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on Ukraine xxiii
reading a poemare you a star dancer ordreaming of dancing? ~ n.b. Thank you for reading my poem, ‘Star Dancer and Her School of Dance – Francis Picabia 1913‘ . We don’t know each other, but I wish you well. CLP 11/04/2022 →
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Marie Celeste
She approached in full rigCatching every breathSilent as a swan on that silvery seaThere was just the Moon watching herAnd meAdriftLike night’s ships shouldShe seemed to steer clearSo, was it me or she who veered?No bored inquiry could ascertainI threw out an old lineSoon found myself aboardAll ship-shape, lights ablazeFully crewed with memories of menWho →
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on romance
best left unspokencompany, comfort, laughtermore precious than gold ~ n.b. There is too much said, too often. We all risk becoming amateur psychologists. Is it not better to go with the flow? I am a slow learner, I fear, but keen to learn. n.n.b. I just realised my picture contains two flotation rings…try not to →
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Raspberries
Late June to late September it read, Scotlandyou showed me the advert and said, Let’s go!We caught the train northone ticket between us and two cheese rollsInto July in white-washed block accommodationa decent shower, where sometimes you left me to wash aloneWarm Westerlies and long-lit evenings brought out your frecklesturned my skin the colour of →
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Absent Witch Constant Spell
within and withoutabout and aboveon water in airheld by limbs of dark woodsspun out in high cloudsin setting sun and rising starsbroken moon on the lakedancing through Alpine mistsunk in thermal poolsstrung out by pylonswith their infinite linescaught in corners of roomsby fine webs I’ll be boundwhile her butterfly wings no more can be found →
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on luck (on Ukraine xxii)
cold rain and Covidare we heating or eating?anything else? ~ n.b. Escape your oppressors, come to the UK. You’ll be welcomed with warm hearts once you have passed HM Border Force with your visa. CLP 30/03/2022 →
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on time / on Ukraine xxi
cash our currencywhile you pay in cold bloodtoo little too late? ~ n.b. We do what we can, but this is the only way we know how. Is it enough? CLP 27/03/2022 →
Journey of Words 