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Monday, 5 April 2021

The Only Other Man

You went to walk away
I walked that way too
You closed the openness of love
I broke the outbound spell you threw

I am here in my capsule
I wander in and out of clouds
I hear; yes I hear you too
Loneliness at peace in truth

I walk today
With the only other man
Distracted but intact
By the pact of a shorter span

I cried at the funeral
Tears to the tune of a song
I cried at the eulogy
Fears that still wander on

I cried at the poetry
Arrears in the name
Of the unknown
Poets near-on refrain

Back from quite a journey
I wander in and out of rooms
And I hear; I hear you too
Peacefulness alone with proof


Sunday, 4 April 2021

Rolled By

Eight-thirty came and went
Was that the seven o’clock that rolled by

Half past nine stayed steady and sent
Another dream to magnify

Ten past ten the postman was meant
Sign here please; I said goodbye

Elevenses, a break, a magic moment lent
Seconds, bunched in garlands lie

Melancholic, but only for a while
Hopeful is more my recent style


Saturday, 3 April 2021

The Store Is Bare

Tell me a joke
No
Why not
There are no jokes left
The joke board is bare

No jokes, you joke 
Sing me a song
No, why not
There are no songs
The song store is bare

A story
A poem perhaps
Talk to me of miracles
Of mischief, or just
The bare necessities

The pen is dry
The paper is blank
The recorder is out of tape
My memory chips are corrupted
Storage is inaccessible

It will
Have to be
New
Made up
From base

Emptiness
Mist
Loneliness
Kissed
Love, and all of that


Friday, 2 April 2021

Point & Click

Eden
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Sennen
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Imagery
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Preventative
Medication

Distractions
Creations

Point 
And click

Reactions
Implementations
The thin
Lead stick

Inventoried
Edification

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Thursday, 1 April 2021

Take Either + Distillation

It is then
Is it not
All the same

So
Given choice
Take either

For
At the end
As along the way

It is then
Is it not
All the same


Serially insidious
Walk on, fastidious
From individual

Through to indivisible
On into the hardly visual
Merely meander, in mystery

Now, quite inconspicuous
Yet eerily for books
A vortex spinnable

Totally so so visible
See for all
Hopelessly inadmissible