Trap

The walls have been painted, although the mirror remains
You have re-arranged the furniture, built a cupboard
Surrounded yourself with sound, light, & a flat screen twenty seven inch television

Only to discover that materialism reaches its limits; you spread out from those four walls
Venture onto the trackers trail, fill your rucksack with layby’s fruits of love
Eat into your vast reserves; re-join living society & take a walk, take a long endless walk









a poem from the collection Some Trickier Poems - Love with Conflicts - available as a kindle download or library item by clicking here

Clinch

We didn’t wait to meet
That careless time
undone before the darkness

With words so far out of reach,
neither were easily held, or spoken

What memories could we keep
That careless caress
full sung before the lamplight

With time always on the creep,
neither were unsteadily felt, or broken

We didn’t
but then it did not matter
Our turn had been and gone


a poem from the collection Some Trickier Poems - Love with Conflicts - available as a kindle download or library item by clicking here

Parlour Games

The pail swirls,
warm milk in circulation
Honey drips on the fireside toast
the clothes rack hangs above, slowly
steaming; and why should we have a care

That the computer game
shoots out of the car windows, that
the music talks of drugs and tarts
and fook knows what else

With nostalgia we hold back all these days
nostalgia that spreads itself
thinner than the split gossamer:
whose foreclosure on protection
scorched our clumsy love


a poem from the collection Some Trickier Poems - Love with Conflicts - available as a kindle download or library item by clicking here

Visit

It is a card
that says it was good to see you
good to share your view of the world
good to see you smile
and play that goddam awful music

Maybe next time,
when it is less cold
we can spend more time on photography
until then I will airbrush the portraits
and return them as a gift









a poem from the collection Some Trickier Poems - Love with Conflicts - available as a kindle download or library item by clicking here

December

These are the long roads
The long roads
on the dirty days of winter
These are the slipways closed
on the dark and dirty days of winter

These are the silver skies
The silver skies
a soliloquy for the solstice
These are the winter cries
of the deeper sighs of the solstice

Down the long, long road
to where two rivers meet
Down through the day
to the blackest of nights

Over the hill
at the end of the world
These are the minute lies
that unpick our way home







a poem from the collection Some Trickier Poems - Love with Conflicts - available as a kindle download or library item by clicking here