Objective One

Hollow out the history
Revert to the core
The kernel, the nucleus
Before corruption
Moved in, and took hold

Take it right back
To the one, and the other one
Or to the one all alone
Alone then to contemplate
To speak, or to scribe

That is to have the one thought
Or the one thought with one other
As if the weighing scales might balance
Or tip heavily
Towards the one most wordy

Yes, take yourself right back
Prior to any contamination
Such that innocence was abroad
For one thought to follow one other
With no predetermined forces in play

That is to have a clear thought
A clean thought
A thought not tainted by baggage
That baggage of your past, or your future
That baggage of your desire, or your lust

Just stay with the whiff of perfume
With ample room for estrangement
Clear of the danger which arises
With the crisis of those thoughts
Hollowed out from the core

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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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