11 September 2022
By Philip Kuepper
Death has passed the sceptre
from matriarch to son,
down the long descendant
line of inheritance,
in famed England,
seven decades of a reign flowing
into veins that flow
with the pulse of the Thames,
the river’s pulse beating unimpeded
through millennia of time,
that crowns each head
of one who sits enthroned,
crowns each head
of one who anchors
the ship of state in the river
of time, Thames-robed,
in this all too temporal world.
(10 September 2022)