Givers

Almost too tired to write

Too tired to stir the chocolate powder

Into my bedtime drink

So tired that I fell asleep

Listening to the life story

Of the greatest writer of them all

Now, in a half alive recollection 

I remember an old colleague

A true gentleman of Eastern European origin

A pristine refugee engineer who 

(after he waxed lyrical) lent me his perfectly 

Preserved copy of Anna Karenina

I mention John in the same breath as Verity

Where are they now, where do our friendships 

(real and imagined) reside after those moments

When moments of joy are passed by

After those conversations and letters

Are, for a final time, passed over

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Hidden Away

On the money, with every given gift

Except unable to give the gift of love

Don't know why it had to be

Caught up in the criss-cross-fire of lust

Easier then to buy the artefact, the token

Less pain than the pain of life’s words spoken

To breeze in and breeze right on out again

Easier than the softness of one last soft refrain

Jealous of the sand dunes and the sea

Jeopardised by the shot at one time being free

Rebellious in the dance hall & the kissing tree

Intrepid owner of the visible, sparkle eyes to see

Laid up in the great big bed, music at my side

Lawrence ringing in my head, in memories to hide

Take them all and take again, drill down to the core

Afraid to speak, or more to move those slower steps 

Move slowly evermore, towards the chambers floor

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Filmic

Russian meadows, Yevtushenko's wolds

Orthodox church for all of farming stock

Idyllic imagery in slowed down slow motion

Sorrowful sorrows; ten words are ushered in

I am having a child, but it is not yours

Broken, taken at that instant, loss

Immense loss measured by desolate means

In union with the desperate soul who feels the

Crushing burden; the raw words of loneliness

Smiling eyes, cheerful conversation, an interlude, then

Death, comatose after the abortion, unquenched pain

The unrequited absence, loves abstention in abstensis

Our own destructions, laid bare, to flagrantly destroy us

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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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