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Friday 13 January 2023

None of these I’ve done

Holy be

Uncertainty

What on earth

Came over me


Listen to another

Converse with your mother

Rub shoulders with your brother

None of these I’ve done


Would it be too much trouble

Double back and shave the stubble

Start anew our efforts to redouble

What I knew so very little of


The soft flicker of firelight 

Toys afloat on bath night

Stories read of prayers in flight

Where on earth as it led


Then not so self-inspired

You alone retired

Left the love once desired

To ask so so many questions



Throw more slack on the boiler

No matter the cloak of fur

You truly cannot spoil her

She’s polished up real class


Bunting and flags

Rich red velvet rags

The huntsmen on the nags

Filled with full-on brandy


Lords, ladies and sly serfs

Servants, cooks and jobs-worth

We won the war on and off the turf

Now let’s go get randy


We’ve stabled the horse

Closed the door of course

But lest we bolt away in remorse

Let’s talk, of love once more


Holy be

Its uncertainty

Now he wants to talk of love to me

None of these I’ve done



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Thursday 12 January 2023

I keep and try

I stroke your letters

Your painted toenail hue


I mull over

Your scarlet silver blue


I imagine your thigh

Your touch a little further through


I reassemble your ankle

To fit the boot or shoe


I attend all of the lectures

Hoping for a mirage of you


I catch your eye

Your picture on my wall


I weep and cry

Unable with fair heart to fall


I keep and try

Your memos filed to call


I travel far away

With your love’s wherewithal


To ignominiously

Stumble and stall



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Wednesday 11 January 2023

Your love was laid wide open

I see

From

Your letters

A time


When

Your love

Was laid

Wide open


Such happiness

Such fun

Such warmth

Such creativity


You had

Your health again

You thanked me

For the flowers


You kept

Irregular hours

Your love

Was laid wide open


But not so

Clear to see

How this

Fragility


Became bound

In complicit

Intellectual

Infidelity



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Tuesday 10 January 2023

Too much love

The ruby red vessel

The brandy glass curve

Lips and hips

Shaped without worry


This is a love story

Two lovers

Separated by

Too much love


The silken smile

A face formed classic

A gentle tear

Sense of vulnerability


Love stories endure

These lovers are lost

Lost

In too much love



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Monday 9 January 2023

Inside the cardboard box

Now that you have all that space

I guess that you will want to fill it

My new space is a much smaller place

But still with dreams I wish to instil it


Look back beyond the past

Inside the cardboard box

You that’s cast for life to last

Ploughed, furrowed, pulled by the ox


The photographs and late night notes

Advertisements for the theatre

Packed away, that was yesterday

How to explain, how did I mistreat her


That solemn vow, maybe now

Would be the time to ask

Momenta passed as slow time flashed

An untied knot of memories masked



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