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Friday, 3 May 2024

Another sort of touching

I was trying to remember

What it was like to fall in love

I was lying here looking

Ogling at that turquoise top

Staring at that flash of flesh, Gilgamesh

Was I confusing

Was I abusing

Abusing lust, lust with love


And then I remembered

Remembered that Sunday morning 

Flight lands and arrives, landing with nowhere to go

I was just in place, some place, anyplace

Wandering, in love, in love with a big grin


OK so we’d made love some time earlier

And that was some, that was some intoxication


Still, even with intoxication

This was some other sort of touching

Another sort of touching

Touching that caught

Caught, captured in rapture

On a rapturous Sunday morning


The purple haze had descended

My mended mind remembered

Every touch, every stroke

Every word we spoke

Spoke throughout the night

Spoke way on into the morning

Way on into the morning

And when we rose for the sunrise

To skip along the sands

In nothing more than our bare feet

Nothing more than our love

Our kissing

Kissing, kissing, sweet kissing sunrise


Sunrise that burnt off the hazy night descended

My mended mind remembered

Sitting by the ebb tide

Feeling for toes, toes toasting in the sunlight

Feeling another sort of touching

Another sort of touching


Was I touching

Was I touching love


Or is my memory fed

Bled 

Bled dry

Dry with lust

Not Love




Thursday, 2 May 2024

A funny sort of Therapy

A funny sort of therapy

Remember; rubbing pebbles from the beach

This time

It is all in the mind

A different kind of therapy

A full blame culture

Tearing like a vulture

Unloading every which way

Unloading each and every day

Unloading with no reprise, in full sway

Unloading without relent

Unloading cares away


A funny sort of therapy

Remember; we weren’t allowed to be alone

This time

Not trying to be kind

A different mind for therapy

Another game culture

Tear apart the vulture

Scolding, no pain withholding

Scolding, each day unfolding

Scolding, with no restraint for full to slay

Scolding without relent

Scolding cares away



Wednesday, 1 May 2024

Sacred events and sacraments

How to describe the path

Along the load less travelled

Caress the odd Hesse less journey

As it is, as it ever was


Sacred coals burnt, scorched

No more imaginary goals

From now on it’s sacred events and sacraments

It is, it is as it is, it is as it never was


Eye, seeing eye; eye, seeing

By being, by being by the day

There to say to be, and to be being

To cry, cry to the heavens and the skies


Me, my, oh me, oh my

My oh my

Me, why

Oh me, oh why




Tuesday, 30 April 2024

Oh sweet gentle morning

Oh sweet gentle morning

Oh sweet water flowing

Cross pastures and meadows

Sweet breezes blowing


Sun bright, clear sunlight is shining

Blue, blue sky, fresh breath is aligning

Oh sweet gentle morning

Oh sweet water flowing


Along by the seashore

Eating mackerel on rye

Over blue misty mountains

Under cool wispy fountains


Oh sweet gentle morning

Oh sweet water flowing

From Arizona to Egypt

The rock face and the delta


The air we are breathing

The clothes we are weaving

Oh sweet gentle morning

Oh sweet water flowing


In Piccadilly Circus

Over Wordsworth’s London bridge

The tourists are flocking

The Cafes and pavements are rocking


Oh sweet gentle morning

Oh sweet water flowing

The sculptures are fondled not fumbled

The galleries are wandered and wondered


Expressions of beauty

Of love and desire

Oh sweet gentle morning

Oh sweet water flowing


And now we’ll take tea

Our oat cakes by the fire

We’ll open the paper

Enjoy the magazine The Wire


Oh sweet gentle morning

Oh sweet water flowing




Monday, 29 April 2024

Wireless spokes

Lightness after loss

Hope after dark

Life after all


Unchained, free, freed

From inert confusion

Delusion dispersed


Lightness before daybreak

Sleep with dreams

Sleep in peace


Unchained, released restraint

From created capture

Rapture reneged


Lightness during dawn and dusk

Walking without shadows

Walking with angels


Unchained, clasps recycled

From twisted thoughts

And wireless spokes


Lightness under the sun

Lightness under the moon

Lightness, not a moment too soon