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Saturday, 12 July 2014

Marinha

Scents of the sea
Sun soaked and shaded respite
Symphonies of waves, lovers at play
A nation, in conversation, within itself


This poem is from the collection 

Friday, 11 July 2014

Noise

Rework
Old sores poured over
Pavements lined with leaves
Perhaps the laburnum family

I kick my feet
On the surface of the pool
Create waved reflections
Of the open blue sky

Ever to have such certainty
That the angle grinder
Would surely have to grind
That as workmen, we work


This poem is from the collection 

Thursday, 10 July 2014

Sound Sea

As if the sound of Cadmium Red
Amid the drone of Shostakovich
Would improve the reflection


This poem is from the collection 

Wednesday, 9 July 2014

Set to Landscape

On this line, plunge into cold water
Roll back the excesses of yesterday
Be refreshed by a word; zest. Pen
Pressed against the ultra fine paper
Pathways through art & love & you
Tokens prescribed beneath the pines
In the hold of the breeze. In the hold
Of a need for a slight definite distance
As if the footsteps on the sands are the
Only waves that can break our hearts


This poem is from the collection 

Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Snapshots

Press the shutter
With a deliberate certainty
All of time thus withheld
From your creation

Shades and shadows merge
As do the layered conversations
Occasionally a quietness falls
Only to be broken

By those with a fear of silence
To talk of previous families
The development of generations
Each with their own closure

Some had stayed in the shadows
Odd ones had strayed to fame
Less found the unlikely fortune
Then of course there are

The ones we don’t talk about


This poem is from the collection