winter light leaves
round the bend trees bears golden,
the horse chestnuts lose first.
bus in front turns left, I slow, drive home.
my photograph is buried it in damp earth.
light leaves.
winter light leaves
round the bend trees bears golden,
the horse chestnuts lose first.
bus in front turns left, I slow, drive home.
my photograph is buried it in damp earth.
light leaves.
your writing delights
in the latter sparseness
the initial intensity
i enjoy reading it
coming to life
before me
beside me the window open
an owls sounds
yet no lorries
on the road yet
remember and
we touch the wall
where the car crashed
that time back
remember how he died
how my friend tried to
help
so we carry on
we went
were constructive
experienced
and overcame
any difficulties
the moon shone huge
on our horizon
the wind bit
like alligators
while fires burned
around the world
even in bolton
the verdict was guilty
i came home feeling
so
that we fail folk
that we need to think deeper
other than we always have
she said it has always been done like that
even though that is not the way folk speak
now
even though it is just a book edited and words
deleted
we drank coffee and talked some and then
went home
we were thanked
we were not required
yes something feels different
that day in february
last
the day as hot as summer
the sea by there as still as
i have never seen before
transfixed
while some cooed with delight
at their luck with such a grand
day
research started two hundred years
ago
yet what do i know
except it feels different
and the rug no longer on the cellar
floor
so we carry on
we had snow yesterday
and while all stopped still
in that valley
here we were fine
and carried on
a good start to the day
strong signal
good music
yet i can’t spell it
other people use cliches
repeat what they hear
brainwashed
some just laugh at it all
i laughed at the podcast
two guys from america
explaining rhyming slang
from cockney land
changes
to language
an example gone awry
was apples and stairs
left me weak
& happy
here we have seven dangers
to life flood warnings
while johnson made no difference
by visiting
the water did not recede
waters have their own way
as does fire
some doubt climate change
despite the science
she says we shall have sunny spells
& i go to the cinema
a proper saturday
on top there was snow here early
then the sun came
&
we have a golden day
erasing any white
therefore
elsewhere there were floods
boys rode through on bikes
and i think of you
the bravery
who knows what lies underneath
here the land goes up and down
water drains
into rivers
lakes
&
cellars
soon is gone
with the morning
so much recovered
we carry on
we have learned many ways
that may be the thing to do
& i too
may need to get over it
nearly every year
on this type of day when
vapours, mists hang in the valley it
enters the mind , a cellular
memory, annual anniversary
born ages back
enduring.
recurring each time without apology
there is agreement here
on the placing of words
where they fall
i too worry over spelling which came
contagious this week
it rains and the christmas lights
were turned on in leeds the radio
says
one place i have not visited
it rains here and i am all a fiddle with
new devices
that set my brain in motion
to think of logic
when it feels like nothing
is at all
logical
when inclusion
excludes
when you sit here
when you may as well sit there
yet i make no fuss
remain the quiet one
not many flowers here now
yet i stood transfixed under the oak
as the leaves dropped down
my personal golden shower
noticed the apples are gone
all of them from the smaller
tree
i ate them
pippins
there is a severe rain warning
while the gardener is sheduled
what to do?
yes music touches the keys
fingers pound and yes one pair
is red
the other neutral
for a more serious
look
mine are bifocal
and can distort gently
if i concentrate poorly
on the centre
i have had help a while
grateful at least that i can
see
unlike some of my family
i go annually to mid wales
to walk a while, boardwalk
across the bog preferably
alone
air above, below water and earth
words to come
sometimes gentle
sometimes not
sad today
it has been a long way
this way
am sad for others