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UN CAFE E UN LIMONCELLO
Un café e un limoncello
A coffee and a limoncello
Dopo il pranzo
After dinner
Un café e un limoncello
I am captivated by ritual
For me food and drink
Have to mean something
Dopo il riso , dopo il vino
Per piacere, please
Un café e un limoncello
After the rice, after the wine
There’s plenty of time
For a ...
Thursday 3rd January 2013 8:26 pm
YOGA NIDA
YOGA NIDA
(Sleep Yoga)
Lay me down flat
Yoga Nida
Let the tension
Flow slowly out
Here on the floor
Yoga Nida
Let me be still
Peaceful and warm
Sinking, sleeping
Yoga Nida
Velvet blackness
Surrounding me
The guru’s words
Yoga Nida
I drift away
My pain is gone
Lay me down here
Yoga Nid...
Friday 5th October 2012 11:28 pm
FIRST CUT
FIRST CUT
The first cut is brutal
always deep with cold
blade tearing into timber
opening a pathway
for subtler strokes
slicing with sharpness,
carving strongly,
the base for intricate designs
on blocks gripped tightly
in the jaws of steel vices
The last cut is gentler
a loving after thought
adding a signature
to shaped and sha...
Monday 24th September 2012 10:41 pm
SEPTEMBER
SEPTEMBER
September arrived quietly
With the morning train
Catching us unawares
Still tanned from summer
Smoking in the goods yard
Discussing holidays
Reading of redundancies
A radio humming news
Of road accidents
And unexplained murders
In distant countries
Celebrity indiscretions
Distracting our attention
From gathering cloud...
Sunday 16th September 2012 7:50 pm
CASTING LOTS
Beauty yet resides in redbrick
Surrounded by railings
Charm in coloured tiles
A touch of stained glass
Roofs that sag still uplift
Spirits made melancholy
By the grimness of concrete
Rusting window frames
Though difficult to open
Allow freshness to enter
Not so in the stale chambers
Of breeze block and plastic
...Sunday 9th September 2012 3:51 pm
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