Vacation’s Begin

Talk is of snowboards

Skateboards without wheels, offers

The grey haired older man

Father

Of the middle aged son

Who is doing most of the talking

Utah we hear is a good place

I therefore presume that these folks

Are related to the founding fathers

Descendants

Of those earlier Boston pilgrims

Otherwise why be in Humberside Airport

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Looking Up The Hill :: Love To Make You Stand Back

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Before love heads homeward

The silence of symbiosis carries me

I float in and out of presence

I lose conscious weight

Through acts of unconscious removal

I take hold of sense

Intense with sensibilities 

The light fades

My warmth wraps me

Good thoughts sprinkle their dust

It is the all of all oneness

The I that is able to reconnoitre

To have discourse with the wider world

The word I chose was egress

The word you chose was egret

Both had a part to play in departure

Both played some part in recovery

Fortune favours those who depart

Whether with will or without

Fortune plays her part

As they sit on the cill

In search of all but what love doubts

from The Hebrides - Water and Stone
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Shades

The words they choose

May be from a wider vocabulary

Possibly carry more gravitas

Yet as this day draws on

I believe that my words

Are for our solace (yours and mine)

& that this truth

Goes for the both of us

from The Hebrides - Water and Stone
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Solitude No More

You think I want to be here alone

I want to say that isn't true

The reason that I'm here at all

Is because I want to be here

Today, with you

from The Hebrides - Water and Stone
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Love’s silence out across the sound

Past Benbecula airstrip

My mind trips into the past

Your lasting impressions

Stress the importance

Concordance of memory

Island waters: seas, lochs, streams, waterfalls

The poet’s father’s daughter plays the pipes and all

All to have a calling, from the birth date to the wake

Words that stall, fall short of deep within

Rhythms of the oceans & of the seven deadly sins

Sunlight on the ferry

As for the boys in France

Back to making merry

Lead the nearly men a nearby dance

Tall ships and seaborne warriors

Divers for the crab and clam

Hear the anthems of the Highlands

Fire the fear and then be damned

Dream of wide open moorland

Sleep on thoughts of mountain tan

Lay down old preoccupations

As you would in far away Japan

 Don’t be the author with his hari-kari

Turn the pages, become the love that can

from The Hebrides - Water and Stone
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