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Sunday, 14 July 2013

Day & Light

The forecasted storms did not materialise
Instead a morning of wild & phenomenal skies 
Turner himself could not have painted such colours
Diaghilev himself could not have elucidated such movements
Reds as true as the blood drawn by Spanish bullfighters
Blues as sure as Yves Klein himself would have ground
Silvers and whites as clear and bright as the most majestic of imagined miraculous visitations
Pinks and greys both flamboyant and calm; an immense sense of tranquility, stillness amongst the highest of transformative energies
A sky formed from infinite layers, as if a thousand deep stage curtains, each one rolled slightly back to bring the one in front into view, then repeated ad infinitum until there, at the point of disappearance, is a light, a light with all the joys of life in its luminosity, a weightless shining, an emissive source of brilliance, at the very source of brilliance
In the afternoon, on the journey home, heading south east, looking due west: a length of cloud beyond the grasp of straight on vision, as if a carpet of crumpled white felt was hanging from the stars, an impression of damp felt, with a shower of iridescent droplets falling towards the mist covered ground
For those on the terra-firma, immediately beneath these shimmer fine lines of water, they may say it is no more than a shower; but to me, these few miles away, it is as it was the beginning of a spectacular stage show, perhaps a curtain raiser to Jean Michel Jarre, with all his wondrous visual projections


from 
Parting Shots - Love Of The Status Quo

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Saturday, 13 July 2013

Albion Reunion

All those perambulations
Dark nights caught up
In your fraught solitudes of time

Sparkling shoes that you wear
Full gloss to fall under spotlights
An unlaced attempt at forgiveness

Afterwards to go a wander
Full of deep lust and longing
Across your fields of mauve

One more hug of the shoulder
A snatched kiss of your lips, then
Pushed away, pushed towards oblivion


from 
Parting Shots - Love Of The Status Quo

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Friday, 12 July 2013

Response to A

No fear
Close in on ecstasy
Her life imagined
Lived out
Entirely in the abstract

Yet unable
To be completed
Within the amicable society
Of her intricate 
Indiscrete relationships


from 
Parting Shots - Love Of The Status Quo

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Thursday, 11 July 2013

Parting Shots

No complaints, with the sex, she said
She didn’t say fantastic, but
No complaints
That’s better than okay, isn’t it?

No longer want to be a couple, she said
We can still be friends, but
Being friends
Thats tougher than being together, isn’t it?


from 
Parting Shots - Love Of The Status Quo

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Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Base

Scent
The one last probable imponderability
That brings loved ones into my life
Scent
That I can pick off the pages, or infuse
From another young woman’s photograph

Years have passed
Way beyond absolution
Arches of roses collapsed
Bicycles of joyful fusion

Certain as the stones
Laid by the constitution
We, as all others, gasped
Recycled by the resolution

Scent
Homogeneous in a few lines of text
That neither you nor I wrote, to refuse
Scent
Worthy of being named the great imponderable 
That brings loved ones back into my life


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

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