Silver

Inevitable, is it
That your name should be on my lips
As, with my breath
I blow the mist away
From the mirror of this Monday morning

The Supernaturals
Sing to me to smile
& smile with amusement I do
As if my immaturity
Thank God could never leave me

This silver birch is related
However distant
To the one we clasped, so fleetingly
In the virgin snow
At the edge of the Russian forest

Those trees are of the same strain
As the ones our one son
Photographed on the plaza
At the entrance to the art gallery
In England's burgeoning principality

Trees and mirrors and virgin snow
That I should think of you now
In front of the misty mirror
On an ordinary otherwise Monday morning


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Safe Distance (Words from a Jacuzzi)

It couldn't happen

We wouldn't meet by chance

We've long since waved happenstance away

I went to France

You learnt to dance

The lock-gates counterbalanced as we swayed

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Light Moves

One stroke of colour

& the race to emotional overload begins

As if only one woman ever wore blue

At least that blue of extremism in contemplation

Smiles offered

Would you expect still to wait

As if the time wasted was all that remained

Of that fabric of life we once shared together

The mock chandelier is fitted

To the new house entrance ceiling

As if otherwise all else would be the emptiness

Of a place we had once dreamed of

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See it, Feel it

Cold white light, silhouettes

The relics of religion

Warm sun

Melts the valley floor's

Frosted grasses

As if somehow

You know the ways of love

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Shades of Being

Two orange-red shadows

Light the wall opposite my bed

Happy to watch their slow movement

I feel warm under the covers

To keep this peace a little longer

I press the alarm to snooze

All over the country

All over the world

Thousands and millions of you

Will copy me

You too may be among the lucky ones

Those whose sleep was sufficient

To allow you to turn to snooze

Later, after a revitalising shower

I read a few pages of Pessoa

His Book of Disquiet

More positive than yesterday

He talks of the sunlight in his life also

That recently I was loved, and praised

Is worthy of mention

After those sad days

When I lived on bread alone

It shows to me the immense power

Of the indecipherable

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