priceless
price wars
just look at the price of olive oil
the price of wars
the offers that they are falling for
two for the price of one
bargain snipers in the aisles
self checkout
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no assistance is on its way
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
crisply
crisply
thought frosted leaves
to melt your heart
on a morning such as this
thinking of me
you post a chhristmas card
‘thinking of you’
a frozen tear itches
bloody frost
the river poem
the river poem
the words in a poem
stepping stones
across the river cliché
the lines in a poem
a clapper bridge
across the river simile
stanzas
the pillars of a bridge
above the torrent metaphor
a poem
is a tree
floating down the river pen
the poet
a mountain spring
the reader a sink hole
the book is a sea
is the
rain it gives
storm petrel words
blown spindrift
the beachcomber
collecting bits to burn
eyes smarting
in the smoke of a poem
written long ago
yet still smouldering
ready to burst into flame
in the reader’s drawn breath
place a finger on this or that word
feel the pulse?
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
daddy’s box
daddy’s box
a mock-leather style box
with my father’s war inside
and his army telegram
‘arriving home today’
reading all his yesterdays
for he’ll not be home today
Monday, 18 November 2024
i think ~ he thought
i think ~ he thought
i think
he thought
above the inky
estuary
as the flow
flew the words
where the boats
of thought lay
stranded on the high tide
of his drinking day
and querulous as he seemed
the lists of words were stricken
to the last perchance
that they would finally see
the estuary that flowed in me
sitting here stranded
and candled moonwise
all alone with my thoughts
the sheer brass of it
the sheer brass of it
the handled handle
how many have opened
thoughts miles away
through this mindless door
to talk to the similarly minded
whose absence in thought
is the present tense
the past and future of
all that was
can be
and will be written
before the door is closed
and locked again
mindlessly safe
that smiled simile
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