What a privilege it is to share 

This life with the one I first called ‘friend’.

You are my home, my sanctuary.

Evidence that I’m God’s favorite.

 

It is my joy to love you, to nurture us,

To witness the evolution of our family.

Let’s vow to reintroduce ourselves to

The versions of each other we have yet to meet. 

Each other, all of us, my one and only-

Greatness is m...

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I knew you before I knew your name,

a rhythm that beats closer than my jugular,

a ship that sets sail on open waters

through oceans that refuse to shrink.

 

From the moment your voice echoed across,

I knew that there was another wounded as I was,

and longed for you before I had the right to,

before time and space gave their permission.

 

I would give you anything you ...

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Crypt Copse

don't get lost in the copse or corpse 

tell me what hit — hip dip- -drift pity--pit you live in — is it — mine.

Jist is Zionism-- eats its own Judaist — without time — and fire — pyre — gire — vire — cyre — crossfire — higher — cry and lunges at the wire —-

with wirey desire to kill for you-- hymns sing to him — will dim the

candle— light — plight of now — hitey — astro ...

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True love is the rarest gem, 

And I've certainly found mine, 

In a girl who smells like cherries;

Whose laugh feels like warm wine

 

My heart swells at every little thing she does, 

Like the way she twirls her silken hair,

The way she scrunches her nose in the morning;

Half-asleep and all her loveliness laid bare

 

And when she holds me in the night,

I feel the ...

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You said once that I was the sun,

Always so bright and blazing,

Always so warm, so lovely

With my evergreen smile and booming laugh.

You said I had a soul made of gold,

A heart so big that dragons would cower,

But what if I told you,

I don’t feel quite so golden anymore?

What if I told you,

There are cracks in my being

That bleed darkness into everything I love?

...

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You don't know how the memories are playing their silent games,
How softly, without a sound, they return and whisper back your name.
Long shadows trace the walls of the shadowed rooms, abandoned moments slowly ascending.

​You don't know how days come back in crowds I can't refuse.
Silence descends upon my lips and mingles with smoke that floats away,
Nicotine and breathless sighs last long ...

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Confrontation, with no understanding

 

arguments, with no solution

 

silence, that is deafening 

 

the beginning predicted our end because we chose the easy route

 

instead of talks of our lives we chose to silence each other with our lips.

 

instead of listening and understanding, an intimate touch took away our problems.

For at time. 

 

we assumed our probl...

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They say no one's immortal, 

But I still curve my G's the way my mother taught me, 

My brother still carries her eyes, her smile, 

My father still wears the sweaters she knit for him

 

They say no one's immortal, 

But the books on the shelves

Still contain her lengthy annotations,

And every nook and cranny of the house

Contains the remnants of her love

 

They say n...

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Before a flower falls to the ground,

it is admired, inhaled, and passed from hand to hand.

It spends its whole life being a gift.

That's what we humans are.

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Yours

I am yours
not as something kept or claimed,
not bound by hands or marked by name,
but as the stars belong to sky,
still burning bright, still passing by
never asking where to lie.

The way the moon belongs to tides,
never touching what it guides,
pulling oceans in their sleep
undeniable force that needn’t speak.

How morn belongs to birds that sing
in early light on fragile ...

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Many people pose as giants,

But most are not quite the real deal.

Some often simply shrink away

As you are preparing to kneel,

Emitting just a puny squeal.

 

A lot are mouth-and-trousers types;

In the flesh they fail to impress.

They talk good games from far away,

But shrivel when put to the test,

Their hulking form in full regress.

 

These big guys will throw a...

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And to the one right there beside you now,
In spring, I will gift the blossoms of the cherry trees;
So even branches would bend a little in your name
Under the bliss your silent love might bring.
And whoever holds your weary hand,
With evening rain I shall pale weep lilies.
To guard the small dreams that you never planned
And kiss off the shadows of your pain.
And I will only love you from...

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Carrying me in the blaring, blazing cold

As we walked down the street

You kissed me as the snow fell

It felt like a fairytale to me. 

 

Our first “I love you”

Was straight out of a movie

I swore then you were the love of my life – 

Now you regret me.

 

You had no flaws.

You were perfect in my eyes.

You promised you’d never leave, but you still said goodbye

Yo...

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My dearest,

Your laugh is like rain,

It soaks me, drowns me,

Until I can breathe no more.

Your smile is so bright,

It could power cities,

It blinds me, until everything else is night,

And you are the only sun I have ever known.

Your voice; so gentle, so serene,

As soft as feather-light touches

Skittering across my skin.

And your eyes, oh your eyes,

You...

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I thought I would have to tear it from my chest.
Rip it free
from bone and breath,
place it in her hands
as something chosen.
Something given.

 

But there was no need.
She took it without asking.

 

Not with force,
not with urgency,
but the way dawn takes the night.

 

Quietly.
Without resistance.
Without permission ever being required. 

A quiet thief.
And I did not s...

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The bond is not a chain -
It's a freedom with much more security,
The bond is not the agreement -
It's a belief ,
The bond is not the selfish one -
It acts as a support to each other,
The bond is not agent of sorrow,
But rather it is the call to a happy life,
The bond is not the shadow of paleness;
It's the light of the blooming moon,
The bond doesn't define the ending;
It's a new journ...

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You Glow

 

You glow

with love for me.

Accepting all I give,

never questioning if I love.

I don’t.

 

TEARS FALL

 

Tears fall

like rivers of

pain. Rejection will hurt.

Just touch him and say goodbye to

your heart.

 

Streetlight

 

It glows.

The safe ribbon

of light, meandering

on toward home. But my path was

unlit.

 

...

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This one's from my 1968 Notebook - actually written in 1970. I was 20 and into Astrology. Did you know? Did you know that Cancer was compatible with Virgo? No? Well, it is. So now, you should take notice of me. You’re so tall you have to bend to come through the door. I’m so small I have to jump to reach the top shelf. Funny, hey, that I should fancy you ...

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You ask me why i left dancing-

surely i loved it,then why?

but when i say i left it,

why cant you simply accept that?

 

How do i tell you that now,

every time i raise my hand to sway

it no longer move in a free,careless rythm,

but trembles instead,

like something asking,

like something begging.

 

Every time i enter that space

it no longer brings me creat...

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As my book hits the shelves (or the on line equivalent) I thought I'd shae the poem at the heart of it - as audio and below.  I will be formally launching the book itself in Dorking on the 17th April- anyone in the vivinty who wants to come just let me know. And the book is available on A Love Letter to The Planet, and the people on it (this is Amazon, Waterstones will have it shortly)

And gere...

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We stand at a crossroad,

With a choice to make,

Different paths ahead,

We now must take.

 

As you turn to the left,

And I to the right,

A tear falls as you fade from sight.

 

So walk your road,

And I’ll walk mine,

Two separate journeys,

No longer aligned. 

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I see your colour, clear and bright, 

A shade of yellow, full of light. 

But when you speak, your colour's bled, 

Your sunny yellow turns to red. 

 

Still you can call me colourblind, 

For truth and sight feel misaligned. 

Your words tell me you're burning red, 

But yellow lingers in my head. 

 

I close my eyes to all you've said, 

And paint you gold instead of red...

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Don't smile now,

I can still see yourself peeking out from your good side.

Don't laugh now,

I've still managed to keep my cracks sealed tonight.

Don't cry now,

your tears burn against your double-stitched fabric heart.

Don't scroll now,

your porcelain eyes may be fixed to perfect likes till dawn.

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I walked toward home,
yet with every step I took,
the distance between home and me grew.

I had only recently understood
the meaning of the word fitoor,
so let me begin again

For me, fitoor and home were the same.

I searched for my fitoor
in the hope of finding them
the gaze, the laughter,
my comfort, my reassurance.

I walked toward it,
ran toward it,
even crawled.

But with ...

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I move a fingertip, I breathe, I blink,

And I communicate a thought to you.

Where others speak and listen , we but think,

And all my dearest longings thus are brought to you.

 

There is within me something separate,

Sits back to wonder, only dumb at this.

Never dreaming of such mindless beauty.

Barely tapped by thought,

The fathomless wells of love.

 

Time, wa...

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i wish i could tell you when 

a sister of your perfume hits my nose

and i close,

my eyes and drift away

into more memories still

 

I wish i could tell you how

I cry when I hear your voice

talking to other boys

 

How I miss the noise,

that blessed my ear

when no one else could hear 

 

I wish I could tell you that

I still hear the giggle,

you loosed wh...

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Carpe Momentum

 

Momentous

 

superfluous opposing movements

just as fluids do past each other

 

improvements

attunement to the light’s

insight

A futurist's vision

similarities to a T-800 series terminator

 

salvaging used computer components for gold

and, having them meltdown

 

it’s final words were 99% of the population will keel over from sheer bor...

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— Entities

God’s enemies …

reckoning on pity

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I turned to the sun in search of God,

The rays of light directed me to you.

By the time my eyes adjusted to your glare,

I knew wholeheartedly that I didn’t want to endure another sunset without you.

 

The moon wishes it compared to your beauty.

For what is the moon but a rock in the sky?

You are made of precious jewels, sunshine, rain, and laughter.

To care for you is my pr...

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“The British and the Americans

are two peoples

united by a common language:

that of love!”

Yours Truly, 16/1/26

[apologies to GB Shaw]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love, on the front line,

Murdered: there for her neighbor.

Poet in motion.

 

 

Le Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh,

ag a dó dhéag a chlog,

Dé hAoine, an séú ...

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—some closeness is measured not in touch, but in the spaces we dare to share

 

Work spouse—HR shorthand for a lived cliché.

X-rays in long-abandoned airports read sonnets under our silk.

Yes, we learned the steps of that corporate ballet.

Zippers silently weep—damned to sulk.

 

As highways unbuttoned, our days lived out in lost miles.

Blouses slipped one notch—sheer fabric ...

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I triggered a dent in the pool
Because of all the coins I'd tossed, hoping they would be eaten
By the ghoul who makes wishes come true,
So he and I are both well-fed.

But my world is small and ambition boundless,
I realize, as I stare at my potential,
An arched sunbeam, a half-hearted caress,
A constant reminder seeping through the walls of my shell.

But I can't make peace with what I'...

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I open my chest like a book

Spine bending to allow this move

Both arms in use

I’m the shape of a hook

As though a hollow recess nooks

In the shelter of my wings 

But instead: colours and depth expose

Crumbs of my world escape

They’d talk for us if they could

You’re far away

Stiff, a figure from wood

Unable to reach out 

From where you’re stood 

Or even from n...

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got a lot of heart

A martial artist pained

paints the canvas
a dark red
black & blue
due to lack of oxygen

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I want to Marry you, maritime vibes, in the Bay Area like during low tide yeah, I want to really seize the moment and feel the energies of the sea’s breeze, therapeutic

they’d love it too if you threw your bridal shoes into our crowd then we can walk around the beach with the sand beneath our feet

 

dispel any negative energy, lift and thin the veil

to breakthrough the threshold

can...

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To love and lose

Is to choose a love that meant you

Could be the one standing here today

Taking on anew

 

How freeing the moment

 

The tears uncontrollably shift the lash beneath the pounding samba dances of your pain

That skip that whisks your life away 

To the land of milk and honey 

Only to arrive back crashing down

Into the factory thumping in your ribcage

 

...

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envisage the vision
believe in the dream

support the
purported
person you love
and care for

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ad libitum

I love to listen
to the rhythm
of a heart’s beat break
mixtape rapping
without skipping a beat

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some incorporeal humans in form
ate what they say
was a plant based diet
and thus were subject
to divergent evolution

amorphous... because
the species had once chosen
not to consume animal proteins
frowning down upon us from the heavens
as if we were subhuman

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I'm thinking with my dickhead

and

speaking with these pussy lips

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heroic dosages, taken
on a trip made up out of fear

nightmare fuel

Terra’s mental plane

astral travel…
plan it…

and don’t even begin to panic, or else...
they may think you need help

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A method actor
was asked for their perspective

which is more difficult
to impersonate, and
get inside the mind
of a deluded lunatic

or out of character

and, it was answered
with laughter

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training everyday
gave me this blood lust

had a fever dream
and, awoke in cold sweats

we have a safe word
that turns me off

like I’m a sleeper agent

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ancestors were what we worshipped
the old gods
ancient technology with it’s instructions writ in alien languages
“world war 4 will be fought with sticks and stones”

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The soul
it’s being…
Left— with lingering memories

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their body—
built on—
a foundation of lies

my own, from their doubts

The house of pain

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ignorance is a bliss

euphoric

the ego indulges

in during times of stress

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enlightening

A universal mind

open to new ideas
with expanded awareness

brainstorming in the heavens
of, the seven seas overhead

why is it that death is personified
it is so when he is weakened

that’s the unmaking of the grim reaper
a befitting demise, his

mortality—
a spare rib
the quanta of
an excitable atom
shushed —
acquiesced

and during this evanescence death die...

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magic inks spill across the page
creating a rorschach image
a crazy person’s deluded vision
of their artistry that of which
others simply cannot see

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poetry is
the rememory of passed moments
inner beauty,
a narrator’s world view, and
thoughts manifest
as spoken word…
public thinking with no critique

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