Friday morning on the seafront

Friday morning on the seafront

Ocean liners on the ocean line

Out there are the Channel Islands

The accident soon became the design

Once again to thinking of setting sail

Or of boarding the thirty-minute flight

Such is the hopeless old romantic

With his penchant for second sight

The hearing is the hearing is the hearing

Away from most of all distraction

With the foretaste of nights of satin

This item craves signs of satisfaction

For stories of hotel bedrooms

With birthday parties for the girls

Step after step down the catwalk

Her smile for your life seriously unfurls

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On the bench for Eddie Northway

On the bench for Eddie Northway

Sat looking out to sea

With sunlight on the ripples

Of the memories for you and me

Waiting for the news of the future

A momentous turn of life

With the deity of the past behind us

Remember: the two-step of Johann Cruyff

I dare not, do not, say not

With hopes to occupy the mind

I am not, here not, say not

With thoughts reaching for sublime

Why are, why do, why why

With hornets, wasps and bees

The warm sun is the reason

For promenades by palm trees

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There’s both a lot to remember

There’s both a lot to remember

As well as nothing at all

There’s a dog no longer barking

It’s the rise before the fall

Look behind to the beach huts

And the ferry waiting for the call

It’s the out of season vacations

For those pensioners on a roll

You might forgive me the blue skies

After a lifetime reliving Love on the Dole

I could be a porter on a mail train

Or a diarist for my old friend Adrian Mole

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I have been putting it off

I have been putting it off

But I can do so no longer

I have to face up

To a life to be lived alone

On the 17th of October

I will sign on the dotted line

As the tenant of 14, The Green

On the Revesby Estate

I have made plans of the layout

As you might expect

And modified the timetable

To acknowledge the changes

But, as to giving any thought

Of how life is to be lived

Well no, no I have not yet found

The way to access that particular realm

The practicalities will be practically determined

But the spirituality, the nurture of the inner being

That may take a little while, to reference

The depths of deeper consciousness

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The calm

The calm

Of St Marys

Is not the surf

Of Sennen Cove

The peace

That lasts

Is not the distress

Of a return

The butterfly

With vanilla wings

Is not the mirage

From your garden

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