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Not Yet Gone
Return to summer Home to strong shadows, warm skin Tingles from nettles . CLP 06/01/2020 →
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Diminuendo
Slowly the tide turns Gently carries our memories To distant shores While the sea air Holds the taste of our tears . CLP 06/01/2020 →
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Depuis 1960
Still asking questions Always happy for answers Easy or painful . n.b. I am hungry for more. Feed me. . CLP 06/01/2020 →
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Butterfly (III)
Flitting From fruit to flower As if by random chance Following the sweetest scent Unsettled by slightest tremor Fluttering to fresh space Sets down, silent, still Absorbing heat of Sun Full expanse of detail, colour, beauty Revealed in staccato stretches Then open display She flew after Gently removing Each of my wings* And leaving me →
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On Friends
On Friends Present acceptance With perspective and love Without passion’s ills . n.b. You know who they are and they know you. CLP 05/01/2020 →
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And then there was light
In greyest of days Burnt down to the final draw A flicker of hope . CLP 04/01/2020 →
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In the Theatre
Everyone loves A bit of drama but not During operations . CLP 04/01/2020 →
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On Time and Space
Earth circles and spins Calendar turns to new year Nothing as before . n.b. In some respects we are back at the beginning, but this is not so. This solar system has been moving through the Universe whilst our blue planet has rotated on its axis and circumnavigated the Sun. We are at a place →
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On Sticks
Tendrils wrap, hold, reach Climb taut twine, bridge hazel rods Pink petals burst free . n.b. I built a frame from coppiced wood cut from the hedges aligning an ancient sunken path, a holloway. French beans, already planted, wound their plastic, green shoots around the cat’s cradle of inter-laced garden string, popped their flower cases, →
Journey of Words 