Locations

You are here

Here in this house

Here, in this room

We sit together

In meditation

Also, in the bedroom

We lay together

To become closer

More-so than in love

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Destinations

Finding my feet

Friday morning’s flight

Giving all

To the new direction

Met at the airport

Taken to the shops

Then onto Mon Plaisir

For a close and warm embrace

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Micro

Our life

A cosmos

On a pinhead

In the Exhibition

Without strife

A fine dust

Particulate

Situation

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Pathways

I have been to many places

Alone and alone

I have studied lots of subjects

By myself and by myself

I have listened to millions of songs

With my own company for accompaniment

I sat on buses, trains and aeroplanes

Taking just the one seat, just the one

I watched football in the park

Not joining in, no not joining in

I self-published my books of poetry

For only me to read, only me to read

Now I am studying psychology and counselling

But I have no clients or patience

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Dress Sense

Is that why

She wore a mini-skirt

Or was it because

She thought

If she looked good

She felt good

And that was

In her mind

Way better

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Craft Gatherings

I stood in the market

On a Scandinavian archipelago

Wondering

If to buy a present

Was the the right thing to do

A good way to protect

And project that moment

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Sixty-Six Thousand Steps

Fade away (almost)

Immersive

In concept

Also in delivery

Persuasive

Close-up

Also far away

Declare this

In sunlight

And beneath the stars

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Shul Times

Change and education

Or education and change

Rushing headlong

Into a future

On tracks or with steps

Entirely shaped by happenstance

Fade away, almost

The words don’t settle

So easily, even

Individual letters

Are difficult

To comprehend

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Cigarette Walk

The line of trees

How might I believe

Beyond the night’s darkness

The pathway through the woods

All uphill until

The bright clearing appears

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Sociology

I do not know of Le Bon or of Hippolyte Taine before him, although I did once stay in the Place de la République

The closest that I get to mob culture is in the football crowd, where I occasionally do move from individual thought

Of course I despise those politicians, especially the conservatives, who chose to name group behaviour as mindless and without reason

Instead, even though my own experience questions it, I prefer to believe that I behave as a thoughtful individual, whether alone or gathered in a crowd

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Scheduling

Ordinary things

Smaller things

A note about the builder

Coming to do repairs

Orgasmic with their climactic noise

Then

When the dry weather arrives

The painter will paint the walls

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Be There

Ash is the hardest tree

And to return the cruellest track

Yet both are in the realm

Of those beautiful days

When the blue skies

And the gentle breeze

Take their turns to play

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Simpler

The questions that I ask

Which no one answers

With a yes or a no

Yet they espouse

The pathway to their house

Or their door

But green is the colour

That I seek

Not stop, nor wait, but go

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Step

I go there

I go there

I end there

I end there with you

I smile

I laugh

Also I cry

I end there with you

I had to be alone

Life was too too intrusive

But I like your picture

I always go there with you

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Bedroom Reflections

A sink

With a mirror

Another mirror

For make up

One wall of wardrobes

One with a full length mirror

A bay window

To one side of the bed

A Mark Rothko print

On the opposite wall

Above the king-size double bed

A row of cupboards

All of this for certainty

Among the uncertainty

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Feeling

Outcast

I have cast myself out

And I am slowly forgetting

How to reopen the door

Bitterness

Helps me to be bitter

Humour

Helps me to smile

Happiness

Follows swiftly

As I sit, secure

In my meditation chair

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