Hopes & tears

All hopes & tears
Will condensate
in the souls
and hearts of all you’ve loved
and blossom on & on…
into a new eternal plane
where the sun
is always cordially, shining
because you have such
A deep emotion
and passion truly felt
And understood,
worth its salt
in sharing…

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Privy to the wind and tide

Coastal waters tugged your heart
Into deeper oceans moon-lit dark
But still your shores ached new lands
New moorings beneath palm-wet sands
And yet you yearn for that first port of call
That line and hook of golden bait
That motion in the first wave's gate
That left your heart a squall...

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Kingdom Of The Wind

Why does a humming bee
Secret the words
That we decline to trust
Why does he understand
The fledgling world;
That we commend to dust.

Is there not a flower
In the desert sand;
That hasn't heard the hum
Is there not a bee on earth?
Whose kingdom of the wind,
Hasn't arisen from the sun:

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Language is the kingdom

Language is the kingdom of the soul.
Its compass is the making of the whole
Weather by madness Science or art!
Its lineage contains the heart.
And when its needle points out death
language becomes our immortal breath…
On ancient winds now holy light!
It lifts the silence off the night.

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I Dance In The Flames Of Your Love

I dance in the flames of your love
A tongue of tenderness trembles me
I yearn for your bones resting place
For the joyful; tears on your face.

I will sing a seabird in your arms
Sing a siren of the white buoying-waves
Pirouetted buoyant, afloat my love.
I am drowning on this plume - my dove.

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Wisdom

Wisdom
Looms, tempered
Like a daylily blooms
In bars of iron sleep
Wisdom wakes
Like a ravenous lion.
With ears of golden wheat
Folded yet; into another sleep.
Wisdom roars and rolls, out
His paws his talon claws
He lifts up his prey
Just to snarl'
What did you taste?
Here on the air today!

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Daybreak

Daybreak brings a hope so grand;
Only in our torn dreams brier roses
Untangling do we begin to understand?
What sparkle in the shadows composes
The lyrics on the wind quietly broken
The mercy in the power of a plain
Red rose on fire! Tearfully, unspoken
Hushed pride disintegrating it's reign!

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Fewer nicks' no, grey upholstery

I saw a Volvo for sale for £300 today
Outside a swanky refit McDonald's
All blue and chrome, without a home
Square as an old 70s coffee table…

A thought ran by me, it's in good nick
Considering its age! Then I thought?
It's younger than me, fewer miles…
Fewer nicks' no, grey upholstery.

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Black Ladder

Black ladder I long
To finger to feel
A pulse a curve
Pulsating inward

Grinning outwards
An ageless smile
Horizons on the pillow
As I still mountaineer
Clinging hold of her brazier

Vertigo dizzies itself on a cleft
One more swing-out and in
And the fabric of the world
Will fit into a rubber skin

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In Loves Gainsay

She; love 'shower me in kisses
Rinse my soul of lustful wishes'
Blossom but once within my heart
A flower seed; your loves impart.

He; dare say 'I, in loves gainsay,
We'll gamete too marry one portentous day'
The best mans orotund tones he will interplay
With what little left our love has still too say

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