Countryside Café

All those times I drove along this road

Times when you were not open for business

Or times when I did not have the time to care

Today I took the time to leave my workplace early

It's already been a week I've been away from home

Time enough, time for the daffodils to flower

Time for the lawns to be more than my own

This is a poem from Filmic: Love of Our World of Purples & Blues

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Influential: I Don’t Think So

There are a good few of you out there

Neither in this phase or the other phase

Not fully included nor excluded entirely

From one day to the next in uncertainty

Past masters of being sat on the fence, though

Safe enough from being hung out to dry

Thanks to no real responsibility, no authority

No executive decision-making powers

A sideline commentator, a part-time visionary 

One who points out the cock-ups before they happen

But a man powerless in terms of prevention

Not great for a CV that’s for sure

But who ever got anywhere

Using the unmitigated truth

C'est la vie

This is a poem from Filmic: Love of Our World of Purples & Blues

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Our World of Purples & Blues

Our world of purples & blues

Our world of Arabs & Jews

Our world of thoroughbred truths

Our world

Our world of dyes and stains

Our world of pleasure that pains

Our world of time and again

Our world

You came in shades of flowers

You came so deep into the night

You came in variegated patterns

You came with fair & certain rights

Our world of purples & blues

Our world of Arabs & Jews

Our world of thoroughbred truths

Our world

Our world of lovers that hate

Our world this perilous state

Our world of temptress & fate

Our world

You came to me from ancient

You came to me from time

You came to me so patient

You came in an inkblot design

This is a poem from Filmic: Love of Our World of Purples & Blues

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Double Two

Twin carburettor

Dual streams of passion

Couplings of chains and silkworms

Ever to be the effervescent

No place for lent

However well meant

I am intent on duplication

The creation of parallel lives

With tales of past and future wives

Knives drawn and daggers sharpened

Harp on about Mneme, indefinitely

She holds her sway, still here today

These six years or more thereafter

As dust in the rafters, her craft

And guile, her half forgotten smile

Combine to taunt & haunt me

Close to the whispering harmonica

Inspired to have found

Such rich and common ground

Her sounds are your sounds

You rebound to her love and care

With care and love

Above all of that

These five years

Or more of a passion

Drawn to draw upon

This is a poem from Filmic: Love of Our World of Purples & Blues

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Precept

It is so easy to forget

Oui, je n'ai aucun regret

It as taken a while, yet

The demons seem to set

With the loss of the abject

Pain, indeed o yes I wept

Once a week in step

Distanced there to bet

Payment for the let

Dust that never swept

Returned by avocet

Ache of deeper debt

Your hold as we met

It is my only one regret

All that I recall I beget

Yet just so soon forget

Of all the times I crept

In nights I never slept

With dreams to intercept

The love of love I kept

This is a poem from Filmic: Love of Our World of Purples & Blues

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