
memory of past
fades alongside agreed plans
future forgotten
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n.b. Forgetting yesterday is a useful self-preservation process, forgetting what should be happening tomorrow must be frightening.
CLP 21/02/2023
Liberty, Equality, Humanity
memory of past
fades alongside agreed plans
future forgotten
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n.b. Forgetting yesterday is a useful self-preservation process, forgetting what should be happening tomorrow must be frightening.
CLP 21/02/2023
I used to play too
when panelled footballs had laces
goal nets luxury
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n.b. Today I made this clay model of a football I was given one Christmas. It was orange, as this will be painted, when dry. Something for my grandson?
CLP 20/7/2022
nigh two years have passed
we're increasingly distant
universe expands
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CLP 13/07/2022
recognisable
strangely unfamiliar
back to beginning
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CLP 27/05/2021
solid as Scotch mist
with fragility of glass
precious compass point
.
CLP 08/05/2021
a pause to reflect
it was here that fate pushed me
I’d to cross a bridge
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n.b. Time and tide and all that. Choices, decisions, life goes on.
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CLP 23/04/2021
The shift from yesterday’s promising warmth of sunshine to this fog threatening existence was brutal. No wind as such, but bitter cold, bitter.
The numbering of days in this lockdown is moving on so fast. Best not to look back to what has been left behind, or left undone, but to look ahead, to plot a course. Heaven’s light our guide.
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CLP 01/03/2021
What relief there is
to know our confusion’s past.
For that I’m grateful.
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n.b. In a complex world, establishing a little bit of peace, love and understanding is always a good thing, however long it takes to get there.
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CLP 21/02/2021
Here’s white light, no heat
Heaven’s lights will shine bright tonight
In this brilliant galaxy
how will you hear
the star that calls to you?
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CLP 18/02/2021
Retrograde movement
an optical illusion
Orpheus, don’t look!
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n.b. Apparently there is a bit of thing when Mercury is backsliding for nostalgia. Being grateful for the good things is one thing, wallowing in the past – meh.
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CLP 17/02/2021