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Tuesday, 20 January 2026

Narcissism

I write of you

I think of me

I see you

I see another side of me


I talk of the reflection in your eyes

What is it there that I see

I talk of your words whispered to me

What is it there that I hear


In the distance of my imagination

What there am I to imagine

In the first instance of my fascination

Why then am I so facile


In the beauty of you beside me

I gather a smile

I think of you

I write of me



Monday, 19 January 2026

Water and wind

Over a bridge

Of still tumbling water

Over the sea

Of tipsy topsy tranquillity


Clouds on horizons

Of beautiful visions

Shrouds in the sky

Try their best to fly



Sunday, 18 January 2026

Quiet

On the edge of everyday beauty

Seen through the tree at the end of its leaf

See your smile, an endless beauty

On your face; here for all of time in sans serif


Blues and greys and golden silvers

A backcloth to the silhouettes of youth

Back again in bud by springtime

The bloom of you in boundless truth


Still the skies on Monday mornings

Factories have died to far off plans

Arise my man in deep mid winter

Think again of summer’s strands


See your smile, still in wonder

Games to play with strings and band



Saturday, 17 January 2026

Spring tides

Lover's talk of love at midnight

A far off hope of golden sand

Hand in hand in love at midnight

The golden talk of soft blown land


Stroke the neck nape in the moonlight

Walk on by the gold brass band

Soft skins touched by all by moonlight

Hand in hand on bandstand land


Lover's hope of snow capped mountains

Of plains and deserts themselves to stand

Hand in hand there by the fountain

With their dreams immense and grand


Stroke the clock

On past the midnight’s glow

In the silver moonlit mountains

Shadowlands so so seldom show



Friday, 16 January 2026

Acoustic

Confined to words on polished paper

Inclined the statement then to fake her

Any words, about any trees

Anything to think of me


A new rose in late December

The frost froze back a week or two

The parcel post and letters lent her

A short respite from nothing new


Fingers pick the stringed guitars

Fingers which don't reach to the stars

A new quiet then to fend her skin

From the embers of her tethered din


Inclined to find a hill top turning

Horizons prised from treeless leaves