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Sunday, 28 January 2024

I asked the way and this was her reply

So this is how I see the inside

With one eye on the second chance

Think on of the good stuff

The greens, the rye, the chicory, the tea


Displace the alcohol, the tablets

And the mean streak of self-inclusion

The confused latent mind needs to re-engage

To find a point from where to begin


To find its own clean sheet of paper

Its own still wilderness to walk in

At the fresh time of dawn, barefoot

On the dewdrops, under the last of the stars


Listen to the bloods circulation

Feel the tingle; the numb spots, the cringe

Of closed veins, there like the potholer caught

In the deepest darkest cavern


As the oversized trout slides down

The hungry heron's throat; gulp, catch

Another breath, it's far too soon

To even think of letting go



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Saturday, 27 January 2024

This one's a song so sing it

I quite specifically

Made time for you and me

I waited patiently

For the anniversary of our love


In my mind so certainly

I see you sailing free

Indeterminately

Among the sparkling sea of our love


That night we talked till ten

That night remember when

Your arms around me meant

The subtle scent of our love


I quite specifically

For sure so certainly

Made time for you and me

No doubt to see the memory of our love


Still tight we walked again

That night September sent

The lamp posts and verandah's leant

All aboard the firmament of our love


My mind meanders when

I try to think again

The rain and sun light vent

Summer festivals in the tent


Hold on to the all of our love

In times return to sender sent

Your letters back to me

For sure uncertainly


You had gone away

Stayed beyond the day

Laid so far away

Of our love


I quite specifically made time for you and me

I rang around the anniversary

Sold tears to set the soldier free

He never ever would be me


So quite specifically

My cry was easily

So certainly

Always of our love



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Friday, 26 January 2024

Barefoot over cold concrete flags

I've almost forgotten how to do this

It's been a few days away

Tied up with other observations

Broken down tractors and the like


And anyway this pamphlet is itself

Close to the final page

Closure of a point in time

An age almost done


I sit outside in the garden

Wipe the sleep from my eye



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Thursday, 25 January 2024

This time it is not yet time to go

I move in all manner of directions

Restless some might say

Anyway

You lay in the sun, it's what you do


Not of course

That I wouldn't turn my hand

To footsteps in the sand

And champagne, uncorked


The other day

I heard the strains of Mantovani; Blue Moon

From a further room

Anyhow I must go now, the honeymoon is over


And yet

Our time together has not even begun

We've many more adventures

Laughter and kisses to share


The words are only pretence

Only here do I dare

To talk of a time

Without you



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Wednesday, 24 January 2024

A struggle to say anything at all

They were sweet and simple words

No more than to say

Just that he brought all around to tears

By simply saying

How lucky he was to be in love

I cried then, and tears again yesterday

When I re-wrote the memory


What is it?

Am I so soft

That a few words

Can turn me over

So should I now

Begin to eat more substantially

Go and fill out my ignominious frame

For a later-on-in-life reading


You see

This is not a picture

Not a painting

Or a photograph

Where then

Am I to place

The displaced teardrops



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