4/3/4 (#2)

some more poems
all written
in 4/3/4

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#27: night sky #1

beneath the stars
on my back
I lay weeping

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#28: night sky #2

A near full moon
surrounded
by wisps of cloud

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#29: memory loss

I have learned much
forgotten
many times more

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#30: discomfort

pigeon orgy
on the roof
I look away

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#31: ruin

they closed the pub
years ago
left it to rot

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#32: approaching dusk #1

the contrails sweep
in curved arcs
across the sky

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#33: approaching dusk #2

storm clouds approach
thunder heard
no lightning seen

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#34: a sunday afternoon

suddenly now
I feel sick
faint, my eyes weep

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#35: afterwards

I sleep soundly
through the night
and through the day

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#36: british summer time

went to the shops
it rained and
rained and rained and

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#37: living room

there’s a spider
hanging there
waiting, waiting

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#38: bank holiday weekend #1

sat beneath a
parasol
and did not move

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#39: bank holiday weekend #2

hair wet with sweat
head throbbing
i cannot sleep

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#40: an autobiography of my life until now

I was lonely
then I was
lonelier still

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#41: september

the sun went in
the wind blew
early autumn

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#42: in the park #1

a sausage dog
prancing by
grinning, grinning

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#43: in the park #2

a pound a bag
by the pond
to buy duck food

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#44: in the park #3

i put away
the rubbish
others had left

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#45:

a small forest
of dead trees
all turned to bone

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#46: beyond intransigence

if I can change
my own mind
you can change yours

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#47: the catcher in the rye

I’d never read
this before
but now I have

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#48: i

I feel so tired
all the time
old bones aching

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#49: corrections

rewriting this
poem took
several hours

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#50: in my pocket

a tiny scrap
of paper
containing this

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#51: autumnal river scene #1

on the river
an egret
amongst the gulls

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#52: autumnal river scene #2

fisherman’s boat
fisherman
fisherman’s dog

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Notes:

1. Written between August 10th and September 6th

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