A Little Sitting

Breakfast was a cold buffet affair, continental as it is so called, so I am told, in more exploitative places.

I am reminded of the German, three-storey, three-family house, where we stayed when working at Hannover Fair.

Sun-bleached grasses decorate the gentleman’s urinals. I have no second point of reference on this occasion, it has been a quiet life.

A photograph of Queen Victoria looks out across the garden. She would have no need of the Japanese fan today.

It is quite truly an oasis of calm; beneath the worlds busiest flight path, besides the Dockland's Lightest Railway.

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Royal Foundation of St. Katherine

16:58
Tall Windows
Aircraft overhead
Distant traffic altercations

My feet are tired with the walking
Although on this day
We have much further yet to walk

We had lunch at the Italian restaurant
Sated, we soon had had enough
Of the afternoon shopping expedition

Under my skin I feel resounding warmth
A buzz that comes
From a few quiet moments in the chapel

My football team went and lost again today
I expect the managers head may soon roll
Yet tomorrow
We will all catch our trains home

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Shot

The silver bark
Of the silver birch
The golden leaf
Of England's church

The native lark
Of natures morn
The tied up sheaf
Of country sworn

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Polished

We walk on the wall tops
Between promenade and sea
Beneath silver moonlit clouds
Reflecting the castle on the waves

We turn, and then turn again
To be the harlequins of the night
Clothed in silk and braid and velvet
Dancing to the dark oceans rhythms

I never would have flown,
Or made such a wondrous leap
If love that came calling had not been
So damned well beautifully overwhelming

We walk the cities streets, sodium
On the spires, halogen on the fountains
We see the polished balls roll on green baize
With their cue masters settled in the cloisters

We turn, and then turn again
To be favourites of the famous
Graciously groomed and prepared
Singing with those sisters of harmony

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Covers

I watched you write
In your smart striped suit
Thinking, as one might
I’d rather like those boots

Your hands so slow
With eyes set keen
We sit in rows, now
Where have you been

You pause for a drink
Also me, yes this is me
I will not sink
Can’t you see

The echoes fall
Resoundingly so
You make your call
I, I have to go

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