Unpackaged

Final day
Penultimate Americano
Warm breeze
Clear, clean, promenade
Soon
A dip in the water

Alive to the voices
Grandparents
With skating bambino’s
Alive to the perfumes
The smiles
Of senses sensually massaged

A stride down the path
Later
Clear of doubts
Fresh in air
Last Americano
Prepared for departure

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Travellers

The aeroplane heads due south
Into a blue sky
Over the sea’s dark-blue horizon

My concentration is disturbed
Another aeroplane takes off
I turn to watch the new departure

When I turn back
The speck of silver
Which I had been following is gone

I repeat this process
Though I will not repeat it
In the poem

Other than to say
That this is the line up of transitory life
It is the path that many follow

One day you may engage
With the specks of silver
As if they speak of your pastimes

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Participate

In that past
Of absolute
And zero distant

In this present
Of convolute
And not yet occurred

Of absolute
And convolute

Of zero distant
And not yet occurred

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Palma

We have the gifts
Of the warm breeze of September
Of the carefree promenades
Of the distinctive Americano

With these gifts present
We take time to contemplate
We wake early to meditate
We make ourselves into ourselves

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Observe

The wave rises
Then pauses
Then falls

The sound climbs
Then stills
Then reverberates

The sky clears
Then clouds
Then coincident

The people walk
Then stand
Then converse

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