Life’s uncertainties magnified on the cusp of daybreak

Distantly, without support of rope or capstan, I write to you

I write to feel; yet what I feel

I still feel seems to be at an unsafe distance

I miss you, you and your timeless telephone conversations

Bright blue sky brings with it the morning

Warmth strokes in, along with the waking

I miss you, echoed the words from your letter

In that instant, I looked through the skeletal trees

How do we get here; where is it that we are we going

However did I find you, why ever did you choose to love me

It is the right time I feel to retreat and cry

For to cry I am told is a sure sign of acceptance

With the tears would I then have accepted:

However close or distant our love, it is never beyond me

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Duel

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

In ones one room

Limited by vista

Negligence rises

To do nought 

Becomes routine

Cold or warm

That doubt waits

In single shadows

Is weight enough

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Streetlight

Light of selective blue
Give on
Up Electric Avenue

Give on, clear line to sky
Give on, my we were happy

Light of illusive hue
Give on
Up the road to you

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Interlaced

Will it always be thus

You in your turquoise top

Every time I browse a map

Just off the aeroplane

Memories are to rush in

In the deserted rowing boat

Reasons to avoid a return

On the starlit country estate

However innocent the motive

Into the taxi, out of the rain

That a part of me needs to exclude

Against the British Museum radiator

Refuses to deal with the truth

Take our birthday seats in the theatre 

Prefers the delusions of youth

Drive all night, move closer together

Evades that time before this time

Dine in the restaurant by the quay

Those other times with other stories

Spread out on the sands and dunes

If I returned alone I could wallow

Walk barefoot at the waters edge

Write down a set of words

Watch Shakespeare at midnight

Of personal indefatigable thoughts

Ice cream at the sunset beach cafe

Gifts of guilt and exuberance

Open walks to Dartmoor's Tors

On the shifts of unsettled sands

Hand-held total eclipse of the sun

If I returned, with you or another

To the late night Battle of Flowers

I would have to steal away, as for

Nude bathing in Fuerteventura

Sneak out to let in the experiences

Trains through the Somerset Levels

Sneak in to let out the experiences

Of the past regurgitate, boil away

Stood outside Cornwall's Tate gallery

Inside my intrepid deceitful head, taking

Off from all those Jersey bound airports

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A to B

Place names 

Shine out

As if called

By times longest lived emotion

Human games

Find doubt

Dice rolled

With signs of highest devotion

Shame faced

Dull shout

Smile stalled

Lost rhymes of quiet commotion

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