Boxed Out

Sailing on the seven seas

All in smile with sails to breeze

Happiness my heart to seize

Lay me down by swayed palm trees

Loison’s Pandora takes her leave

Time to dance, time indeed

Raise the flags and plant the seeds

Skies of blue no cloud or creed

We have the willow, we have the reed

Tales unfold our stories weave

Love my love to fair receive

Sun and shores I do believe

A fine fair way to end the grief

Closure now for souls own thief

Space to play in sound relief

Say goodbye, our time so brief

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Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo

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Listening to Michelangelo

Into the wind

On sand, beside water

Sunrise, sunset, northern star

Bereft of ties

Minds work all to keep me

As if to walk into the desert

To plant the cactus

Lines drawn, portraits painted

Carvings made in lime and oak

Preserve the distance

Insulate from the pull of skin

Rhythms, vibrations

Drumbeats of the forest

Evolve to a slower pace

Care to jot down the ice effects

Let the love that entered re-enter

Warm thoughts fully felt

Smelted by the sun up sun

Out of the wind

Away from dereliction

Ache for the escape you ache from

Escape from the ache you escape for

Talk of sweet dreams

Send your love and kisses

Tell soft stories

Ease out the easy words

Mountain streams

And wishing wells

Rainstorms and taxi cabs

Intoxications & fascinations

Down the telegraph wires

Of immense immutable truth

Touch it once, taste it once

Care not for incommunicado

Cavort as only

Imaginary friends may cavort

Become the goddess and the giant

Be drawn along the star-line

And the devil’s causeway

Ache for the love that loves to ache

Ache with the love that aches to love

She walks in, he watches

How to say hello

Fired with lust

Lord let it be love

Stay calm, appear neat and cool

Boy I could be there

Throwaway words thrown away

Ghastly gestures gestured

Fool, fool, fool

Find yourself, be yourself

Open your defences, become vulnerable

Love is what love is

Care for her care

Thank heaven for words and voice

Place your arm on her shoulder

Lend her your leather coat

Be fascinated by her fascination

Be intoxicated by her intoxications

Dance as you ached to dance

Ache as you dance the dance that aches

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Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo

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Elbowed Out

Find me in a faithless light 

Of the past and of the night

Singing songs and losing sight

Find me in a faithless light

Find me on a timeless flight

Of a mind with viscous plight

Taking risks and getting tight

Find me on a timeless flight

Find me with the blameless right

Of a future spelt and trite

Saying yes or maybe might

Find me with the blameless right

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Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo

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Trepidation

Luxuriate in that fearless time of youth before you ever witnessed the exploits of the Mafioso

Wander if you will, in that skeletal forest, reminiscent of Nash’s burnt, scarred and devoured environment

Do you need to know any of that backstory to see that this is the face of a scared and frightened man

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Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo

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Splashed water

I did not, would not, could not say no

Therein lies the impossible power of attachment

I pulled you close

Looked into your eyes

You laughed, yet you were quite unable

To look back into mine

I sat naked

As we dined

On the waterside terrace

Of my ex-wife’s sprawling cottage

You told of vacations

I began to understand

You ate easily of the anchovies

I struggled to find more abundant supplies

It was indeed unexpected for a neighbour to intrude

With pointless talk, endless conversation

Of troubles found

Here, at home & also beyond the Horn of Africa

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Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo

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