Suitcase

Lindens in that place above and below

Shared by earth and sky

Sapling by sapling with the Rowans

Set back, or rather set forth of the Weeping Willow

Born of timeless barks shadows, upon the Silver Birch

Would that these definitive species

Say something equal of me

As with your butterfly

That entered on the waft 

Of summers midday breeze

Tea, served on a companions tray

New friendships begin

Host and traveller

An overnight guest; we walk a parkland walk

Soft talk, dreams blended with meditations

Back at the piano, Satie's Gymnopedie plays

Pages turn on the endlessly symmetrical score

Gardens with lilacs, roses in bloom

Iced Martini, lemonade too, brimming over

Conversations; preparation for the after dark

A meal of suggestive spices, delicately laced

At table set, with wine, in impeccable taste

The best of clothes, perfume chosen

More than to say hello, before candlelight casts shadows

Onto that place where only our shadows are allowed to go

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Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo

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Heaviness of Light

I send you this splash of wave
Ask only that your letter distills the droplets found
Deep of sound unbound within
Make pure gin of the hope and the hip-hip hooray
You are coming to stay, if I am to have my way

I send you this chaos theory of a rectangular box
Ask that your fractals are light beams to bounce
Pronounced to climb and creep within
May pebbles skim on the pond like sea-swells
To tell of sands & play, dare that we share one day

Gifts from a time with time to contemplate
It is late, later somehow in the dark lined room
With the music of Anouar Brahem on the waves
Caves of grave generations without and within
May the perimeter of string pray to defeat delay

Travel with the fairies, dance with the fey
Only in our profound isolation
May my imaginations venture and climb
Soak up the rhythms; redefine denial, of that long
That long last loss, that one long lost loss of longing resign

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Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo

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Purple Sage

Twisted, two obligations

Various considerations listed

Insistent, feel the lost thoughts lost again

Abstain, you are tied to, lie as to self the same

Upside, downside, cushioned comfort field or frame

Lain with those extrapolated and pilloried stains

Regain a mind at once so clear, free of fear

No more of Baudelaire or Stenigot, not now

Not then, no paradise of shock, no lock of hair

As silk slipped frost, all cost subscribed fulfilled

Drilled into safe emotive cells, wellbeing that dwells

On the printed page, that tells of itself’s own story

Through the spoken word, so absurd

No reader, no listener, no viewer, no friend, no word

From the past or the future, only the untold echoes

Reverberations that you heard but could not put

To a time or place, as if the race and the line, the

Call of mine, mine, mine; sublime in it's truth

Dutiful youth to wayward...

Struth how might you hold on to this

Old stories been and gone, levitations and escapologists

On the silver screen, what do we mean

What do we mean, what do we mean

It seemed straightforwards, to tell of hurt 

In that the void of breath, or blood should

Be so impossible to state, unable to relate

As flowers wilt and waters dry, as passions rise

Their chosen time closed to cry try, try, try

Let her go, let it die, say no more, be so fly

As to tell it never mattered, may you scatter

Letters, sounds, utterances, the found remnants

Of lust and love, to be trusted by expense accounts

Recompense to follow old and trusted paths

Last laugh and all that; crap, you never said

Dead until death us do part, let's start again

The day of it, the all but forgotten Zane Grey of it

The absolute pure flight and foreplay of life

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Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo

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Boxed Out

Sailing on the seven seas

All in smile with sails to breeze

Happiness my heart to seize

Lay me down by swayed palm trees

Loison’s Pandora takes her leave

Time to dance, time indeed

Raise the flags and plant the seeds

Skies of blue no cloud or creed

We have the willow, we have the reed

Tales unfold our stories weave

Love my love to fair receive

Sun and shores I do believe

A fine fair way to end the grief

Closure now for souls own thief

Space to play in sound relief

Say goodbye, our time so brief

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Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo

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Listening to Michelangelo

Into the wind

On sand, beside water

Sunrise, sunset, northern star

Bereft of ties

Minds work all to keep me

As if to walk into the desert

To plant the cactus

Lines drawn, portraits painted

Carvings made in lime and oak

Preserve the distance

Insulate from the pull of skin

Rhythms, vibrations

Drumbeats of the forest

Evolve to a slower pace

Care to jot down the ice effects

Let the love that entered re-enter

Warm thoughts fully felt

Smelted by the sun up sun

Out of the wind

Away from dereliction

Ache for the escape you ache from

Escape from the ache you escape for

Talk of sweet dreams

Send your love and kisses

Tell soft stories

Ease out the easy words

Mountain streams

And wishing wells

Rainstorms and taxi cabs

Intoxications & fascinations

Down the telegraph wires

Of immense immutable truth

Touch it once, taste it once

Care not for incommunicado

Cavort as only

Imaginary friends may cavort

Become the goddess and the giant

Be drawn along the star-line

And the devil’s causeway

Ache for the love that loves to ache

Ache with the love that aches to love

She walks in, he watches

How to say hello

Fired with lust

Lord let it be love

Stay calm, appear neat and cool

Boy I could be there

Throwaway words thrown away

Ghastly gestures gestured

Fool, fool, fool

Find yourself, be yourself

Open your defences, become vulnerable

Love is what love is

Care for her care

Thank heaven for words and voice

Place your arm on her shoulder

Lend her your leather coat

Be fascinated by her fascination

Be intoxicated by her intoxications

Dance as you ached to dance

Ache as you dance the dance that aches

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Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo

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