Wired-Less

Sheer excitement

Let me name it laudable (or laughable)

Excited by a telephone number

With a recognisable area code

What right have I

Still to make connections

Are you there?

Is anybody there

The black and white keys

Stroked with such certainty

Sure of a lighter mood, yet

Mindful of a minor refrain

As the hall doorway opens

All cobwebs are dusted

By the flight of her body

In search of the handset

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Faith Wrap

Into and out of the darkness

Only briefly to sidle up

To the edge-lines of paranoia

Still to search out beauty

In the scentless black tulip

Still to wonder on truth

In the words of named poets

Into, again into, the pleasures

All hours to dream & daydream

On sounds of pianos and minarets

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Past Present Echoes

All to hear
The ears ring
The wind blows
The pen scrapes the paper
The only connection
Is within

Within these words
Words only of our pasts
Our present futures
Where do they go to
My lovely

All to hear
The ears ring quietens
The wind blows louder
The pen pauses for breath
The only connection
Remains within

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Trains And Thoughts And Dames

I woke at six to be with you

To be with you in spirit

In spirit as you travelled

Travelled to your friends

I woke fair slow to leave

To leave the dreams of you

Dreams of you quietly giving me

Giving me your telephone number

I could call

I could text

We could engage

In simple conversation

For after all

Whatever’s next

If all we maintain

Is self preservation

Home at seven to write of you

To write of you on your cold 

On your cold dark journey

From seven to eleven quite how to say to you

Quite how to say to you, thanks for giving me

Thanks for giving me your telephone number

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Forgetful

Free from intrusion

Able to write

Read

Listen

Take myself off

Into that other place

A journey

Eased by welcome

Eyes closed

Posture restful

Spreadeagled

Without defence

Warm paths

Just before autumn

The love of I love you

On sand and...no

I cannot bring

The word to mind

This happens

More often now

If only the Machair scanned

That would have got me off the hook

...flotsam ...jetsam ...surf

...shingle

Grass or pampas, pray please help me

It was all along the five mile road

Between tar-macadam and sea

The dunes, yes that’s it, the dunes

Don’t you remember

I ran down them and fell

I was totally exhilarated

Some called it love

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