Distant Games

Listening to the cricket

England aiming to reach the semi-finals

Grey skies in the United Kingdom

But sunlight fills our hearts

The final leaves fall

As only the final leaves are able

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Revesby 2

The cricket nets

Have been pulled off

To the side of the pitch

Boy there’s been some downpours today

But not in Brisbane, Australia

Where England defeated New Zealand

To head back up the super 12 group 1

After that debacle with Ireland in the rain

If they weren’t so far away

It could be your boys coming to the wicket

To become heroes for the country on this day

When jet aircraft are grounded for remembrance

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Bank

The Sheveling Wine Estate

Black Americano and Creme Brûlée

Yes, here at the top of the Holme Valley

Overlooking the vineyard on the hillside

There appears to be a problem allocating tables

Although I am sat by a window

It seems that the computer is at fault

Its algorithm’s being somewhat inflexible

I never knew quite so many romantics

Frequented the Holmfirth region

Not at least since Last of the Summer Wine

Brought tears to our visitor’s eyes

I myself, once the mid-life crisis lover

Wrote a levelling up letter, on the moor

Sat by a dry-stone summer’s wall

Where a butterfly kept me company

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What’s in a name

Law Common Road

On the way

To Cartworth Moor

Past the heather clad

Lands of the reservoir

Past the heathen led

Shooting grounds

Law Common Road

What does it mean

Is it a law

Which marks this as the way

To common ground

Not a place

To be shot at

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Infused With Love

Into the imaginary

As if the elbow on the knee

Would help the thoughts

To first bring the smile

Followed by a beautiful stirring

Of the heart

The spirit and the soul

How many have fallen away

How many have stayed the course

Yet this one room; home

As it will have been called before

Away from the imagination

As if the balls of the feet

Would follow the pathway

To first say thanks for the smile

Followed by beauty recurring

In the soul

The spirit and the heart

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