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Saturday 16 July 2022

Alms

In need of suspension

To feel for disbelief

Parting from dissension

As the cure to find relief


Lift the lid off this attention

Learn to search upon your knees

Gift the gifts of freed ascension

Learn to sail upon the seven seas


In the midst of the passing

Called up by images and dreams

There to find by the final lashings

Nowhere is ever what it seems


In the need of right direction

To feel alive for all he pleads

Apart though from exemption

The cure is in the founding deeds


Lift the lid off this confession

Learn to fall beside the reeds

Gift the gifts of clear impression

Learn to rally by counting trees


In the midst of those harassing

Carried on by the poet’s screams

There alone in the final romancing

Nowhere is not at all what it seems