Stand Back

In too close

Too close to see the distance

Too close to appreciate the longer view

Decades; years and months

That are only captured in the briefest

Of photographic & postcard moments

Places whose constant presence

Occasion only a fleeting glance

Of family, friends and lovers

The seven waves

Wash only once over our shores

As if in a time-lapse periodic table

Thoughts, ideas and dreams

Float without fulfillment

As the stars in tonight’s milky way

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

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Looking Up The Hill

Leafless tree

Sky, grey on burnt red

Friendly, face to face

& cyberspace

Complimentary conversation

As the light surprises

The clouds drift

I gather my warm thoughts

& whisper

An inner word of thanks

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

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Natural Light

At first he thought
It was a fairground attraction
A spectacularly lit, immense big wheel
He was not convinced; could it be a new

Regenerative East Coast sculpture
A beacon across the North sea
Illumination for our European neighbours
He drove on confused, until the penny dropped

It was a slowly rising moon
A vast globe of reds and oranges
A fascinating image that got him rushing
To the nearest vantage point

Yet, just as with that unfulfilling full eclipse of the sun
Witnessed on the Dartmoor outfall rock
A few solitary years ago
Tonight’s transitory light also failed to hold its glow

He was in love back then
He is in love again now
He also cares to believe more of love
Than in the intermittent shadows of sun on moon

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

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Only Moment

A sharp frost

Loves remnants sprinkled

On the trees & the hedgerows

A silver white

Where has love gone

Morning sky

You are in the distance

Over the rooftops

Beyond the gold of daybreak

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

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Crystal

Turn down the night

As cars go racing

Settle to the inner sight

Again to walk the Machair

Trip down the sand dunes

All at one with two once fair

Take a balance to the light

The clock of time is south facing

The fiddler fettles as well he might

Again to drive on, as we dare

Pulled by tractor through golden rills

All at one with two to care

Stroke the glass ball, hear your plight

The mirage of worlds are pacing

Life unfolds the reasons for flight

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

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