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Tuesday, 2 December 2014

Kings Head

Edge of danger
You, excited
To place me
Outside my comfort zone

Alcohol and modish music
Rough diamonds
Minders and molls

Edge into danger
You, pushy
Pushing me
Into the middle of their pack

Rock and roll & sweet soul music
Crazed and crazy minds
Life here has taken its toll


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Monday, 1 December 2014

Don’t

Before the crescendo
Before the nightlight-doused
Songs and stories of sailors
Notes of notes, for notes

Patterns of preoccupations
Ploughed fields and the like
A desire to become foolish
Once more to act the clown

Only in defence of course
Neither guile nor indifference
To carry it off for real
Unsure enough for all that


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Sunday, 30 November 2014

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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Saturday, 29 November 2014

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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Friday, 28 November 2014

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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