Small Joys

Bright lights

In the morning mist

Fence-top & hedgerow

With the lightest dewdrop

Each sous ever so slightly kissed

Resist the fall to maudlin

As if old times pasts are past

Psyche & aura

Become the brightest crop

Vous de vous - to the very last

Distant piano keys

Tap out the sounds of Liszt

Love’s near; autumn days

Decline to faintness, fail to hope

All of all we are the ones left to cope

From the Kindle collection at Amazon 

Upright & Laid Out - Love of Cherry Red

Hollow Winds

Far apart

Hills, valleys

Epochs of understatement

Sat, stood

Eyes over water

Eyes lifted, up to sky

Stillness & vast frustrations

To have loved

To have lost

Back, to the dammed upstream

Start over

Listen to the rows and arguments

Far apart

Older generations

Impatient with their lust

From the Kindle collection at Amazon 

Upright & Laid Out - Love of Cherry Red

Labelled

Is it such a bad thing

In such a long run

To pick out one bad thing

After another

So easy to lose touch

Mostly fragile

Much too shy to say

Let bygones be

The pen now a crutch

For the clutch of sparrow-hawks

That chalk the inner walk

In place of open talk

The one bad thing

That led to another

Doubts intrinsically rose

One hope is to rediscover

From the Kindle collection at Amazon 

Upright & Laid Out - Love of Cherry Red

Come Back

Only if it could be said

If I could speak

With a clearer voice

I had a choice, always

But almost always

I was highly excitable

From the Kindle collection at Amazon 

Upright & Laid Out - Love of Cherry Red

Best Rest Yet

As if the resonance

Sounds that say

The blood is still filtered

The heart pumps to the brain

& tonight, all that is not forgotten

Can be laid to rest

As if some force or test

Surrounds our rights of way

That why with which we play

Those so dear to us, no fear

Even nearer

Doubt not, we did our best

From the Kindle collection at Amazon 

Upright & Laid Out - Love of Cherry Red