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Tuesday, 16 September 2025

A musician's kind of life

Stillness in your rhythm

Your engaged smile shares your past

Provision


Tonight you sing your song to say goodbye

As you will tomorrow, as you did yesterday

As you may as well forever


Stillness is in your eyes

Your blue and purple fingers

They cast your fast precision


Stillness in your skin

Your leather wrinkled baggage

A chorus of the life within


Tonight you sing your song to say goodbye

As you will tomorrow, as you did yesterday

As you may, if, as for Ibrahim, you say forever



Monday, 15 September 2025

Love

All the strains to chains of loss

You remain

The sane refrain, at such a cost


Only ten thousand hours or more

Incredible

To conjure up such a score


Of dark nights, comedies, and tragedies

The poetry, the music

The fall of past civilisations


When all that I had to say

In near or far history

Seven stories; and all of them of love



Sunday, 14 September 2025

Archway

Semi tone

The sepia bone

Is still at last


The epigraph

Chromatic in mask

Sails for home

Sails for home


Beside the wholesome weather

Held together by clouds

And thunderous winds


The epitaph

Negative to task

Sails for home

Sails for home



Saturday, 13 September 2025

Gone fishing

Constructs

Everyone makes them

Tear ducts

Dried now and forever always


First

Thump before forsaken

Struggled hugs

Unknowing, awakened


It's what you want, or so you say

But what I want to know

Is how do you know

What you want, just how long is your list


If it's not broken

Then don't fix it

But; what if it is

Broken


Even now you smile

How deep must be your memory

Or in sleep

How easily you forgive



Friday, 12 September 2025

Always more

Never

Is ever enough

Forever

Still needs some stuff


Archimedes

Pythagoras

Blunt and Blair


Does it matter

What they wear

Or even

If they care


Water

Into wine

Frosted pines

To share


Clever

Is never enough

Whenever

You call my bluff