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Thursday, 31 July 2025

IKEA or Habitat

He acts daft

She calls him the fool

His roundedness confounds

What on earth is she to do

Yet; or so it appears to me

They are a close together two


There though

Listen to the bitterness

The taste

Of apricot and grapefruit

The unbridled sourness, astounded

By her voice


Spitting tacks

Littered

With such observations

Do they ever have a choice


The wickedness

Piled on

So many years of wanting and waiting

Sticks and stones

And who knows

Even maybe broken bones

Piled on

So many years of waiting and wanting


This is Monday, in the morning

They, they are one of the first customers

At this store to make your house a home

I am here, alone, although not lonely

But still I wonder

What makes for a wonderful life

What is it that makes for such a wonderful life



Wednesday, 30 July 2025

Nostalgia no more to need

Now and in my time I see

The shadows ever stronger

In the sunlight the darkness strays longer

Towards the far away night


Sat, at this four legged table

On a four legged, wooden chair

By the window with daylight beaming

Why not write of that I dare to care


Mickie Most and Mighty Marvel

The Hotspur; for the true blue, soccer dude

Cavalcades then move off to the carnival

To find the stuff which would turn my mood


It seems that dragons they do have dungeons

As also kestrels hover when in flight

And the dolphin by the bays edge

In the early evening, their sight holds me tight


Now and in the time when I am me

The shadow burns my fear of deceit

I am stronger in the sunlight

In the time, that, I am meant to be



Tuesday, 29 July 2025

Where do you go to my doubting

Feel the tension flee

The cool sensation of being you

Now and in the times to see

The poet is to step on through


Wander in meadows, sit fast at kitchen tables, time passed

In faint but fair sunlight the dew is on the grass

And the misfit

He hits out for home at last


From the past into the present

Scent of mulberry and blue

On the plains and corn exchange crescents

The bookshops bring their pleasure do


With reflection of the morning

Past the dark time in to night

For the sleep and the dreams there dawning

Once again to lean beyond our own we might


Say then our prayers from the Hopkins bible

See again The Windhover in flight

Clasp our dreams with the now of Zen insight

Here the words:


Stumbles of sounds be gentle

Let us go there in deep delight



Monday, 28 July 2025

Travels with truth

From darkness into light, enter morning after night

Sunshine in September before the autumn rains

Dark times may develop through the daytime

Without good posture, their goes the cloak of pain


In the forest of the mighty oak we care

Beware those heavy raindrops

The loafer or the lugubrious

He lies there in his lair


Think back on the pagan years

To the minstrels and the roustabouts

To the dark days of late summer

Before the winter fights we fear


From light into darkness enters evening after noon

Dark time back in grey September

When, just as before my silver moon

Now in gloom she entered my sitting room


Dark time, not now though for to remember

Always and forever to lend her

That the light shall rise again from the embers

Of that long and cold December



Sunday, 27 July 2025

Only for your own eyes

Close your eyes

Clothe them

In September’s sun


In flower power

Paisley patterns

Let your mind wander and run


Doze there in daydreams

Arose to touch the precipice

And walk along the paths of joy


Close your eyes

Who knows what thoughts

Therein have been strung


Instead we rest

In now it is the how we vest

Of times so far unsung


Chosen there in maybe’s

Or exposed

To a different drum


Who glows; oh now so

That we may mean

The setting of the simpler sun