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Thursday, 19 September 2019

Soup (Without Predetermination)

I lifted the latch on the church door, then pushed open the imposing piece of timber.

Come in, shouted the voice, but close the door behind you, keep the heat in.

I did enter, and I did smell the soup, which the two workmen, sat at a cloth-covered card-table by the altar, were pouring into bowls, from their flasks.

I thought to take a photograph, but chose against that, largely for privacy's sake.

I thought to talk to them, but decided not to, for they were already in full flow.

Instead I determined, to try and remember what a good moment this was, which I had been so so fortunate to witness.



Wednesday, 18 September 2019

Vertigo (Without Resolution)


Lighthouse, and vertigo
Radar-ball, and vertigo
Coastal-path, and vertigo
You get to the point
Hartland Point, and vertigo



Tuesday, 17 September 2019

Frills (Without Embraces)

It would be wrong of me not to arrest the images of you, scantily clad, in the shortest of frilly skirts; you bring me close to you, I am unable to stop the thought processes; for miles and miles I am thus absorbed.

I even begin to wonder if I will ever be able to shake off these thoughts; what if they were always to stay with me, my eyes feel heavy, my head feels heady.

I am driving towards you, albeit, in my own version of the truth, I am driving for a quite different purpose; hours go by before I reach anywhere near your vicinity.

The sadness is scattered to the moorland, the hurt lies on the riverbed, the immense fear, for isn't it the greatest of fears, to be fearful of oneself, is inculcated into the baron landscape.

I walk the dark streets, too dark for my camera to develop the warm glow (to the naked eye) of the church clock.

As I pass the bus station I make up a story, about my B&B being just behind here, behind this very place, where three times every hour the buses will arrive.

To carry out their complicated, and seriously noisy, and intrinsically disturbing, reversing manoeuvres, before they accelerate, with loud aggression.

To depart, on their way to who knows where; the buses are empty now, and I expect that will also be the case, many hours later


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Monday, 16 September 2019

Trepidation (Without Gratification)

Quite the opposite to Emptiness Dancing
Brought on, in part, by today's destination
And last night's early disruptive dream
Neither of which I desire to expand upon
Except to say that relationships
And their dissolution, played significant parts

Not at all the synthesis
Of the sunlight, and the leaf, and the raindrop
As enveloped
On that quiet Sunday morning in the countryside

Nor as felt
On that slow drive, along narrow, puddled lanes
With hedgerows guarding the ploughed fields
With trees sprinkling, not interfering, with the view

Quite the opposite to the moorlands
With their exposed outcrops of rock
Where the blue, serially activates the doubt within


Sunday, 15 September 2019

Last Thoughts :: First Thoughts

I wrap my arms around you
Pull you close
It is the end of this day
The night is now beginning

I wrap my arms around you
Pull you close
We are the love together
Our hold is our beginning

You wrap your arms around me
Pull me close
It is the beginning of our night
The end of this good day

You wrap your arms around me
Pull me close
We are the love together
Our love is our beginning


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