Pitstop by bike
wheeling in fresh air
eyes fired up
I saw echoes of laughter
felt past present
deja you
~
CLP 04/06/2021
Dream #9
Sleep called me
I was out
Sleep left a message
I missed it
Sleep had a stern word
“My office, first thing”
Left me to restless contemplation
considering consequences
~
CLP 03/06/2021
Dream #8
Music stops
everyone dances one step more
before realising what’s occuring
mad rush to chairs
enough for us all
~
CLP 02/06/2021
Dream #7
Everyone came along
everyone I had ever loved
friends, family, heroes
those I had been too shy to speak with
it was one hell of a party
I was dead, lucky
Heaven
~
CLP 31/05/2021
Dream #6
so silent this blue turns black
nothing moves on Earth
a meteor streak
a faint schwoosh far off
sprinkled stardust
dissolves into tapestry of night
~
CLP 31/05/2021
Dream #5
Stepping out to find something
found nothing, no clues
everyone doing normal things
prejudices welled up dripping false accusations
who, when, how
anxiety of loss relieved in music
somebody, oh somebody up there
likes me?
~
CLP 01/06/2021
Dream #4
Bonjour madame
Monsieur, bonjour
Je voudrais un pain au raisin et un pain au chocolat, si vous plait
D’accord. À boire, monsieur?
Ah, mais oui! Une tea, merci.
Merci, monsieur.
Et un vers d’eau, aussi?
Sorry, mate, would you speak in English? I can’t take your accent anymore. Thanks for trying.
~
n.b. All errors are deliberate…it’s supposed to be light-hearted. I don’t want Académie Française on my case. Thank you to the Foreign Languages Editor, Woody for support with Dream #4.
CLP 31/05/2021
Dream #3
river fills on orange moon tide
rattle of reeds shifted by breeze
barn owl drifts along field edge
blackbirds call up night with complex codas
we lie back
watching for meteors
~
CLP 29/05/2021
Dream #2
chairs edge round
tracking the high Sun’s arc
across the piazza
blue pierced by medieval tower
the cafê name
Italian
~
CLP 29/05/2021
Dream #1
Wild plum tree blossom
crack willow yellow pollen
smattering on the gesso of sky
stretched across its frame
by North Sea blow
~
CLP 28/05/2021
