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Wednesday, 13 June 2012

Simple complications


Don't want expensive presents
Would rather share
What it is already bared

Walk by both the faces
Still and turbulent races
Thoughts more clear

A path to steer
Day by day
Hopes with care to stay

Talk of misdemeanours
Or exclusions - faraway
Long lost conversations say

Or better wow; find words of now
More worthwhile
You and I to softly smile

Simple complications
Debates of long passed stations
Hang on for a while

Wait just a moment won't you
Debates they care, don't they
Care for a victor either way

Why then (sic)
Is it in any way nostalgic
To wear a stripy scarf

Or a bead on a wrinkled wrist
To choose again for time
To be of value; time

The essence of being
The chance to gather
Disparate thoughts


Placed above the sterling
Time; way above the sterling
Way above the tarnished garnered coin

Don’t want expensive presents
If in any way that brings resentment
Of what is already spent

Talk from far off places
Stairways & pretty faces
Climb to these elevated floors

With one door
And one window stay
Elopers with a care to play






This poem is from the collection East of Lincoln Central available now on kindle - click on the text for details