Slide - Ending In Calm

The rains have been

The sea has been

The salt flats are soddened

The ground slips

Beneath my fanciful trainers

I do a kind of arthritic splits

The style stays with me

One more accident

In a lifetime full of calamities

 

Before The Voice - Simply The Stature

I will have this moment

Nothing can take that away

And so it is also with zillions

Of previous memories

But this particular time

Of decision and indecision

Needs to find its own secure place

On the see-saw of life

That is why I mention

The Victoria Sponge

And the cup of Americano coffee

As I look out over marsh and sea

I thought it was my friend the farmer

With a walkie-talkie

Looking for the Red Kite

But I could have been mistaken

 

Departures - And Connections

I was searching

I found love

I am leaving

It is a dull day

The hedge tops have been trimmed

Although further south they haven’t

There are blue skies

At this point of the compass

The sea sparkles to move me

I am searching

I found love

I am leaving

 

Meditation - Good For You, Good On You

There need be no one else

In this time of stillness

To be honest it’s better that way

For peace and quiet

Is a prerequisite

To find and enter the deeper thoughts

Just now for instance

Taken to the meadow

Taken to the island seas

And before that

To nowhere at all

Looking into the near and far distance

 

Catching On - Caught Up

A collar

A heel

The need to feel

Somehow really good

A gesture

A pleasantness

The need to suggest

A sense of a new beginning

A hand

A smile

The need to style

Our very next moves

A morning sun

A flowing breeze

The need to seize

This beautiful day