Glow If You Dare

Flames are lowered

Curves of decay amongst the embers

Turned pages of picture books

Remember those past Decembers

Lend her the lyric hooks

Sing songs of joy and tenderness

Suppress at once the sideways looks

That is not the way to send her

Fend off your depression

Close up the downbeat crooks

With the light of her impression

Share those romantic nooks & crannies

Play her Danny and the Champions of the World

Swirl her on to the dance floor

More you shout, folklore edicts the damsel fair

Rare as the sacred whirled through wilder air

Care of the curved decay

Whose lowered tones blend with her wishes

Superstitious as she has become

Run now, run your words down to the floor

The core is gone

The story slowly flickered, lest it shone

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

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Egg Light

The daydreams were pink eggshells

The night dreams were duck egg blue

Love dreams were of pure white you

The farms morning sun shone bright

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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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