I never dreamt you would
Drag me through cold, sleepless nights
Stalk my restless days
~
CLP 14/09/2020
Tag: Loss
Dropped
Look! Up there, a balloon.
Yes, up there!
Someone’s obviously dropped it
Up there
It looks like a giant floating mushroom
Or indeed a balloon
That somebody’s dropped
Obviously
.
CLP 13/09/2020
On Dreams ii
Your visit told me
nothing was as imagined
yet all still fiction
~
CLP 14/09/2020
On Dreams
Who invited you
Into my bed while I slept?
I thought we were done
~
n.b. I fancied torturing myself with some decent poetry and read “Billy’s Rain” by Hugo Williams. I could have chosen to put it down, I suppose.
13/09/2020
On Pain (Norfolk)
Young men side by side
British, Czechs, Poles, and Germans
Buried together.
~
n.b. Farmers’ fields reclaimed from airfields, except this hallowed ground that holds sons of Europe, (and Australia, Canada and New Zealand), whose souls have flown.
~
CLP 10/09/2020
On Pain xii*
Is my name Thomas?
I had to be there, feel it
The absence of Love
~
n.b. *Alternative title, ‘On Stupidity’.
CLP 04/09/2020
