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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