Rain

There is a song at the waters edge

There are pebbles on vacant sands

There are swirls

Where the water heads towards the sea

There are people, why wouldn't there be

The beauty of this beach idyll

Is then all but beaten out of me

By Kate's insistence

That we carry on walking in the rain

Towards a small dwelling

With four windows and a door.

I go along with the daftness for a while

But finally insist on returning to the hotel

Kate takes shelter

She walks to my left side away from the slanting rain

My right side becomes soddened.

At the cross roads we turn right

Now we walk directly into the wind, and rain

Kate takes shelter

She walks just short of a rainfalls depth behind me

My front becomes entirely soddened

A calm emerges, clear light ahead

There are songs in my heart

There are stones for my feet to kick

There are puddles for children to skip and splash in

There are people, why wouldn't there be

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Willie’s Campaign

A warmer wind

Nine seagulls on sentry duty

On top of the ferryboat docking posts

Out in the sound

Past the buoys and the markers

Beyond the Shiants and the planned fish-farms

A warmer water

More suited to dolphins and whales

Soaked in the dreams of human pastimes

Framed for the canvas

Stilled by the paintbrush, or camera

Settled by the slower words, with irregular verse

Eighteen months later Willie emailed me to say the campaign had been successful and that planning permission for the fish farm had been refused

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Framed

Endless shimmer

Wave after wave of nostalgia

Patterns thought never to be repeated

Still to bring their own sense of before

Here & now for all the while

Onto afterwards, ever so slowly

Photographers flip out

Their flip-up cameras

Form into rows and rows

To capture the ferry's berth

We are number two

In the orderly queue

Later we will look back

With a self satisfied smile

On our fellow travellers

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Itinerant

A hive and a beanstalk
A tin hut on the bog
Heaven on a peat moor
Slow down you dancing frog

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Solitude No More

You think I want to be here alone

I want to tell you that plainly isn't true

The reason that I'm here at all

Is because I want to be here with you

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