Invisible, Indivisible

Where is the calm
Where are the spaces
Along the lines

Where are the mines
Where are the faces
Committing the crimes

Where are the signs
For the calming traces
Charmed by indefinite designs

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Determined, Or Not

A long view
From a long time ago
So long that you would not believe
The road would still be blocked by snow

A longer view
From a longer time ago
So long that you would not believe
The workmen’s bus made it through the snow

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Ascendant

I was there
In the moment
Transported
By sublime music

I was beyond myself
Transcendent, thanks
To sheep’s intestines
And real horse hair

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Mr Reliable

Right after noon
I brew the coffee
Plug the computer
Back into the power supply
Turn on the stereo
Select the Flower Duet playlist
The morning's work is done in my world

And by that
I mean poems drafted
Poems typed up
Poems edited
Poems posted on the blog
That, and a short reading
From How Great Poems Transform The World

And I watched a video
Posted on Facebook
By my friend Graham Juggins
The video is of good guy Roger Waters
Making an impassioned plea
For young musicians and composers
To be given a fair chance in this world

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Round, Round Again

The table
And its shadow
Could be an introduction
To a work by MC Escher

The vase
And the photograph
Each have their own reflection
Thanks to Pilkington glass

I, on the other hand
Read of ‘Otherness’
Where I am led
By Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings

All the while
The black and orange twigs
In the cream and black, enamel jug
Simply, silently, serenely watch on

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