Plasterer

I had read in David Lynch's book Catching The Big Fish that it was important to put plenty time aside if one wanted to be creative

He suggests if I understand him right that at least four hours of preparation are needed for each and every hour of creativity

With this in mind I planned to spend the all of Monday morning in the Old Stables doing some recording of my poetry and doing some clay work forming

As it happened I began writing in bed almost as soon as I woke and as soon as I rose the plasterer was knocking on the door for he had come to finish off the spare bedroom ceiling

He wasn't due to arrive until the afternoon but hey ho with the best laid plans of mice and men my plans were scuppered odd how I find it difficult with anyone else in the house to truly engage or infuse myself in creativity

I did take the time to visit St Petersburg via Google Maps then to add a few racy words to my novella

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She Chooses I Choose

She chooses music to play on her stereo
I choose to write about you before you go

She chooses to kneel in bare feet
I choose your footprints in the wet sand
She chooses Aztec designs for her fabrics
I choose the gold reflection in your suntan

She chooses partly painted floors of blue
I choose turquoise as a reminder of you at your best
She chooses a ruffled simple cotton top
I choose to undress you to gently caress your breasts

She chooses to let her hair fall on to her shoulders
I choose to think of your hair held with a velvet slide
She chooses to reach right out with her left arm
I choose to think of you as you slowly draw me inside

She chooses to keep books beneath her sofa
I choose to cherish and posit those books you bought
She chooses music to listen to played on her stereo
I choose to write for you about you the you I caught

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On Reaching Calm

Roll a few balls of clay
Roll out a few strings of clay
Write words from a book
A present thus twice received
Type up your own notes
Of words spoken on the move
Words of love and life and you

Before all of this light the stove
Listen to Willie Nelson's Spirit twice
Let the wax melt to create an aroma
Of the seashore and the samphire
Warm the coffee on the hot plate read
From Soul Dust : The Magic of Consciousness
Take everything in or let everything
Float right on over immerse yourself
In you you and your outstanding life

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Sheen Of Metallic Black Sapphire

The fine mist drifts onto the polished painted metal surface
A new beginning
The mind sifts through the past experiences
Sincere in its request to find happiness

The millions of minute water droplets each find
Their own sense of space perspective and wholeness
Time and life itself can be counted by the growth
Of the quiet explosions of damp air piling onto the roof

All along indebted to another the brother
Of my consciousness lies on that waterproof plain
Stained by one fine drop followed by one fine drop
Followed by one fine drop
Followed by a few more lines of repetition

An expedition into the nowhereness of those few moments
Of ink on paper of pen in hand
Of car parked outside the hotel's spa complex
Egocentric lives on the song of slightly open windows
Thoughts of a vehicle to rebuild a life a style a purpose

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Silence

Gathered souls gathered today
Collected from many to gift away
On the breath of the leaf

That one petal afloat on the breeze
From one winter and towards one spring
Without noise nor neither disruption to leave
The silent flower from bud did begin

And out in the distance
She walks by moonlight and snow
Sending the photographs of absence
And the silence she hopes to bestow

And up in the dales
With dark skies and pours of rain
He catches the light neat light
With the silence of slight refrain

Gathered souls gathered today
Collected from many to gift away
On the breath of relief

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