Ready Steady Go

Sunlight falls in great abundance on the blossom tree

This is an Easter Sunday unlike any other, ever

Yet this peace, this calm, this beauty

It is the very thing which so so many in the past have prayed for

But now it appears that there is also a growing desire

To return to what we used to think of as ‘normal society’

There seems to be a substantial groundswell of longing

To be able to be in touch, to be able to be close beside one's fellow man

With our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our lovers and our colleagues

We are getting ready, for what will undoubtably be one heck of a party

We will party on the parklands, we will party on the beaches

We will party in the gardens, the streets, and the cities of our great nation

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Place Setting

Sat, at the kitchen table

A breakfast of bacon and eggs

Complimented with HP brown sauce

On the side a plate of sourdough bread

Spread with Irish salted butter

I look out of the French windows

And in that moment I am transported

To our holiday cottage in the Orkneys

Looking out over the well-tended garden

(As covered by Gardening magazine)

Then onto the Bay of Houton

Before peering across Scapa Flow

Where the ferries

Chug from morning till night

On route to and from the oil island of Flotta

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Place Persists

The first donation lands today, a spark of joy

And for everyone, everywhere, the gifts

Which bring connection, purpose, and love

Prospect Cottage is saved, thankfully

We all played a part, including David Hockney

In gifting a memory to the many memories

Once again we will venture to the shingle

Take our little group the length of the country

To share a creative day out

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Place Exists

Without time, to hold you back

Stride out creatively

Among and towards the seasons

Use this place as never before

Walk around the garden

Do some work there, if so you wish

Day by day make a new place

For you are in isolation

And didn’t someone once say

It is for the best

To make the best

Of the best of all possible worlds

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Space Exists

I have a table as big as four tables

I have two velux sunlight roof windows

My stereo plays the iPhone playlist

It is a playroom

Where I don’t play half often enough

Yet I do believe

In this spring and summer

Of Coronavirus Lockdown

It could become my fragrant shelter

Especially if I am able to buy

A few big bunches of lilacs

Or several small vases of freesias

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