray is the author of nine other books as well as several articles and encyclopedia entries.