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Friday 5 January 2024

Underneath the covers

On the edge of sleep

On the cusp of miscalculation

Warmest of places

Feelings of lasting contentment

Past loves

With new blood stirring


Close your eyes

Unbutton just a trouser

Drift away

Into some lust just full of oblivion

Some other spacious ecstasy


Tiredness; quietly there she takes you

Gives you a frizzle

Strands your hair

Upstanding, her hands

Are soft and warm



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Thursday 4 January 2024

Where did you say you put it

To be numb

Without movement

Caught awhile

Absent in your own mind


Unsung

Slowly moving

Dancing

Somewhere back in time


Spaces

Voids unopened

Fumbling

For another line


Piece together

A fresh

And first collection

Surely still, yet still sublime


Run

Right back into my arms

A cradled enclave

If to be so brave




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Wednesday 3 January 2024

Awake after a dream

All that is me

Are words on bits of paper


All that I have

Is love to hold you tight


All was undone

And then you held my hand



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Tuesday 2 January 2024

Songs; sat and sitting

Here I am

I listen to your northern songs

Your melancholic, mellow middle-age


I remember your catchy tunes

Your good year

For the roses


I send her picture postcards

Of past times from a while ago

When I bounced around


In brothel creepers

And skin tight, drainpipe

Sky blue jeans


Seems like only yesterday

How to have found

So so many memories


So so many places to linger

While you stroke

My hair, faced back



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Monday 1 January 2024

Photographs and voices

Rounded off post tops, twisted and twirled

Balustrades, fair places for the children

With fair hair


Sat with a smile

Beside your granddad, in a straw hat

A string vest


You remember the testament

A personal recollection of the ending

Of the war


Indescribable, words fail

Instead; tales of evacuation

Sisters


Children; from all over

In ones and twos and threes

With your long past adolescent


Smile

Behind the broad rimmed glasses

Back into happiness


Way away from sadness

Toss another pebble

Into the flow and ebb of sea




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