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Wednesday, 18 December 2013

First Cigarette

It is that morning
One photograph
Makes me say
It’s Saturday
Time to start writing

To pour out the thoughts
Such as, with all the positive spin
You still find inherent negativity
If someone says: “you can be better”
Does it mean you aren’t already

I thought of how my friend
Spoke of his euphoric vacation
With his family from the past
I could use it, in such a story of the idyll
A spot to aim for if you are feeling down

Yet it is lost; it is gone, left purely as nostalgia
Though even to think of that nothingness
Knowing you never quite reached there
As you take a cup of tea to the bedroom
An offering, that might also disturb her


Cut It - Love of Perfumed Grains of Dust
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Tuesday, 17 December 2013

Aloft

Light of lava lamp
Plucked strings of romantic lute
Know that sleep is some time away

Hold the sense of tranquility
Reach out to pasts and futures
Calm rivers to moonlit skies

Find that niche life of stabilisation
Offered with confidence to others
Cathartically through zillions of words

Take a mindful reconciliation
Bedevelled by that dash of colour
A reflection, of her once inferred beauty


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

Monday, 16 December 2013

All Sorts Besides Money

She has no need of work
No desire to earn or chase a score
She lives on Day-Glo placebo’s
& uptown chunky bores

She drinks the most expensive vino
& smokes silky, filter tip cigarettes
It’s not that she’s not with us
Rather that she’s loosened off her debts

She’s off to the Dominican republic
With her favourite of the season, he’s
Charted a yacht, setting sail at midnight
She, he says, is the only reason

She says that she will miss you
He says he will miss you too
She waves her swish goodbyes
He turns away, as her lovers often do


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

Sunday, 15 December 2013

Founded

Sure white
Poplin cotton shirt
Purposefully faded
Light blue denim jeans

Saturday morning
Strolling to the library
& looking back;
There was a certainty

How good it all felt
How right it all was


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

Saturday, 14 December 2013

Thurlestone Beach

For a moment I was on the seas edge
With no regrets on not venturing out
For with that brief image you carried me

I was taken, in sunshine and darkness
Besides calm waters, and wild oceans
With friends & family & lovers & children

I could tell you of one particular evening
Late at night, with my not yet teenage son
Throwing pebbles absently to a winters surf

That you might detect a sadness
Is neither fortunate nor unfortunate
Truth is what happens; that time happened

Now it is in two peoples
Direct memories
No more to it than that

That it can make those two people cry
Twenty-five years later
That is the thing of love


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