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Ill-defined
can you divine love by words, deeds, in calm silence a heart-felt presence? ~ CLP 23/04/2021 →
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Incoming Email (after WH Auden’s ‘Night Mail’)
Ping! This is the email crossing the globe Bringing a virus and an online fraud . Text-rich content, images slowly downloading Key-board warriors and echo chamber goading . Pulling out aggressive pop-ups every time No escape from a heart-broken ex never offline . Past the junk filter and block sender lists Nonsense from your father →
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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 →
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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 →
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On Water xii
dirty old canal lone Wellington boot floats questions unanswered ~ CLP 21/04/2021 →
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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 →
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On Water xi
from all various hues and shades of playful light blue is my colour ~ n.m. Although there is one particular pair of green eyes I dearly love. CLP 20/04/2021 →
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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 →
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On Water x
night oils the river dark thoughts patrol between banks let us not go there ~ n.b. Dedicated to You Little Charmer because her writing makes me laugh…and cry. ~ CLP 19/04/2021 →
Journey of Words 