Shades of Day

I had no need

Other than to walk

Or to write

To reinvigorate

My mind, my body

Even might I say my soul

Yet, in that moment

A cloud covered the sun

The light wavered

I waited, not for too too long

For soon, joy upon joy

The brightness returned

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Existential

I saw my own joy

I heard my own laughter

I was with friends

They helped to make me

I was my self

I was my awareness

In a mind

Which was relieved and thankful

I may be there again

Another time, another place

A not dissimilar mind

Necessary to function

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Stay Safe

I have the two lives

Three if I count my own

For sure I will survive

Over the years

Have I not been robust

Even when at the limits

I have pushed on

Regrouped

As we all have

No special praise is sought

Yet still I remain firm

There is no great creator

Although it is hard to imagine

The amazing intricacies

Which make me the man I am

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Happy Birthday

It was a gift

And for sure

The givers knew

That it would bring me pleasure

What they didn’t know

And neither did I realise

That by close reading

Then using for inspiration

That I would be released

Freed to write in a new way

Making many past and present connections

Both from near home, and also from, yes, from so so far away

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Alphabetical

All around are artefacts

Bought, brought, befriended

Corners checked, crossovers crossed

Down deep, deeper down, deep depths

Except elongations, elongated exceptionally easily

For flowers, for floods, for Flodigarry

Goes, go, great garrulous Gorbals

High, higher, heavy, heavier, hiatus

Inside, in, inward, indescribable indeed

Joy, joy, joy jumps, jeeps, Jasmine, Jerome K Jerome

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