Airborne Consciousness

An urge somehow to contact a part of me, what part I don't truly know, but to contact a part of me with a part of someone other

By contact I mean a closeness, the sort of closeness that the word intertwined leads me towards; minds, bodies, souls, breath, intertwined, in contact, a closeness

Yet in this one room, with it's lustre and patterned wallpaper, how is it possible to transport or transfer anything more than voice or image or words written, how is it possible to soak wilfully into some other body

The key might rest in excitement, I stroke my body, there is an excitement, an energy that I link to another's body, to another's facial expressions. The excitable mind might be the basis of our transmissions

With my eyes closed I can visualise a rose, a deep red rose set against a black and silver mesh and denier backdrop

These connections are of passion, imaginations of Eros delivered through symbolic imagery that lays the forces of sensuality bare with expectation

Are these transmissions received, is anyone, anywhere in receipt of this hyper-power, are these super signals within received from any other transmission than ones own mind, soul, brain, body or ego

What is possible?
I set out to sleep with transference in mind, goodnight

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Dark and White

The word I chose was egress

The word you chose was egret

Both had a part to play in departure

Both played some part in recovery

Fortune favours those who depart

Whether with or without their will

Fortune plays her part

As they sit on the window cill

In search of all but doubt

The word I chose is neat

Petite yet swell

It tells me I've told you

The rest can go to hell

The word you chose

Will be from a wider vocabulary

Likely carry more gravitas

Yet, as this night draws in

I believe that words are our solace

& that this truth goes for the all of us

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Treads

The silence of symbiosis carries me

I float in and out of presence

I lose conscious weight

Through acts of unconscious removal

I take hold of sense

Intense with sensibilities 

The light fades

My warmth wraps me

Good thoughts sprinkle their dust

It is the all of all oneness

The I, that is able to reconnoitre

To have discourse with a wider world

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Call-Out

It is the time to traverse through dusk

Aeroplanes head out east and west

Souls return from northern

& southern pastures

Time for an artisans sojourn

To hear the sheep bah

Bah behind the coo-coo of pigeon

Bah-bah beneath the croak of crow

Bah at the very moment that silence

Engulfed the meadow

Bah, for the endless search of mother

Bah for the nearby fade of light

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Beethoven

The multi-coloured

Rice paper tetrahedrons

Roll throughout my dreams

Their presence brings

A lightness, a gaiety

To familiar tales of lust

And strayed relationships

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Mary (Montbretia)

Beautiful petals

Drawn into focus

Risen out of peat lands

To furnish the lakeside

Hear then her whispers

As she bends against the breeze

Listen to her mellow cries

Untold absence is her disease

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Outlines & Structures

There are many sketches of faces

Layered in vertical and horizontal arrays

On his video the artist talked of movement

His sculptures bring his words to life

The guide says it’s too late to go there today

She says this many times, at many bus-stops

Right now we are outside the Scottish Parliament

We are told it won the Stirling prize for architecture

I myself think it disjointed and emblazoned

With all kinds of frippery, some of which I now

Learn is meant to be representative of open

Government; drawn curtains and the like!

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Before the Riots

There is much to be done

Sufficient work for everyone

But first to rebuild the spirit

Energise; engage with all

Some to work with hedgerows

Some to work with books

Work together in towns and cities

Working alone with claws and hooks

Everyone to find their own self

Yet encompass communal pride

Everyone in congregation

With time for their solitary side

Some to work in organisation

Some to simply do

Good to work becomes the ethic

Also to grow and prosper too

Strive towards the good life

Quality to be indigenously bound

Everywhere then aimed at pleasure

Fresh life for sights and sounds

Some to bring on excellence

Some to support and aid

Work of a thousand varieties

With reward truly and fairly paid

The deluded ramblings of a working class Yorkshireman who believes attention to detail and commitment to aesthetic beauty would solve our countries lot

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I As You

To live the two lives

In the one life

To daydream of that face

While we sojourn in this place

To race no more

The chase left for others

Let the door swing

Follow the older brothers

But roses still grow

& summer brings flowers

The love-wish which we throw

Is so sprinkled with showers

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Hallgarth in August

The lights are out, the power is down, rain beats it's way through the trees. The tittle tattle of a thousand and one creatures is silenced. A perfect time for contemplation, let my meditation CD begin. I’ve listened until my toes tingled, and for sure there were a couple of power naps along the way.

The rain is gone, the traffic returns, the railway too, but not yet any sight, or sound, of the power.

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Seersucker

Soft blue sky

Warm winds breeze

Too enticing to leave

Time to plunge

To swim in Cleethorpes sea

Mother and daughter

Wet and wild and free

Twist their cotton garments

As my mother used to wring

The washing, back in 1963

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Natural Beauty

Immense storms wash out

The heavily thunderous black sky

Preparation for the blue light

The delightful blue sea of morning

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Relinquish

Your hands on the wheels

My eyes slowly closed

Sat by your side

The aroma of warm rapeseed

Hits me in the instant

That we judder to a standstill

How then to let the eyes close again

Unable to trust my own instincts

Unsure of future cloudless skies

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Inevitable Decay

The teenage boys have gone
The girls soon followed on
All that the parents can say
The young fathers are away too

All thats left here, in this place
Are the wasted-today cobwebs
Of King Coal’s once fortune zoo

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Swollen

In that time

To fall for the fallen

Thus stolen our life

Simmered with fear

Fallen for the fallen

All pain forsaken

With the final chance

Unable to reappear

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No Need To Ask

One morning

Any one morning

Even this one

Where the damp air

Does not dampen the spirit

& why should that not be

After a dream of such 

Gentle physical love

Shared without need

Gifts with pleasure given

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The Pen May Relate A Quieter Tale

Of a kind drafted in beach huts

Where a cooler breeze might

Steal the heat of this moment

The heat of this ever so slightly

Overdone mind & body

Standing beside the railway tracks 

As if, now again, back

In that workers boarding house

Deep in the suburbs of Plymouth

Or the B&B up on the Somerset levels

Where, into that faraway place

The roll and rattle faded to nought

Tonight it is as if the twenty-one

Thousand days and nights

Were also as good as gone

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Cusps

In this late time

At the time to welcome night

A universal sense of quiet

A quiet so easily welcomed

Taken at ease

As taken so many times before

A mirrored light reflected

Layers in the quarter bevelled

Ochres, khakis; washed out

Greens and gradients

Washed onto shores

Of pleasant past times

Into unexpected leave

Circled by bays

Perspex, held

To capture hidden

Ultra festive light

A mercurial feel of calm

A calm so simply claimed

Set aside, unbroken

As woken, so often, and no more

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Fabled Unable

The fear, the recognition looming

Is to achieve naught

That is to leave this life without

Having reached out or touched 

Life at the edges

To have read 

The Picture of Dorian Grey

But not to have learnt or understood

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Gel

I scratch the imaginary surface

Of this spherical agglomeration

Of imaginary nothingness

A space, or repository, formed

By no more than a few deft hand-

Turns and rolling wrist gestures

I am reminded of the mathematics

Of non-Euclidean space

And of Jung's collective unconscious

Theorems always showed the miserable

Limits to my intellectual capacity

Here again I am undone

Instead to write of love and loss

Or love and joy, I engulf myself in the

Wobbly blancmange of indecipherable airs

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Wordy Expression

Bus terminals and ticket collections

Endless queues, recurring themes

Always make the same mistake

Again; again without doubt

The red light is aglow

Erogenous

All dreams head

This way it seems

A full-on brown sea

A fuller grey, grey sky

The horizon is lost in mist

Rain beats on the pavement

Today the pier is to be deserted

Crazy golf similarly so abandoned

It is a large room with grand windows

The ingrained tea tray is set with biscuits

I ruminate on the eleven plus examination

It was the high point of my educational life

Thereafter failure on an immense scale

Prior to self excused absconding

On a fairly regular basis

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Half-Way Precise

I meditate

For the one who is

And for the one who is not

I bring a prayer to both

For the one who offers peace

And for the one where lays the ache

In the calm time of rising

I offer to carry their moments

As I imagine a tiller would plant his corn

There on my shoulders

Their vessels are balanced

On the knotted pole that gently rocks

We are together in absence

After many aggregates of time

On journeys now to where quietness sways

I leave this place

This space of the morning

Take my meditation, out into the day

I have hope to dream again

Come the breakthrough of light

Between this day and the day after tomorrow

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Flip-Side

Elegant minimalist words

Clean sans-serif font

Environmentally inspired

Forest management

Slouch

On the chaise-lounge

After a full English

With extra toast

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Roll

By page six

You have used

The d word twice

I notice this

Because I too have the d

Like, like, like

As if

As if you cared

For the surf dude

So slim, so sublime

As he rides, strides

The light fantastic

On the rolling crests 

Yet for the first time 

I understand

The need for

Techniques at play

The twists

The forceful skips

Even the neatness

To step aside

Before our wave is spent

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Fog

The vacuum cleaner masks the raging sea

The days cleaning awakened in earnest

Guests that pour out into the rain

The b&b landladies expectation

To be blown right off the pier

Take pictures for relation

Ships that pull closer

Over and out

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Gentleman

A change in deportment

Ever so slightly withheld 

A feign to the existential

A well-practiced hand gesture

A gentle slow-roll of the wrist

Waves the ladies on through

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Half-Beat

Slow down, almost to a stop

No please, keep walking

Kick the pebble, with nonchalance

From the tar-macadam pavement

Onto the miserable dried-out grass verge

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Duty Free

Polished tiles bounce the silence

Amplify & amplify again

The still sounds of nothing

Except the smile

Of the small boys excitement

As his father

Shows him the big aeroplanes

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Out of Sun

Pebbles picked
Picked & inspected
By the young woman
In azure-blue bikini

Pebbles picked
Picked & inspected
As though all of life itself
Had been washed ashore

Easy to be romantic
Blue sky, gentle waves
Reflected warmth, from
Worn-away sandstone pillars

In the speedboats jet-stream
Hang the plumes of destiny
A race of sorts
From here to there, or thereabouts

One deep and final breath
Beneath the Faberge shade
Negligence would be, would it not
To be unfaithful to beauty & love

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Ocean

As you edge in

You also edge out

Take steady steps

To gather a focus

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Shaded Steps

Many times before & once again
Sky blue, blue white
Deepest blue
An ink line of horizon

Lesser blues, on their way
To the fond greens of the Atlantic Ocean
Past the canary yellow buoys
& the purer whites of the speedboats

Which momentarily create a spray
Whose colour is no more
Than the colour of clear water
Blasted into suspension

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