Devil of Disruption

I walk the streets, head down
Let me wallow
God let me feel sorry for myself
Before I read of the indisputable truth
Before I learn any more of the irredeemable I

These are not my walls, this is not my house
I am a guest
A veritable journeyman
The current luminaire, simply passing through
I will just be, I will move on, be one before the other





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It is just an idea

Inside
The stone
No way to know

Of haystacks
Engulfed
In spontaneous combustion

There
Though the rain
Bounces off the flat flags

And the aircraft
Outside
Of the dust filled hangar

Where the late sun
Casts
Its long and lonely shadows





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Patients

It was a kissing night

Kissing, kissing, kissing

Several days of kisses

Then a final kiss

Pressed against the ancient tree

You with that broken look in your eyes

A sorrowful damaged look

Though a look which finally said

Yes, now, eventually

I do so want to kiss you

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Folded Cold

Why write the poetry
Why
Read at all of doubt
Small wonder you wonder

To unlock
Past perhaps possessions
To confess
Per chance regress

Redress
The undressed balance
…Could it be
A list

A letter
Or aide memoir
A memo
Even better

Cold
Unfolded
Bold as
Tabloid stationary





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Suitcase

Lindens in that place above, below
Shared by earth and sky
Sapling by sapling with the Rowans
Set back, set forth of the Weeping Willow
Born of timeless barks shadows on the Silver Birch

Would that these definitive species
Say something equal of me
As with your butterfly
That entered on the waft
Of summers midday breeze

Tea served on a companions tray
New friendship, hostess and traveller
An overnight guest; we walk a parkland walk
Soft talk, dreams blended with meditations

Back at the piano, Satie's Gymnopedie
Pages turn on the symmetrical score
Gardens with lilacs, roses in bloom
Iced Martini, lemonade too, brimming over
Conversation; preparation for the after dark

A meal of suggestive spices, delicately laced
At table, wine with impeccable taste
The best of clothes, perfume chosen
More than to say hello, before candlelight casts
Shadows where only our shadows are allowed to go




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