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Wednesday, 20 August 2025

Whatever the cause think on; love binds

A twenty mile view

Tunnels

Through mountains into forests


Burnt out

Charcoal stains, remains of timber houses

With no regret, repercussion or remorse


Except that is

To be near, in a nearby vicinity

A railway siding beside his first and only love


Change

Born of caring, turned into sacrificial conviction

Pressed deep; within the memories of inequality and injustice


The view now without any distance

Funnelled

Through molehills, there always without a florist


Learn, oh please my love

Once again, that life embraced with love

It is she, or he who stops and stoops for one to conquer


Go there then

That is not with a revolver, or as a revolutionary stunt

But with open hand, please take along your once innocent heart



Tuesday, 19 August 2025

A search without end

Unconvicted youth

Look again into your eyes

Counter revolution

The poet seldom pries


Tears for all lost ledgers

But you know; every day 

How easily, outwardly

You gave your world away


Warning words

Echoed fine conversations

All too good

Even to be untrue


Younger older man

Bent double

You struggle

Down and through the tram


Wires splash

The flash

Of disconnection

Reconnects, but do not let them



Monday, 18 August 2025

I drive across the tracks most mornings

Lara

To my thoughts of Zima Junction

Beauty of steam trains

Across your snow covered country


Here

A thousand miles

And umpteen revolutions

Passed by in the broadsheet papers


Our beauty rolls more gentle

Up and down the Wolds

Could you come over on Sunday

For a cake and tea


Lara, this is not your name now

No more than this is Sudbrooke Crossing

Yet love it is still she who reigns

Across your smile covered eyes



Sunday, 17 August 2025

Consideration for an older man

One frosted window

One breath of fresh blown air

Care there within you

A most

Neo-non-revolutionary stare


Love

Given and never forbidden within you

Unfair

The prayer to bring you

For soldiers and sly ones to care


Gentle gentleness

Tender in your every touch

You dare

To be your own one person

Stand tall, always, everywhere


Time changes

And you easily explain

Without attack, forgiveness even

That the most wilful act

Taken so that we cannot, can not, go back



Saturday, 16 August 2025

Out into the white light and the deeper snow

You knew

It was there within you

Cross transference

Of the frosted window view


Blown across a country

Caught up in a revolutionary tale

Young poet, young doctor

Life set out to sail


Now, in a later year

We would

If we could

Slow you down


Take our time, take your time

To join you more completely

Share all then and more

Of all of that majesty which you owned