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Sunday, 10 November 2013

Winter & Summer

Sun streams on the yellow wheelbarrow
Onto the garden of fallen snow

Between the sorrow and the sadness
Lies the joy of light and dark
Lies the thoughts
Of that day in the park

Already unable to settle
So feared of the next moments
That that moment passed
In abstensis

Ring of air
Afloat on the surface
He went on to dare
You were caught by her

Imperious gestures
To suggest
That anything was possible
If only our time would last

Wind rattles through the beeches
We travelled, as with the spark


Cut It - Love of Perfumed Grains of Dust
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Saturday, 9 November 2013

Summer & Winter

Snow flurries
Give the time
To search out retreats
Pick a collection of poems
Written in the summer
Beside a Cornish sea

To have found such time
Although you are away
You have given this space
The hope of contemplation
A garden and a window
Warm fire for the winter

Closer to a life
That bathes in Brahms’ music
A life that took us to the water
To nights spent in lively bars
Where we drank deeply, and
Engaged in rapturous conversation

Love then
Is this continuum
From a silence to a cacophony
Sweet whispers to glorious yells
All as all, always and alone, and
Both part of the congregation


Cut It - Love of Perfumed Grains of Dust
Christopher's Poetry collections can be found on iTunes and on Kindle by clicking the highlighted links

Friday, 8 November 2013

Yesterday’s Hug

All to gather in
Hold back the tears
Be steady

Only at the edges
Of the extreme moments
Are we touched
By our instinctive resources

Just as
The oarsman
Balances on his boat
Which carries only flowers

Sat alone
I listen to the Lovely Thunder
Thinking
How cold today’s leather settee


Cut It - Love of Perfumed Grains of Dust
Christopher's Poetry collections can be found on iTunes and on Kindle by clicking the highlighted links

Thursday, 7 November 2013

Support

I sense your fear
Your fear of my giving up work
Your fear of taking on yet another dependent

The fear becomes a silence between us
Unable to elucidate our thoughts
How much easier, or not

If I was of independent means
The fear turns into action
As you check off my letter of application

For a job that I do not want
A job that is possibly beyond me
A job whose only attraction is its local vicinity

I wonder if the fear is your fear
Is it that you are afraid for me
Feared that I will do naught

Yet if we talk, although
We don’t often talk on this matter
We end up talking about the money

Not that I want to be an ascetic
Nor give up our worldly possessions
Neither be unable to go away on vacations

It is that I am beginning
To put a very high value on my time
On my time with freedom to do with as we wish

I want, I want, I want
As much as any spoilt child wanted
I want time back, time for me, time for me & you

Time for me, for you, and for our love
Love of a life more gentle
Even love that’s a little bit sentimental

Somehow it is easier to put it on the page


Cut It - Love of Perfumed Grains of Dust
Christopher's Poetry collections can be found on iTunes and on Kindle by clicking the highlighted links

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Skin Tight & Passionate

He might name this
A cotton wool sky
Except that it is, as if
 
Her saturns rings of fire
Were not already burning
Burning down his present horizons

She might sing along
To those Little fluffy clouds
Except that it is, as if

His knives had not already
Sliced through her canvas
Cut right in, to her sodden thoughts


Cut It - Love of Perfumed Grains of Dust
Christopher's Poetry collections can be found on iTunes and on Kindle by clicking the highlighted links