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Tuesday 30 September 2014

Fragments

Net curtains
Diffused sodium light

Open windows
Rumble by road-noise

Four shadowed walls
Unlocked doors

Knocked on 
By night-time security

The eleven-fifteen
To Kings Cross

Rattles its accompaniment
To bright eyes

With uninterruptible
Index fingers 


Monday 29 September 2014

Sunday 28 September 2014

Chapel Poem

Two chairs, side by side
By the fire extinguisher
Shadows of calm foreboding

Footsteps all outside
Breath of breath my only music
Percolates the present’s presence

He stands in the doorway
With cigarette and mobile phone
She is further away
He remonstrates
It is a one way conversation

We don't do that confession stuff
Otherwise I would happily
Share a chair with you
Sit and talk, you know
Side by side

Welcome my brother
Please share my stillness
This is one cool place
On one warm day


Saturday 27 September 2014

Other Lights

Trees of bronze, fields of gold
Skies of blue, but turning cold
In my heart and in my voice
Seeking out the other choice

For my love and I we are caught
Life of work with families fraught
All the pains past teenage angst
Lets cut our losses & sail to France

Buy the gite and start to dance

Yet in truth we know we're tied
Fanciful times of love we cried
So smell the coffee & tie the lace
It’s off to work, we're on the case


Friday 26 September 2014

Adversarial

Trouble says to turn away
Trouble turns another day
Half a life lived in your head
Halfway there and almost dead
Seems your troubles here to stay

All you know you know it well
Know it all but naught to tell
Count to ten and pause your lip
Take the time, kiss fingertips
Find the path where freedom fell

Listen, to the words you don’t
Want to hear; hear, the painful
Words and hear them clear
Formed by love, powered with care
Your life alone they dare to share