Stipple

The sound is muffled
The sound is made clear
The sliding door is shuffled
The volume becomes near

Brothers in Arms
My first compact disk
The hi-fi salesman’s charms
The Blue Nile, more of a risk

Here on the upstairs landing
Where the new white light
Questions the decorators standing
Was the paint he used quite right

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Done That

I had nothing else to think
The images kept on loading
So so close to the brink
Lust with love exploding

I had nothing else to think
The scents are out of the bottle
So so carefully, so subtly distinct
Skin is on skin, ready to topple

I had nothing else to think
The soulful music sways
So so pure, so sure in shocking pink
Beside her now he lays

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Been There

I had nowhere else to go
So far had been so so sufficient
The emblems, still there on show
Resembled the secretive coefficients

I had nowhere else to go
So near had been so so loquacious
The saxophones still there did blow
Had I ever, in truth, been precocious

I had nowhere else to go
So involved had been so so magnifique
The emotions still there did throw
A curved, curved ball, within a fit of pique

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Lattice Work

Strip, after fine strip, of moulder’s clay
Laid, layer upon layer
Over the rounded pebble
Over the old balls of rock

Love upon love of love
Laid bare upon bare
Over the smooth soft skin
Over the nubile bodies

Time after time of time
Laid moment by moment by moment
Over a breeze of precocious preciousness
Over the waking of the still to be woken hearts

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Arvon

More than one week on
How soon memories fade
Laid on the single bed
When all to do was write
Then read, write; speak
About that which was written

Smitten by the performance
In the pure light of play
Stay with the words, let
The rays shine on your first sight
Crumple up the sheets
Ruffle the pillow cases too

Take what you can
At best instil
Remember the time
When a half pint
Was known as a gill

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