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Friday, 1 June 2012

Belief too brief


The Lincoln
By the cathedral
In Lincoln central

The registrar edges
As the concierge
Walks by

Pledges are snapped
With a smile
& a firm handshake

That idea of time
With time in hand
The explanations

Worked through
Thoroughly
Briefs well briefed

A confidence trick
Stick
To the resolution

The institution
Quivers
At recidivists
Procedures




This poem is from the collection East of Lincoln Central available now on kindle - click on the text for details

Purple Sage


Twisted, two obligations
Various considerations listed
Insistent, feel the lost thoughts lost again
Abstain, you are tied to, lie as to self the same
Upside, downside, cushioned comfort field or frame
Lain with those extrapolated and pilloried stains
Regain a mind at once so clear, free of fear
No more of Baudelaire or Stenigot, not now
Not then, no paradise of shock, no lock of hair
As silk slipped frost, all cost subscribed fulfilled
Drilled into safe emotive cells, wellbeing that dwells
On the printed page, that tells of itself’s own story
Through the spoken word; so absurd; no
Reader, no listener, no viewer, no friend, no word
From the past or from the future; only the untold echoes
Reverberations that you heard but could not put
To a time or place, as if the race and the line, the
Call of mine, mine, mine; sublime in it's truth
Dutiful youth to wayward...
Struth how might you hold on to this
Old stories been and gone, levitations and escapologists
On the silver screen, what do we mean
What do we mean, what do we mean
It seemed straightforwards, to tell of hurt
In that the void of breath or blood should
Be so impossible to state, unable to relate
As flowers wilt and waters dry, as passions rise
Their chosen time closed to cry: "try, try, try"
Let her go, let it die, say no more, be so fly
As to tell it never mattered, may you scatter
Letters, sounds, utterances, the found remnants
Of lust and love, to be trusted by lost accounts
Recompense to follow old and trusted paths
Last laugh and all that crap, you never said
Dead until death us do part, let's start again
The day of it
The all but forgotten Zane Grey of it
The absolute pure flight and foreplay of it




a poem from In & Out of Dream Space
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Thursday, 31 May 2012

Boxed Out


Sailing on the seven seas
All in smile with sails to breeze
Happiness this heart to seize
Lay me down by swayed palm trees
Loison’s Pandora takes her leave
Time to dance, time indeed
Raise the flags and plant the seeds
Skies of blue no cloud or creed
We have the willow
We have the reed
Tales unfold our stories weave
Love my love to fair receive
Sun and shores I do believe
A fine fair way to end the grief
Closure now for souls own thief
Space to play in sound relief
Say goodbye, my liege, my lief





a poem from In & Out of Dream Space
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Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Listening to Michelangelo


Into the wind
On sand, beside water
Sunrise, sunset
Always the north star
Bereft of ties
Minds work intent to keep me
As if to walk into the desert
To plant the cactus
Lines drawn, portraits painted
Carvings made in lime and oak
Preserve the distance
Insulate from the pull of skin
Rhythms, vibrations, visitations
Drumbeats of the forest
Evolve to a slower pace
Care to jot down the ice effects
Let the love that entered
Find clear space for re-entry
Warm thoughts fully felt
Smelted by the sun up sun
Out of the wind
Away from dereliction
Ache for the escape you ache from
Escape from the ache you escape for

Talk of sweet dreams
Send your love and kisses
Tell soft stories
Ease out the easy words
Mountain streams and wishing wells
Rainstorms and taxi cabs
Intoxications, fascinations & visitations
Down the telegraph wires of immense truth
Touch it once, taste it once
Care not for incommunicado
Cavort as only imaginary friends may cavort
Become the goddess and the giant
Be drawn along the star-line and the causeway
Ache for the love that loves to ache
Ache with the love that aches to love

She walks in, he watches
How to say hello
Fired with lust - Lord let it be love
Stay calm, appear neat and cool
Boy I could be there
Throwaway words thrown away
Ghastly gestures gestured
Fool, fool, fool
Find yourself, be yourself
Open your defences, become vulnerable
Love is what love is
Care for her care
Thank heaven for words and voice
Place your arm on her shoulder
Lend her your leather coat
Be fascinated by her fascination
Be intoxicated by her intoxications
Be visited by her visitations
Dance as you ached to dance
Ache as you dance the dance that aches





a poem from In & Out of Dream Space
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Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Elbowed Out


Find me in a faithless light
Of the past and of the night
Singing songs and losing sight
Find me in a faithless light

Find me on a timeless flight
Of a mind with viscous plight
Taking risks and getting tight
Find me on a timeless flight

Find me with the blameless right
Of a future felt and trite
Saying yes or maybe might
Find me with the blameless right




a poem from In & Out of Dream Space
Love Embellished by Visitations click anywhere on
the text for details