Moves and Movies

The dustbin lids

Are frosted over

Last night I watched

Indecent Proposal

Is our relationship

Truly at an end

Isn’t this what

We always envisage

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Sledge

Did I leave you this way

With the promise of a future

With that as the ending to the day

Did you believe any of those words

Though didn’t you say

There are all kinds of relationships

And now

With light through both windows

I may as well predict anything I wish

Exquisite I think I said

More than once

If deeper truths be known

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The best of guides

Stepping onto the ferry

Having spent the night

In a roadside hotel

Where wagons continually sped by

Stepping off the ferry

With miles of open road ahead

All the way from Dublin to Killarney

From the blue sea to the Black Mountain

Stepping into the bars where tourists dwell

Also where the national anthem

Is observed at closing time

As in the days of old

Stepping out into the countryside

To take a ride in a pony and trap

Being told true and tall stories, by the man

Who had stepped out, and then stepped back

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Try to recollect or calculate

One afternoon

Yes one

Among

More than

Twenty-five-thousand

On the waterfront

Waiting for the ferry

Taking tea and burnt cake

In the lady from Vienna’s café

One afternoon

Yes one

Among

Less than

Twenty-thousand

The math is difficult

One life to the next

Waiting for forgiveness

As I read the text

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Flow

Holding together

For fear

Of falling apart

Old shoes of leather

With insoles

For making a new start

Witness the heather

Under blue skies

To practice the art

Doubtful as ever

Yet released here

To play the part

Way less than clever

The solitude

Stays in the cart

Now and then and forever

Reconciled

Only the truth to impart

That this time

Is that of all time

Here alongside The River Dart

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