Obligations

A rugby match
Between Exeter
And some place in France
A wild windy Saturday
When the English
Were expected to win

I did go to a game in Bodmin
Or was it Truro
Something to do with work
Corporate entertainment
Turning out to support the cause
I think you stayed home

Which maybe
Is where you are now
Although you too
Could be turning out
Also for the cause
As you might well say

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Be

The enclosures of silence
Umpteen walls, floors
Doors, corridors
Take us to and from
The rooms of solemn being

It is dusk as I walk
From the restaurant
Where they have wi-fi access
Why in this half-light
Do I feel so empowered

So smitten
By the castle like stone
As if I was
In that other-worldly place
Of all knowing, of all being

Ever so serious
In a space I call:
Peace, truth, beauty, love
For I know
No better words

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Limerence

I don’t ever let go
Neither will I on this day
Saturday night is alright for dancing
As they say
Down down, deeper and down
Beyond the fires flickering flame
Further even than the howling wind
Closer up than the lead on the windows

Tip tap goes the snapped glass
Pass yourself off as a lover do you
The one-time mother of intervention
Sense all of what it is which I sense I say
Turn over a new leaf
That last fallen leaf of autumn
Snatch the glory from the thief
With the intensity of such fond found belief

I would have asked, but didn’t
For fear of what we now call rejection
Such attention which overcomes
With howls, with tears, with despair
I do hope to explain, in the coming days
I have brought a book to help me
Yet, in this moment, or so it seems
We are the first case study

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Entry Point

The door slams shut behind me
The sign on the door says

Enclosure
Strictly Private

I have left the choir practising
They will be back at seven
For the real reason thing

I am in a different room
Which will I think, be quieter
Though it is beside the kitchen

I have left my charging devices
For iPad and iPhone at home
Also the shoulder soothing wheat-bag

John asked
Do you stay in a monastery cell?
No

It is en-suite with a carpeted floor
A mock, log-effect electric fire
Yet there is peace

Other than the wind noises
It is entirely quiet
A good place for a few days

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Film

I do not mind doing voice-overs
But I do not wish to be filmed whilst speaking

I do not mind writing the narrative words
Though I do not want to be filmed when writing

I do not mind walking on contemplative walks
But I do not wish to be filmed contemplating

I do not mind being the one who is the one
Though I do not wish to be filmed as if being the one

I do not mind being a part of the stillness
But I do not wish to be filmed as that stillness

I do not mind being a part of the silence
Though I do not wish to be filmed as that silence

I do not mind being a part of the prayer
But I do not wish to be filmed in that prayer

I do not mind being up in the middle of the night
Though I do not wish to be filmed during the night

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