1948-2023 . Retired Statistician, Poet, author, historian and campaigner. Co-founder of International Society for Bayesian Analysis and of the Edinburgh All Comers Writers Club and Participant in the 2019 UCL Eugenics Inquiry.
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015
SHARAKU, a sonnet by James L.S. Carter
SHARAKU
by James L.S.Carter
To capture actors' grimaces with lines
And trace the textures of their lineaments
Expose the part that the man underlines
And with a colour betray a sixth sense.
To shade in character and capture thought
All with an individual voice and style
To paint a mood, in action horror caught,
Or all the geisha's pleasures to beguile.
This have I found in you and more besides
With eyebrows floating in a moon of face,
The villain or the hero, charm, disgrace,
The scorn that pities or care that derides,
Great artist, let a sister art supply
The admiring praise of the admiring eye.
Copyright: James L.S.Carter July 2015
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