Lamb & Mint
In a sausage roll
With or without
Deli-coleslaw
How is it to be
Setting out
How is it to be
Returning
Each to leave
An empty house
As we go away
On our vacation
How is it to be
Growing old
How is it to be
Recollecting youth
Most days I would try to write a poem; it is a practice, as I suppose is meditation, or smiling, or watching the world go by
Lamb & Mint
In a sausage roll
With or without
Deli-coleslaw
How is it to be
Setting out
How is it to be
Returning
Each to leave
An empty house
As we go away
On our vacation
How is it to be
Growing old
How is it to be
Recollecting youth
IOS
Logo
For all things
Isle of Scilly
IOS
On T-Shirts
Sweatshirts
And wrist bands
IOS
On steamships
Rowing boats
And heliport shuttles
IOS
Symbolic
Of Island life
For the holidaymakers
Now here
Know where
To belong
For way longer
Than you thought
Making out
You are
Staying in
We are approaching
Old Town
Which is a place
Definitely a place
But there’s nothing there to do
This afternoon
There is an Old Town Inn
And an Old Town Café
But both are securely closed
I’m quite happy
No you are not
It probably thinks
That you are an Agapanthus
We could hire
A buggy tomorrow
To see more of the island
But why
Why would I want to do that
Moss
Moss and
Lichen
All over the tree
Wildlife
Ponds neglected
Neglected
By the likes of you and me
September Sunday wetlands
Wetlands for the lonely
The quiet
And the outlandishly free
One stick per person
To prod, prod
To release the inquisitive
Inside of you and me