• on stage ii

    music, light, action, wordssublime to the minisculethéâtre pour tous~ 17/09/2024

  • on Sunday afternoon

    A life-time ago, Brian Eno produced a CD that would make full use of that then novel recorded audio formatHe wrote a single track of ambient music that lasted about 80 minutesAmbient music was his name for music designed, as it were, to fill spaces, it was defiantly not muzakHis music was for big places

  • on holiday

    delicious prospectof time unconstrained by alarmsof mornings concerned with a different urgencyof late summer’s long shadowswines known only by word of mouthof pillows perfumed by perspirationof laughter and heady sleep~ CLP 06/09/2024

  • on stone

    Rounded, smoothed by ageRubbing along quite nicelyShingle swirled by sea~ n.b. Full credit to the creativity of pebble finder and arranger, R.Grainger (c) 2015. This is a picture of a delightful postcard received today featuring the art piece. CLP 03/09/2024

  • on friendship

    Winning is not asimportant as taking parthappiness of children~ CLP 01/09/2024

  • on rain

    As we walked the perimeter pathOf the recently mown parkNeatly marked out for the new football seasonOrange slats of setting Sun lit the base of looming cloud bankCan you smell the rain in the air?I askedLook at you, all in touch with nature. Rain’s not been forecast.she advisedIt will rain. I saidLater, as I was

  • on time

    When the day arrivesIt doesn’t matter how longGetting there’s taken~ n.b. Each previous year, month, week, day, hour, minute, second contributes to knowing that now is the right time. CLP 27/08/2024

  • Puppy Love

    August had baked the soil, ripened the grainHarvest had progressed uninterruptedWe laid on our backsShoulder to shoulderThe late-afternoon Sun pinned us to the parched lawnThe grass had stopped growingA fortnight or more agoPale in leaf, sharp dry stemsPrickled the skin if we movedShe was watching the cloudsReally studying themAs if in all her past summer

  • on Saturday

    special place to bein sunny southern weatherwith friends and family~ n.b. Fratton Park looking as good as it ever has. CLP 17/08/2024

  • on waking

    Gently ease sleep offWith whispered confidencesChirping of sparrows~ CLP 10/08/2024