Interlaced

Will it always be thus

You in your turquoise top

Every time I browse a map

Just off the aeroplane

Memories are to rush in

In the deserted rowing boat

Reasons to avoid a return

On the starlit country estate

However innocent the motive

Into the taxi, out of the rain

That a part of me needs to exclude

Against the British Museum radiator

Refuses to deal with the truth

Take our birthday seats in the theatre 

Prefers the delusions of youth

Drive all night, move closer together

Evades that time before this time

Dine in the restaurant by the quay

Those other times with other stories

Spread out on the sands and dunes

If I returned alone I could wallow

Walk barefoot at the waters edge

Write down a set of words

Watch Shakespeare at midnight

Of personal indefatigable thoughts

Ice cream at the sunset beach cafe

Gifts of guilt and exuberance

Open walks to Dartmoor's Tors

On the shifts of unsettled sands

Hand-held total eclipse of the sun

If I returned, with you or another

To the late night Battle of Flowers

I would have to steal away, as for

Nude bathing in Fuerteventura

Sneak out to let in the experiences

Trains through the Somerset Levels

Sneak in to let out the experiences

Of the past regurgitate, boil away

Stood outside Cornwall's Tate gallery

Inside my intrepid deceitful head, taking

Off from all those Jersey bound airports

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A to B

Place names 

Shine out

As if called

By times longest lived emotion

Human games

Find doubt

Dice rolled

With signs of highest devotion

Shame faced

Dull shout

Smile stalled

Lost rhymes of quiet commotion

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Dorchester

Between the airport

& the bachelor flat

“Would you care to call here

It's a while before we will be back”

Overjoyed at how you liked the space

& how this band of Old England 

So well & truly suited you

We could have stayed longer

We could have stayed over

Except that your excitement

To be at my place, lustful

Your desire grew and grew

Between the blue door and the bedsit

It wouldn't have worked if I'd stayed

“Should you care ever to call here

It'd bring a smile on, she said, looking back”

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Haze

Sunlight lightens the mood

Empowers the spirit

To reach into the positive arena

Of the reflective self

To why we are here

Where we are going

The warm sun cares not a jot

Without the cache of despair

The ball of endless fire is able

To enliven us as any goddess

That the summer will bring blossom

To the Laburnum is without doubt

Yet the tree knows nought of this

So we sentients choose to believe

Whether our own minuscule plans

Our intricate preparations take affect

Do we have the need to care

Instead let us be, as the sunlight

Free off our traps; flare

Walk tall in our uncertainty

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Side by Side

To sit beside you

With sunlight, or rain

At the window

Not to be

On nights away

Summer or winter

That peace waits

For loves return

Is ever welcome

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