Blissfully Aware

Expectation

As if the day itself

Was part of a play

As opposed to one mind

Dictating events

Inclination

As if to wander

Was due to the joy

Found in unexpected places

Where time stood still

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Awareness

The page is blank

An open invitation

To begin the day lightly

With no overriding

Sense of purpose

Other than to enjoy

The beauty of being

The deliberate nature

Of breathing, of smiling

Of writing au revoir

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Thoughtfully experienced

I thought to go to Ely

To the stained glass museum

Instead, I stayed in Revesby

To smell the jet aircraft’s perfume

Also to watch the pilots

Coerce the birds from the sky

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Mid-day bar

Flash cars speeding by

Jet aircraft in the sky

If I had a cigarette

Now would be the perfect time

But I don’t

And I haven’t for seventeen years

Although it seems, or appears

To be considerably longer

Instead it is a bar of chocolate

With my diet Coke

And an Americano coffee

With these words that I write

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Boundaries

Part of his soul

Will always stay

With the cricket club

Yet my soul

Is not yet fully infused here

With the sound of bat on ball

Of course there was a time

In another place

Of a Saturday afternoon

And maybe, just maybe

I might relive

That most splendid experience

A ball leveraged through mid-off

Onto the seated terrace

Or clouted, over mid-on, into the river

But here the boundaries are land

Land and more land

To all four corners

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