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Tuesday, 15 February 2022

Perceptive - Seeing Is Believing

Does the blackbird scuttle
Due to the sounds or the vibrations issued
By my feet heavily stepping on the flagstones

Or do my piercing eyes
Effectively order the bird to take cover
Beneath the winter bushes
Which are distinctly smothered in morning dew

Do you perceive more than I 
Is there a morphic resonance
Which connects, outside of chance
Or coincidence; or am I simply lost

Is the date of the video being loaded
Any more significant than that of a birthday
Of course the experiments could be fake
But an academic taboo restricts disclosure

Instead to see you at the seashore
Where your consciousness expands
Out into a life within my life
A place where I am happy to welcome you


Monday, 14 February 2022

Disruptive - At Your Pleasure

So many thoughts
Way too many thoughts
Who is man enough
To hold onto so so many thoughts

Then the noises
Here, there, and everywhere the noises
Now, then, and whenever the noises
Up, down, and turnaround to the noises

But also
The glimpses of beauty
The deep releases of sneezes
To blow everything up, or close everything down

So many thoughts
The temples are vibrating
First with one thing, then with the other
Before it all kicks off all over again

Then the noises; where are you now
Where will you be tomorrow
Is there any chance at all
That we could share a conversation


Sunday, 13 February 2022

No, Not That Way - This Is A Better Way For You

Instead of losing your attachments
Why not try to hold onto them
Try as hard as ever you can
Don’t let go, whatever you do

Not of lost love
Or past memories
Not of secrets, or promises
Or anything which gifts you joy

It is foolish to believe
That if you lose attachments
You will relieve your suffering
If anything the opposite is so

Instead of banishment
Turn to celebration
Dust off the cobwebs from your photographs
Buy no more love-psychology books

Make a collage of words and pictures
To breathe new life
Into that which the miserable buggers
Would have you throw away


Saturday, 12 February 2022

Vacate - With Such Joy

I haven’t got going
It’s cold, I’m cold
I nearly bought a present
I almost sent a message
I felt, I felt
A bit better about myself

I haven’t got going
The feeling is cold
The intention is colder
I did have one warm thought
Then another, about the icicles 
At Hambleton, near Rutland Water


Friday, 11 February 2022

Ash In Tow - Also In The Grate

The Bay hunkers down
As the wind introduces itself
To a day of majestical purpose

The wood-burner flue warms up
Even with the flames
Struggling to catch hold

What was that word
Which you failed to remember
After yesterday morning’s meditation

Something similar in sound or meaning
To bestow or all aglow
Definitely with a resounding so so ending