Nowhere else to go
We recognise the shapes
Circle square rectangle dot
What more then to show
We wear the capes
Mountain sea river spot
Most days I would try to write a poem; it is a practice, as I suppose is meditation, or smiling, or watching the world go by
Nowhere else to go
We recognise the shapes
Circle square rectangle dot
What more then to show
We wear the capes
Mountain sea river spot
There is a tree
I wish to find
Which I last climbed
In Nineteen-Sixty-Three
The end of the fool
I passed the Eleven-plus
Travelled by Baddeley’s bus
To Penistone Grammar School
It was a time of fear
Innocence was raised
Nightmares invaded
Eyes and mind once so clear
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If my son
Could be fishing here
He’d think his day had come
With thoughts of the low pass weir
And you my friendly reed
How is it for you to zoom
On this balmy, sunshine indeed
August afternoon
What is that throttled whistling bird
Not too too far away
Yes it was the shrill that I heard
But hey, you have your own style of play
Of all the women who I have known
One would like this place the best
With a poem her love would come to own
Unlike the dream scales of the rest
Perhaps we would lie
Upon the circular benches
Effortless, no need to try
Steadied by our lover’s senses