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Tuesday 5 August 2014

Half-Beat

Slow down, almost to a stop
No please, keep walking
Kick the pebble, with nonchalance
From the tar-macadam pavement
Onto the miserable dried-out grass verge




Monday 4 August 2014

Duty Free

Polished tiles bounce the silence
Amplify & amplify again
The still sounds of nothing

Except the smile
Of the small boys excitement
As his father
Shows him the big aeroplanes


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Sunday 3 August 2014

Out of Sun

Pebbles picked
Picked & inspected
By the young woman
In azure-blue bikini

Pebbles picked
Picked & inspected
As though all of life itself
Had been washed ashore

Easy to be romantic
Blue sky, gentle waves
Reflected warmth, from
Worn-away sandstone pillars

In the speedboats jet-stream
Hang the plumes of destiny
A race of sorts
From here to there, or thereabouts

One deep and final breath
Beneath the Faberge shade
Negligence would be, would it not
To be unfaithful to beauty & love


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Saturday 2 August 2014

Ocean

As you edge in
You also edge out
Take steady steps
To gather a focus


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Friday 1 August 2014

Shaded Steps

Many times before & once again
Sky blue, blue white
Deepest blue
An ink line of horizon

Lesser blues, on their way
To the fond greens of the Atlantic Ocean
Past the canary yellow buoys
& the purer whites of the speedboats

Which momentarily create a spray
Whose colour is no more
Than the colour of clear water
Blasted into suspension


This poem is from the collection