Pre Prenuptial

I tried to believe I could let go
That was even before we started
I wanted to show, define
That my love was so strong &
However long we were together
The treasure would have been mine

I would be sure & secure enough
To wish you much future happiness 
On the day that we would surely part
Yet set apart by your refinement
I inclined to play the game too well
I lost & in pain I rearranged my settlement


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One person missing

I was buying cut flowers
All I cherished were bright loud colours
Emotionally strong fragrances

Next I was sat on the steps of a greenhouse
At a big house with front and back gardens
A girl shouted from inside the house
There was someone at the door

Wanting a home tutor for their daughter
Could the protege please come quickly
We could hear her explaining & negotiating
She sounded very professional

An agreement was reached
She came into the back garden
To recount her happy tale
You walked from the middle of the garden

Where you had been playing with the boy
I held out my hand and asked you to sit with me
Your finger brushed my hand but
You walked by without pause


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Mon Plaisir

I cannot drill down any deeper
Alone I am unable to magnify
The view; I do remember a window

The lane a little steeper, there
Was a garden & a small kitchen
With two colourful cockatoo

There were fields for potatoes
Before the long curved beaches
Yet out beyond the reaches

I was so often absent
Just as the image shows
I stayed out of focus

There were pedestrians
On the promenade, they
Sojourned towards the town

Did you wonder that I
Wondered on the hope of you
Always to know that my love

Would tie you, no, worse
Much worse by far
My love would let you down

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Aznavour

She, woman of man's life
Where would he be without
More skewed attractions

He, man of woman's life
Where would she be without
Less undue distractions


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Absence of Free Will

It is not that I am torn
It is more that my mind
Seems to go just wherever it damned well chooses

I have been in love before
I am in love again, now
Images & memories, that my mind frequently uses

If on occasions forlorn
If caught on barbs that bind
I am resigned to follow her wherever she pleases

If to think of the spotlit dance floor
To shuffle so lightly how
With footsteps and body sways; she poses, she teases


A Poem from Outline Sketches and Vague Reasoning - Love Within a Drifting Mind available from Booktango by cliking anywhere on this text