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Yesterday
I opened the windows of my room with the night
I let in the stars and slept in their time
I knew their waning
When I awoke
My pillow was flattened with the weight of their time
My mind was present in the immensity of their span
I knew their past now
Today
I curtained the new day in my room with the dawn
I breathed in time and dreamed of the...
Sunday 30th April 2023 4:04 pm
The Door
Unknown reader, be glad that I have opened the door and let out
the dust of my verse for you to see an age after the words first found form on the screen, or
perhaps I have let in your imagination so, turning, you can see a single almond
blossom, pink amongst its pale russet leaves, to tempt your words out
Unknown traveller, on this day, stay, venture out
and, before they fade,...
Saturday 29th April 2023 3:00 pm
Creation
As I write, each line reaches for memories
lost, fallen beyond the edge of the world:
kamarupa dwelling in infinity, fading
when my lines do not find them
and my words fail passion and desire.
Eons, lost pasts. Which of them
could dream my frail dream of this
verse? Which, thrown
across the fabric of time, could make
nothing everything?
Wednesday 29th March 2023 3:00 pm
Who includes diversity...
Written in March 2023: one year on.
(...sees races, eras, dates, generations,
The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable together"
Walt Whitman, Kosmos)
Only fragile glass
holds the cold
night's times at bay:
each star above the beech
owning its mo...
Friday 24th March 2023 11:37 am
Resistant News
Written in March 2022 in response to Simon Armitage's 'Resistance'
We watch
the News
unable
to comprehend
the horror that is war:
we see
destruction... death... weeping...
children who do not understand
held in the arms of mothers
who do not understand
anything
except
...
Monday 20th March 2023 11:25 am
Consequences
Because I have seen
such small glory as heaven found
Lit translucent in the wing of a dragonfly serene above the dark pond depths
Lit gold in the sunlit pelt of that one white cat still beneath the tree
Lit in Spring's faint skeleton of Winter's fallen leaf
Lit in the fractal eternity of each flake that floats snow down
and know the pain each angel hears
Held in a single seadr...
Wednesday 8th March 2023 10:48 am
A Friend's Voice
He fills no space now in my quiet room.
Silence. A silence that I fill with ancient guilt,
my words morphing into pain, yet edited
away from anger, leaving a cold darkness
bereft of his voice, leaving a blind sorrow
censored of healing hope: a quietude.
Outside, the sun is blown against the glass
as it would lighten spirits, yet
its gentling warmth cannot thaw
the chil...
Saturday 25th February 2023 3:43 pm
Starnight
Seated. Warm. Propping up my latest book; the dark
pulls me from beyond the cottage window
into the cool awe of a perfect starnight
a gift to me as I walk across the damp lawn and, turning
look over the old stone wall
to the fields across the valley and up to the hills
and the arcing rim of the night
Standing. Chilled. Leaning on my garden wall; the stars
call me from ...
Saturday 18th February 2023 5:13 pm
Life Tercets
1
A story about
an old poet
and his cottage
2
A dream of an old mariner
lost in Wales
adrift on his words
3
A memory of
a young boy
on his maiden voyage
4
A memory of
innocence
lost at sea
5
A line on a chart
between a girl
and loneliness
6
A communion
...
Thursday 16th February 2023 3:26 pm
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