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Thursday, 18 September 2025

Just on ready for the taking

Fields of misinterpretation

Local girls on Friday nights

In the cell, mute

Without of words for explanation

A long long way

To where they might


Integrated and dysfunctional

Gives a purpose for those who care

The builders of the bridges

The even handed, with prejudice

Subsumed, doomed, laid bare


Somewhere else

The girl and boy both take

A beating, meeting once or more

Outside an agreed arrangement

Only love the curse they shake


Pick me up

Scrape that lousy last potato

OK I may have misled you

But hey

We'd had a drink

And you looked just on ready for the taking



Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Social development

Seven shadows of gladness

Imaginations as the cymbal trims

Mad and bad

Turn the vibration on

The concrete skims


High rise flats

And low rent houses

Roundabouts society slims

Why would you care

Until you yourself were there



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