Atlantic

She had a delicacy of touch

Retained in her cerebral cortex

So grounded it resounded as love

She showed me grains of sand

Beside wind-blown sail’s shadows

So deep as to impound my lust

Under a dangerous clear blue sky

Waves lapped their own response

So close to ease her conscience

There are, for some, a few moments

Peak experiences as she emerged from

Precocious, in this time of faith

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Parting Shots - Love Of The Status Quo

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Mon Plaisir

I cannot drill down any deeper

I am unable to magnify the view

Yet I do remember a window

The lane I thought a little steeper

Wasn't there a garden & a small kitchen

With two colourful cockatoo

& to each side, fields of potatoes

Before the long curved beaches

Although, out beyond the reaches 

I was, as now, so often absent

Just as the image shows

I regularly strayed out of focus

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Parting Shots - Love Of The Status Quo

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Looking Up The Hill

As if the leafless tree

Whose sky is grey

Burnt on red

Whose manner is friendly

Full of face to face 

& cyberspace

Opportunities

For caring

Considerate conversations

As if the tree

When the light rises

Begs the clouds to drift apart

That we may gather our thoughts

& together

In the hedgerows silence

We should slowly 

& steadily

Whisper our words of love

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Parting Shots - Love Of The Status Quo

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Meta

If, as her dream suggests

She managed to travel at speeds

Way faster than her living life

If, in her final explanation

It is only that what is witnessed

That cannot be imagined

If, as she is speeded up, slowed down

Through her cinematic experience

Of wilful conflicts & constructions

If she should live more than once

Gather all of her lifes sensual richness

Then purposefully: reload, rewind

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Parting Shots - Love Of The Status Quo

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Antique Centre

Things aren't what they used to be

The depth of life's decay is clear to see

Among the veterans uniforms

& the signs to beware of fake CD's

Two couples fill the room with laughter

Reminiscing of their lives as kids

Before the photographs on mobile phones

Before the autograph, in bed with Sharon Stone

The music begins C'mon Everybody

The awnings flap in the winter wind

The CD changes: There ain't no cure

For the summertime blues

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Parting Shots - Love Of The Status Quo

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