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Saturday, 8 June 2024

Setting simple preparations

Distraction; rise early in the morning

Without outward conversation

Conversing in silence, in prayer

Minds in a meditative clean slate state

Washed by our own meandering

Centred, entering nothingness, not loss


Making space for some other, another’s message

Making space for some other, another’s invitation

Making space and ambiance to surround you

Clear mind for to think, think clear thoughts through

Think without sinking down to the inner depths

Or climbing false escalations, or wieldy expectations

Setting simple preparations


To raise a tide on an even keel

Not stealing another’s visualisations

Except for some that share the cross

But it does’t need to be religions

And it does not necessarily mean faith

What it is that I am after

Is not to be led, not led nor fed, by distraction


To derive salvation, discovering inner satisfaction

From doubt without to an inner clarity of vision

A lucidity returning, thoughts thought that I’d lost

Brooding for another’s group I’m now removing

Wood shedding this blessing I’m smoothly grooving

How, you know, watch me let my best friend grow

How, let my friend remember, let go, for to grow



Friday, 7 June 2024

Stranded for the summer

An island in the summer

Sons of summer’s sun

A beach, way down from my land


Down for the summer

An island in the summer

Your island’s downs, astound throughout the summer


Your island, save for your son

It is your summer’s summer

You’re my island, you are my island for the summer


My island is yours, our island for the summer

Sand washed, sun dyed

Dried out island for the summer


Bleach blonde, beach bombs

Plundered the summer’s summer

Blonde on blonde, beach bombs


Blondes for your summer

Your blonde beach bombs

Blondes play on


Through the summer’s summer

Oh my our sweet not sour, island summer

Sun dried, bleach dyed, blonde eyes


Crying out for the summer

Blondes lied, beaches tried, tied up for the summer

Tie dyed, bleary eyed


Plied up, belied for the summer

Island wide, eyelids slide

Cried up for the summer


Turning tides, island rides

All supplied, all are up for the summer

Ride away, we planned to stay


Stray away, for the summer

Dreams stranded on the sand

Stranded for another summer




Thursday, 6 June 2024

Arnold

Arnold

Pen strokes awake to smoke drifting far away

Smoke over mountain passes

Staining plains bought with molasses

Awake to stoke the boilers for to cruise


Arnold

Losing skilful classes, evening study, lads and lasses

Turning thoughts from study days to discotheques

Biblioteques for the masses

Clues that cruise among the shuffling stiletto shoes


Arnold

Choosing or being chosen

Stealing or being broken

Your words are my words spoken

Your solitudes are the lines I’ve chosen


Arnold

Opening and closing, in between a depth of reason

A season writing without love or muse to guide you

Ships across continents, sun and moon survive you

Choke, poke the cinders; one last fire, beside you


Arnold

Before the dark side, over away an swoon

Centuries apart, loves lost lying lonesome

Walking some solitary path from madness

Crazy diamond, life giving island, reflected moon



Wednesday, 5 June 2024

Consigned to reflective sociology

Brickyard stacks, fired by old coal slack

Cracks for through to wander

Chimneyed yards, prison guards, no turning back

Closed doors, wardens to close the conscience

Over out over the courtyard, marching unconscious

Prepare to sleep, to keep reaping their subconscious

Consigned, resigned to reflective sociology

Rote, rote together rote, rote on into my mythology

Stealing out over the exercise yard

Escape routes for to ponder longer




Tuesday, 4 June 2024

Consigned to cognitive psychology

Staring out over, over waves for to wander

No turning back, nowhere is the space behind

Closed eyes, unable to close the subconscious

Staring out over sleep’s depraved unconscious

Evading sleep, risks run to keep

Creep to keep, to keep a clear conscience

Consigned, resigned to cognitive psychology

Theory, practice, hypothesis, group therapy

Mind my mythology

Staring out over, over waves

Over waves for to ponder, longer