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Monday 22 April 2024

Posing Nude

She more than made an effort, her figure creator. Every morning not yawning, but slipping on the tummy vibrator. Melba toast was the most that passed those sweet red lips. Palates, yoga, stretching, swaying, swaying those swinging hips.

The artists and the painters they did not restrain her. Posing nude for her life class and for her figure friend dude. Running on the moors, treading timeless, line-less steps. Pumping iron, and swimming on, down the full length lane.

Fully spread under summer sun, tanning, figure slamming. Cramming in the cranberry juice and the fat free yoghurt. All of this to manage the refrain between size twelve and size fourteen

Skin supplements, perpetual E45. Conscientiously keeping her beauty, keeping beauty alive. The hairdressers kept moving, they were kept on their toes. A trim, a bob, no perm, for my brunette, well trimmed rose.




Sunday 21 April 2024

Smothered lovers

Naked

Never

Except forever

When we were lovers


Together we discovered

We smothered our bodies with love and lust


Naked

Cleverly

We revealed

Our concealed others


Together we stroked and smoked

Hoped without talk to recover our lust and love


Naked

Together

Under natures covers

We were, weren’t we, we were smothered lovers



Saturday 20 April 2024

Wobbly

Wobbly

Sleeping together

Keep your distance

Close your eyes to realise

The futile situation

A brutal station

Mutual pain

Acrid Rain

Singles dance

Lost romance

Do not touch

Do not chance

Being kind

Keep a cool mind

Calm emotions

Steady nerves

Don’t stir it up

Do not stir it up

So tired

Little time left to sleep

Anxieties awakened

Temperance shaken

Sleeping together

Oddly

Wobbly



Friday 19 April 2024

Wasted Place, Sometime

Somewhere on the M5

Around Taunton way I’d say

The morning after nothing had happened


The blue, clear blue sky

Matched the mood of release

Relief from those scattered sheets


That dripping tap

Shrinking threads and wasting washers


Now I remember

Before Bristol for sure, the afternoon before

The night when nothing happened


The grey sea mist from the estuary

Matched the mood of doubt, unknown quarry

Set up for the fall, recall the previous dishes.


That silken strap

Silken threads and tummy squashes


Now I remember

Down among the Chilterns

The evening, the actual evening, the non event


If it meant anything, It meant nothing to me

The wind drifted, the rainbow lifted

Lifted on moor and gorse


No recourse, no negotiation, a stated situation

Inclined by inclination I’m listening to Bukowski

You’re watching television, you’re watching TV


Now I remember

Some place obscure

Wasted time for sure


Sex, whore, wife, life

How would it feel to think your wife a whore

Lore would life suffice such a trice


Would the expectation stride in tight

At the fleeting sight

Of the translucent gossamer light



Thursday 18 April 2024

Donald Shimoda

Just along the A5

Past Weston Park

An early morning drive

Ripe to be surprised


Inner self or outer self

Collective unconscious

Or something deeper

Daffodils in bloom deep within

The sunken soul


Like a ghost

Or a drowned man floating to the surface

The movement was a continuum

Without jar or jolt, the rising

Om, Om, Om for a lost love


Later, in peace, quiet, calm, tranquillity

Om cannot resurrect

From the pit of the body to the tip of the mind

There is no traffic to carry the urn of any kind


The ashes have flown on the wind

Unable to rescind the cindered lingered candle

A flickering, flickering, sickening, failing glow

Extinguished, vanquished, decayed

A dying atmospheric orb


But it did happen

And for that I thank more than I can ever know

I write these words of thanks

To tell you, of what I do not know


Is that how the flower feels in pollination

Some union with an Albion of kind

Was it received or reciprocated or was it bounded

Then bandaged; was it unrequited love


Like the kite blown along the breeze

Or Donald Shimoda in timeless flight

It is a Messiah’s handbook which helps me discover

To recover the greetings of souls; souls meeting

Greeting together as deep below; below as above