Liaison

I had the idea

Of an entirely secretive relationship

Two people, who each told no one

Except the other

Of their plentiful

Wonderfully ingenious collaborations

Why would I make the call

Is it only to hear her voice

Why tell anyone, it is my choice

Raise you off your feet

Private and secret

Each & every time we meet

Praise of those perfect ways

As in a silent partnership retreat

Spent in the love, of the overtly indiscrete

Tell of the bonds

The absent ties not to cheat

Private and secret, sublime in the beat

Hope of a response

With an agreement to meet, with

All regrets wrapped, in a virgin cotton sheet

Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo

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Mesmerised in Osmosis

Awash in the mesmerisation of osmosis

Hung by the miasma of unspoken words

Bound as by the clouds

That overlap and wrap themselves

Into the doubt that is grey, and white, and silver

And blue, and still heavier grey

Where the rain spills out in gorgeous torrents

Awash over the spirited & crimson horizon

Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo

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Frustrate

Take away steadiness, steadfastness

Amble freely down the random pathways

It won't give you what you want

Although you may feel a little better

Why won't I feel any better

Do you think I need a sense of achievement

Am I born with a drive for purpose

Is that the outcome of transcendental meditation

The frustration and the anger

Is this the nature of organisational structure

Is this the change of times where time itself is lost

They don't say: be more determined, do less, but do it better

Rather they imply: do more, but do it less well, and be less inventive

Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo

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Almost Time

We walked together towards her car
She was attractive, in a precise sort of way
With her young beautiful daughter holding her arm
There was talk of a party

An announcement of a celebratory gathering
At the car she leant in towards me
She kissed my cheek, and my neck
"You will join us, won't you"

I woke with a lightness
Good to feel wanted
If only I had
Had the chance to accept the invitation

Celebrate the times of such beauty
Tie into the good times
The ways of peaceful love
Be thankful of all that your vessel is able to carry

Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo

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Overlay

The latest dream

Tries to write over the earlier dream

I work hard to hold on to both recollections

Now I am walking home in the sunshine

I am beside the campus college library

I can hear Mneme on her mobile phone

Her joyous, infectious voice bubbles over with enthusiasm

Then I hear her say that she has seen me

She tells whoever it was she was talking to that she has to go

In the earlier dream I had been in and part caused a car accident

Involving three drivers

I could not remember my home address or other insurance details

I took the two other drivers back to Mneme's house

I was upstairs

They stood together talking at the bottom of the stairs

In a strong voice I told them not to talk until I was with them 

Mneme gave me her address book

Open at a page where all my details dropped out

My information fell and disappeared

I could not find anything whatsover about me

I began to panic

Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo

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