Dorchester

Between the airport

& the bachelor flat

“Would you care to call here

It's a while before we will be back”

Overjoyed at how you liked the space

& how this band of Old England 

So well & truly suited you

We could have stayed longer

We could have stayed over

Except that your excitement

To be at my place, lustful

Your desire grew and grew

Between the blue door and the bedsit

It wouldn't have worked if I'd stayed

“Should you care ever to call here

It'd bring a smile on, she said, looking back”

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Haze

Sunlight lightens the mood

Empowers the spirit

To reach into the positive arena

Of the reflective self

To why we are here

Where we are going

The warm sun cares not a jot

Without the cache of despair

The ball of endless fire is able

To enliven us as any goddess

That the summer will bring blossom

To the Laburnum is without doubt

Yet the tree knows nought of this

So we sentients choose to believe

Whether our own minuscule plans

Our intricate preparations take affect

Do we have the need to care

Instead let us be, as the sunlight

Free off our traps; flare

Walk tall in our uncertainty

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Side by Side

To sit beside you

With sunlight, or rain

At the window

Not to be

On nights away

Summer or winter

That peace waits

For loves return

Is ever welcome

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Droplets of Joy

Thin subliminal

Sounds of the ocean

Wave by cascading wave

Trickling harp by trickling hearts

Darkness by the absence

Of artificial light

Darkness by the closure

Of the certain parts

Super longevity

In this small four walled room

Super sized brevity

Of past times stolen darts

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Jealous Inferno (Cuckold)

One

I am encouraged to try to recollect her misdemeanours 

Though for what purpose; we were after all but too quite separate people

In my search I am also encouraged by various suggestive reconciliations

Though for what purpose; we were after all but two distinctly separate people, in spite of our apparent need of each other 

Two

We had only just met when she had to get off to the City of London, her regret on return was well set, yet what she had done was culpable. I had a leather jacket, I placed it around her shoulders, I walked her to her quarters; it was a few days before we had danced. There were letters to the Welshman, though I don't know that they met, I forget his name and number but I had him checked out all the same. When we first made love she took the condom from the drawer, I was oblivious of her preparation then, but now it's significance is all the more. She did have a regular caller, he came by bike and car, he was a hung up and lonesome subject, caught in the brightness of her star. It was my new friends wedding, he came on strong to her, right there and then, was it more than just coincidence that she had smiled and talked of the absence of Zen. The landlord of the local took a shine to her, she met him in the daylight daytime while I worked away, to pay for the space where they reclined. She went off for a study week, my ex boss drove her, he was full of style and charm, she was surprised by his half indecent proposal, as he asked her for her arm. Caught up in the theatre crowd she loved the play and chase, I faded into the corner, I lacked the womanisers fancy style or pace. Far worst of all; the son in law, the reason for the break, he swore and cursed in front of her; she offered such a response, it was more than I could take. These are the ones I know of, there may have been others too, she says we are both hard to live with and that surely we are through. No wonder that I am wary, although there is no doubt, I was once stone cold sober strong in love with, the dreamiest girl in blue.

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