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Thursday, 11 January 2024

Open doors, misheard words

You almost entered the room

Your glance, truly you quite caught me

Earlier; and not for the first time

You asked: did I need some space


This word, then

This collection of words

A soliloquy, a pleasance

A submission to somewhere unknown


Walks alone, in only our own passages

Tunnels; churchyards and shipbuilder’s sheds

Here is where you have sent me

You simply handed over the key


I opened the door, this time without fear

The old hinges, the cold steel

I feel no more their reign

Faint their memory, now fairly fading


You

You almost enter the room

I turn

I know now, I turned away too soon




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Wednesday, 10 January 2024

Unjust; a walk in the park

I eke out a poem

For a future reading

A few moments pleasure


Misleading

A few years hence

Remembered treasure


Butterflies

Feathers in the garden

The first August of the summer


Friends

Who now have travelled

Upwards and onwards


Cleaning out

Clearing out

All of your ghostly cobwebs


Glorious Goodwood

With Frankie Dettori’s Ouija Board

A winner for almost all, and for you


The firmest of firm favourites

To win by just the upturn

Of an upturned nose


On the statue

Did you hear the soldier's

Unfortunate cheer


A few moments before

He'd shouted Delores

As the night’s ways mused on




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Tuesday, 9 January 2024

Untied

Did I tell you

What was in my mind

I often do that now

I never did before


It's swell

That you brush my back

On the odd occasion

Never done before


Truth to tell

No need to sell

You've sold me now

I was never sold before


My empty shell

Down stairways fell

The open door

Unopened before


Did I tell you, no

So, let me then

Tell you now

I never did before


My love untied

Someway, somehow



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Monday, 8 January 2024

Do I wish to be here anyway

Already today

You have been all around the world

Only to land

Right back here again and writing


Postcards from the Seychelles

Poets and tattooists from New Zealand

Already today you've been

All over the world


Spaces, retreats from places

Empty faces

Traces of characters

To mull and muse upon


This land, your own armchair

Your own clutch pencil

Already today; balloons and garden mowers

In your garden, in your home


Ownership, even of your own thoughts

Are free then of freehold

All around the world

Sat under the tree



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Sunday, 7 January 2024

The widest corridors in the world

Both hands

On each others

Bare shoulders

Warm skin


Words

To make me cry

I tell you of my poem

My dream


All possible connections

Whatever

That they mean

Happy times


Hopeful times

Softness

Stipple scented sweet surrender

Eyes that smile


Reflect

The smiled on eyes

We land

A good way before December


Our carrier bags

Outside

In the stillness 

The calmness of the night



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