Other’s Words

A year of

Mental health came in

Easing out

With

Expectants leaving

What we expected

Was an exciting weekend

Quick fired words

In a tongue we had ———

A turbulent sea

Our friends no show

Not Yet Qualified

Regular practice

That’s what they said

Always, all of them

And to let go

Don’t hold on

That’s their message

But, as if to be expected

I rallied against them

Followed my own path

And look where it’s got me

At peace, at one

With salt thrown over my shoulder

Fragments 2

If I could just

Carmel by the sea

Austen by the sea

Astral projection

Always by the sea

Sit in

Fragments 1

Here or there

Somewhere

No you

I

You saw me

I—— —

Here in the village

So far away from England

A wood burning stove

Picking wild flowers

Spruce up the shrine

Biscuits so sweet

They

Aftermath

A low bed

In the Japanese style

In Wolverhampton of all places

Where their municipal gallery

Boasts a full size portrait

Of its regions most famous poet

Whose name I don’t remember

But google may tell you

I think it is by one William Strang

I saw it

On the very day

That I had my photograph taken

For my driving licence

I had a long beard

In the Russian Orthodox style

In Wolverhampton of all places

Where my work drew me

As just someone other

With little chance of fame

And an elsewhere that I forget