
ships pass red to red
avoiding collision risk
no coincidence
~
n.b. If you don’t take a risk you won’t get hurt.
CLP 23/12/2023
Liberté, Égalité, Humanité
ships pass red to red
avoiding collision risk
no coincidence
~
n.b. If you don’t take a risk you won’t get hurt.
CLP 23/12/2023
you reminded me
of a place we had once been
featureless echo
~
n.b. Forgetting is an essential survival skill. Thankfully we cannot call up actual pain, just the memory of having been in pain.
CLP 07/12/2022
callers would call by
she wanted no ties
a younger man would love her
then think she was his
you can call by, she'd say
whenever you want
but I only have callers
no one owns me
then she met him
with his travelling guitar
his once fair long hair
had long since gone grey
the twinkle he carried
in his guitar case
attracted young women
no strings attached
the two of them met
she said something clicked
she, a bar woman
he, guitar man
callers went packing
young women sent back
these two had four years
before slowly he died
four years of true loving
was what they had
the love of her life
she was grateful for that
~
n.b. Everyone has a story. I heard this one recently. Deeply moved by it, I was.
CLP 01/12/2022
She knows what she wants
She's learning how to get it
It's not his job to tell her
Not his job to show her
If he does, what will he learn?
What will he lose?
~
CLP 30/11/2022
you, obviously
in such a rush to undress
I found a button
~
CLP 30/11/2022
do you know how long
it takes until your scent fades
the taste of you dulls?
~
CLP 27/11/2022
here, we see Sunday
who stole Friday, Saturday?
today a fresh sheet
~
n.b. Days merge, nights blur, feverish hours melt.
CLP 27/11/2022
when would suit you best?
no time like the present, but
not on a school night
~
n.b. Time is tight, but there are limits.
questions unanswered
because I had not courage
to ask them of you
~
n.b. Opportunities lost.
CLP 11/11/2022
somehow we'll find words
spoken or written to say
what has been hidden
~
n.b. It just takes time to get the language right. Non?
CLP 10/11/2022