Tread On

 One step after another

One leather shoe

Following one leather shoe

Shoes for many occasions

Solid, reliable

Soled and heeled more that once

You would buy them again

If you could find them

If you could get your money-memory working

How many backward steps

Would it take to reach

That shoe shop, where you bought them new

That would be quite some journey

Wouldn’t it now

How many stories would  be turned up on the way

Hadn’t they been to a wedding

And more than one job interview

Most of which you did  take on

One job then another

One intentional step

Following one intentional step

One monikered stocking

After  another 

Snug-fitting, monikered stocking

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Manifesto

I walked along the cart track

Above and beside the potato field

I walked from the cottage

Behind the manor house at Mon Plaisir

Beauty may be in what you write

Or beauty may be in

What you think about, as you write

Beauty then is in your soul already

I walked into the farm-shop yard

Chatted to the workers and fellow shoppers

I ordered fresh vegetables, to be picked up later

Potatoes, carrots, peas and broccoli were packed

Taste may be imagined by the way that you write

Or taste may be in the growing and preparing

Yes taste caught by cooking and devouring

Taste then is in your soul already.

I walked down the hill to the Esplanade Road.

Then on, past the Catholic Church

To the newsagents & tobacconist, where

I bought a pack of filter-tipped, low-tar cigarettes

The faith may be in the words you write, whether

Or not you believe the smoke and mirrors

As you rub your fingers over the icon stonework

Faith then is in your soul already

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Look For The Stars

The big art

Moves from place to place

My points of connection

Physically

Are significantly restricted

I am one man

In one country

In a world

Of almost two hundred countries

And then what of the cosmos

Art

With cognitive significance

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Show Me Their Eyes

Aesthetics

Takes us to beauty

Which takes me to smiling faces

This is a most rewarding activity

Knowledge alone though is not sufficient

Even if pleasurable

Beautiful, expressive

It is only a part of our understanding 

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Colour Me Yellow

Two men talking

Sat on yellow chairs

With a light turquoise sea

For the outline

My very writing of these words

Changes the perspective

Of how being creative

Interrupts the spirituality

Or alternatively

By my engagement

I can find understanding

What kind of experience is it

Aesthetics and epistemology

Separate from theology

Not all art has anything

To do with religion

How do minds work

What am I aware of

What am I not aware of

Which works spark the hypothesis

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