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Body

Mind

Perception

Swell those great perceptions

A drink

Another drink

Feet tap to the music

A song

A video

Dialect 

& Futurama

Move

Across the stage

A better view

A clearer sound

Another drink

Friends in conversation

He sits alone

Picks at the words

Congratulates the singer

They talk of dance

Of Tango nights

Sublimity of movement

Through quiet streets

Down lamplit lanes

Paths across the garden

Late night TV

A bed of play and sleep

To wake so very early

Touch hold of this

One time

One more time of many

Love falls easy

On the eve of circumstance

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Once, just once

When the race was won

She said well done

Then left alone

Founded on floundering sand

Landed, but swept

Wept & weeping

At the weepers stone

Held together

By a collection of tablets

A pay cheque

And some thing called love

Love

The welcome smile of welcome

Love

The hugs before & after dark

Love

Togetherness tied together

Love

A life ahead with promise

Catch hold of naught but air

Through your body

Through your mind

Through your great perceptions

Naught but air

To speak

To breathe

To entire embrace with love

Catch hold

Deft of touch

Secure of strength

Capricious of capacity

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Tears

Tears without a word 

Wordless so spoken

So far away they smart

We live, we love

We hide to seek out life's compassions

We love, we live

Strong to weak we eke out surplus fashions

Love to live

Mild & meek

We weep the tears

Tears of the bleak

Tears of the broken

And the ones

Awoken 

Yet at once departed

Deep curtains, hung capricious

Sentence unfamiliar voices to the dark

Stark outpourings

From the kestrel to the rise of lark

All the while the city lights flicker

Floodlit auditoriums for Sid Viscous

Down the rivers and the valleys

Transition town nights are suspicious

Deep curtains that hold the heat

Silence unfamiliar choices that bark

Marker lines

From the mountains to the sparks

No Game

How many more

Snatches at the mirror

How many more

Changes of home

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Time lost, time wasted

Time to dream

Time I could have tasted

Bare feet up on the dashboard

Clear blue sky overhead

All sunglasses and turned up stereos

Stop, go, stop, step out

Shorts

Mobile phone 

Insurance details

For the side-stream

Supplementary shunt

Shadows under the parapet

Loud roar of traffic

Muffled whirl of helicopter blades

Lorries pulled onto the hard shoulder

Go, stop, go

Are we really going

No, no not yet

No - I really don't think so

Drive by the same old faces

Find a place, take a chance

Finger dance

To Rod Stewarts Downtown Train

Fishermans' hat

They left the cat at home

Someone has to draw the dole

To pay for this short break they've stole

At the early onset of the summer

Tears

Tears that talk

Of broken

& somehow apart

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Down to the azure sea

But this is England

Where I travel from the North, my homeland

To the South, for most certain the land of others

Traffic slows

Accident signs flash

Last week

About to be replicated

How soon before

Frustration sets in

Wasted time

Wasted life

Wasted in dreams

Wasted while awake

In front 

O'Neil Transport of Ireland

All green and shamrock

To the side 

Arwel Thomas' Heavy Haulage

Heading for the bridge back to Wales

Steaming past, quite slowly actually

A young couple in their Hyundai Sport Coupe

With twin chrome exhausts surely entwined

A green triangle

Backdrop for a lighter green circle

Both cut through with wavy lines

A logo of sorts

For QDS

Deliverers of land regeneration

Stop, go, stop

I joined the queue at 9:45

Already it is 10:30

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