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Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Daybreaks

Shuffled feet, peak caps
Youths disengaged

At the bus stop
Hour-long hairdo's
Are dampened down
By the mornings mist

Down the road
A mile or two
The silver sun
Breaks through

The aching female 
Sings her sultry song
Are you man enough
On the car radio

I ask myself 
Am I man enough
To face the day ahead
With a certain smile


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Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Fragments

Net curtains
Diffused sodium light

Open windows
Rumble by road-noise

Four shadowed walls
Unlocked doors

Knocked on 
By night-time security

The eleven-fifteen
To Kings Cross

Rattles its accompaniment
To bright eyes

With uninterruptible
Index fingers 


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Monday, 29 September 2014

Daily News

Half-lights and shadows
Messages from home

Soundbites
Economic TV blaggers

Come the day
They didn't build Rome


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Sunday, 28 September 2014

Chapel Poem

Two chairs, side by side
By the fire extinguisher
Shadows of calm foreboding

Footsteps all outside
Breath of breath my only music
Percolates the present’s presence

He stands in the doorway
With cigarette and mobile phone
She is further away
He remonstrates
It is a one way conversation

We don't do that confession stuff
Otherwise I would happily
Share a chair with you
Sit and talk, you know
Side by side

Welcome my brother
Please share my stillness
This is one cool place
On one warm day


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Saturday, 27 September 2014

Other Lights

Trees of bronze, fields of gold
Skies of blue, but turning cold
In my heart and in my voice
Seeking out the other choice

For my love and I we are caught
Life of work with families fraught
All the pains past teenage angst
Lets cut our losses & sail to France

Buy the gite and start to dance

Yet in truth we know we're tied
Fanciful times of love we cried
So smell the coffee & tie the lace
It’s off to work, we're on the case


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