• On Water xxiii

    absence of presence bottle; long-term substitute happiness of toes ~ CLP 01/05/2021

  • On Water xx

    sorting through shingle picking out perfect pebbles stones skimming off waves . CLP 28/04/2021

  • Possible Endings

    being dragged screaming going down fighting slamming doors stepping off slipping away not waking up or just asking is it Time? a fond farewell ~ CLP 25/04/2021

  • Ill-defined

    can you divine love by words, deeds, in calm silence a heart-felt presence? ~ CLP 23/04/2021

  • On Water xiii

    a pause to reflect it was here that fate pushed me I’d to cross a bridge ~ n.b. Time and tide and all that. Choices, decisions, life goes on. ~ CLP 23/04/2021

  • Around Midnight

    timing was never more important than opportunity when hungry we ate out, or would grab something maybe just an amuse-bouche at the bus shelter, a first course perhaps irrespective of weather because hungry is no respecter of climate we always ate together we rarely went without without in sun, the rain, the snow until naturally

  • On Pain

    What hurts us the most: wounds inflicted by others; seeing one’s own faults? ~ CLP 22/04/2021

  • At the platform there stood the London train

    …the London train that was packed with people people with different places to go places thronged with colleagues and / or friends friends some new, some known for years years that have fallen like blossom blossom scented with childhood memories memories diffused by time and tide tide that swept clear a foreign shore a foreign

  • On Hope Sparked In a Slowly Fracturing Heart

    How to shift / this heavy shroud / darkening day / shadowing night eyes blinded / purgatory / lived in present / desolation sunlight floods bedroom / I awake / stiffened resolve / choice exists ~ n.b. NaPoWriMo 2021 Day Twenty Prompt: Sijo to your heart’s content: 3/4/4/4 3/4/4/4 5/3/4/3 ~ CLP 20/04/2021

  • On Moonshine

    two-faced accomplice to seducers’ silver tongues dusty pockmarked lump ~ n.b. How many false promises has the Moon encouraged forth, not least from poets? NaPoWriMo 2021 Day Seventeen: The Moon. ~ CLP 17/04/2021