Norfolk Quartet (4)

In abstensis

I am to leave you

Drive home

Record my movements

Recollect my thoughts

Upload my images

Then to pause, virtually

By the desk

By the computer

By the fullness of past times

Norfolk Quartet (3)

Light before dawn

Light beyond dusk

Light for the silence

Temptations of musk

Light for the noise

Light for the entropy

Light for the continuum

Temptations of rum

Light for the garden

Light for the house

Norfolk Quartet (2)

Quietly, on open marsh

Listen closely

So so easy simply to be

Salt laden air

Enters the nostrils

Oh such memories of joy

Settled, free and easy

Alone, yet not lonely

Waiting for nothing

Except knowing full well

Norfolk Quartet (1)

In abstensis

I came to see you

To walk on your shorelines

To stroll through your Fenlands

To visit your country houses

To place myself

Among your grand estates

I was nourished, virtually

By the seas, by the winds

By the emptiness

 

Diffusion

We all pass this way just the once

Some take on knowledge

Some make confounding statements

But we all pass this way just the once

The fortunate may find fair weather

Enjoy a fortuitous, easy life

Others might continuously struggle

But we all pass this way just the once

There are days when the sandbanks are flooded

There are days when men take sleighs on ice

Then, for the fishermen, the salmon come home

But we all pass this way just the once

Some chap studied to become a solicitor

Some chap stepped into the shoes of Rome

Then the lucky one, dressed in silk, with a silver spoon

But we all pass this way just the once