The Love And Death Of Poetry

I love my toes

With the diabetes

Heaven knows

Those long ball throws

All began

In the spring of toes

I love my fingers

Words written

So as not to ring her

Soft touch that brings 

Her nearer now

To my loaded Dillinger

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Flip Aside

I don’t know myself

Although I do know

That I easily get annoyed

And that often I smile

One night in drizzle

A long way from any home

I waited for a late night bus

In a happy state of mind

One day in sunlight

Sat out on the back step

I waited, not knowing for what

In my beleaguered muddle

I don’t know myself

Although I do know

That often I smile, and

That I easily get annoyed

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Back A Life

Zodiac signs from distant times

Did you too once believe in love

On the late night bus

To the party in the field

Then along came the moment

When you felt you almost

Remembered those moments

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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

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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

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