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Wednesday 19 July 2023

Raison d'ĂȘtre

Would it matter

If I wrote the memoir

Of a life

With failed relationships


Could it help

Anyone

Could it

Help me


Why then to think

Where and how

Things went right

Or things went wrong


For isn’t there always

A beginning

A middle

And an end


In which case

I will have at least

Twelve stories

Or possibly more


And what about you

That is all of you

Who wish

To have your say



Tuesday 18 July 2023

Out and about

Hagworthingham

Is this the end

Of winter as we’ve known it


It is quiet now

The sky is blue

The Green is green


Soon there will be new tasks

Leaves to rake

Grass to cut


Pathways to tread



Monday 17 July 2023

Reductionism

Where to go next

That is my question

Is AI poetry

The road to follow


You have to forgive

So where to start

Who to unify

With the first words


Take a walk

Think it through

Remember to name

The soul under review


I set off to walk

But found a café

With all-day breakfast

And Bakewell Tart


Where I am is where I am

Also where I want to be

Where I go to is where I go

Also where I want to



Sunday 16 July 2023

On top of salt water

It feels wonderful

To do nothing

On a day

When there’s nothing to do


Among days and days

Of there being

Nothing to do

Oh how wonderful


Then to think of love

In such a way

That only one who has known

The love of being in love can


That one might even write

Of that warm flotation tank

Where one bathed

Deeply aware of a lover’s love



Saturday 15 July 2023

Complacent

Each time we meet

You bring something else

To beat me with

I can’t take much more

I do have to tell you