Lost, Not Found

I retrace my steps

Perhaps

If I had bought a blue pencil

Or an orange pencil

Then the lost cap

Would have been easier to spot

I will buy a blue pencil

Or orange

Or whatever bright colour they have in stock

I won’t buy another black one

That would only seem to compound the error

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Lost And Found

I slow down

In search of my pencil cap

I hear the singular warbler

I hear

And then see

Another aeroplane

I hear

But don’t see

The cars on the coast road

This is a well trod path

One day a little child

May come across my pencil cap

And may ask its parents

What sort of person

Might have left this here

The child’s parent

If mindful, and imaginative

May tell a story

Of the old man, from far away

Who came here one day in winter

To write, and take photographs

In his excitement, also due to

His inability to do two things at once

He lost the pencil cap

And no matter how slowly

He walked the muddy path

The cap was not found, until today

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Lost Again

One might call it graceful

Except for its sound balloon

Some way behind

Some way to the side

Should one write

Of still finding the sound

Should one write

Or take photographs

This place is nineteen minutes

From my home

As long as I too am prepared

To add to the urban traffic noise

Once again I have lost the tip

Off my favourite pencil

This time though I fear

However lateral my exploration

Or thinking, the top is gone

My peace is shockingly shattered

By a scruffy little dog

The owners words not mine

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Direction Not Yet Decided

One side is at peace

One side is a riot

Straight ahead

Lies the pathway to the sea

Down below is sodden earth

Up above is aircraft sky

Straight ahead

I’ve heard the curlew cry

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I Will Not

I woke, with I will not

On the tip of my tongue

Now all that is required

Are the applications:

I will not give up

I will not go on

I will not be silent

I will not be strong

I will not be tearful

I will not be wise

I will not live in fear

I will not wear disguise

I will not be unhappy

I will not simply go along

I will not be timid

I will not, not belong

I will not take care

I will not share the ride

I will not pay the fare

I will not ask for you at my side

I will not wait for tomorrow

I will not lose today

I will not bathe in sorrow

I will not forget how to play

I will not mistreat the parish

I will not lift up the gun

I will not be way too lavish

I will not set out to run

I will not carve without purpose

I will not waste away the time

I will not profit from the purchase

I will not commit the merest crime

I will not be an agnostic

I will not be an arbiter of faith

I will not doubt my belief system

I will not become as stray, or waif

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