Ancient Night

To say, with a slant how easily the ink flows

In time with Bodhrán, in tune with trembled lute

To kick step

Back on to the straight and varied

No room here for lust or love

No courtship of free-flowing

Nor frozen memories

At that the song ends

Its partner takes to the dance floor

Slow steps

Lithesome glides

Sunlight of shadow

Her voice enters; how not to give

Having, as you have, given all before

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I Or Almost Or I

I make this mark as a way to begin

A doorway through which to enter

The music is vaguely religious

With deep, folk-root, overtones

The heavy curtains are drawn

Spotlights cast long shadows

I have read from Edgelands; learnt of an artist by the name Chell of who might well have captured the verges that I hoped to draw, or write of

I have read from Falling Upward of the two halves of life; reflected on my strong similarities to the failings of others on the road to maturity

Before the fever takes hold

As I fear the fever no doubt will

I stretch full to say ‘then take me’

To write as would a man possessed

I make this mark as a way to end

A doorway through which to depart

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Eyelid Designs

Squares morph into triangles

They change at various rates

All their lines

Dotted & bedazzled

Close your eyes 

Take a breath

Music you hear

Ambient Electronica

Close your eyes

Let the shapes

Become visual

Rails morph into circles

Their ends join as same

Both their tines

Rotten & bedraggled

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Shore Walk

Pier & swim & splash

From crash of wave

To sunlit line of horizon

On & on & on at one

Butterfly catches the rye

As the baby’s cries echo

Fresh throws of summer

Beneath the spray

Days thoughts gone, astray

Stripes & stripes & stripes 

& stripes take sides to bathe

Twixt mother and child

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Seasonal

The mornings autumn colours

The mornings autumn mist

I am lifted, the drift

If that is what it is, continues

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