Monday, 19 July 2010

2010-07-22 gogyohka




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the
lift
waits
for
no-one

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looked
for
her shadow
but
it was never there

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grizzly bear
imprisoned
within oak floorboards
his eyes
sad

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against
the wall
shadows
enacting
their life

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hollow
mocking
laughter
the white mask
immobile

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grotesque
white
mask
the cut out eyes
black and deep

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the
masked
ball
refused
just the one guest

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black shadow
on
the wall
I reach out
put my hand through it

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hole
in
the night sky
black
unfathomably deep

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the
black
musical notes
all
in a heaped jumble

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her face sad
her identity taken
she looks straight at you
accusing
but yet her face blank

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as she walked over
the
old stone grey bridge
her shadow stopped
and then it caught up with her

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silently hiding
in the far corner
of the room
the
shadow

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the radio cackled
a voice
grew clearer
on its
ghostly wavelength

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behind
glass window
trapped
in
a vortex of time

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the photo
so faded
her face
growing fainter
by the second

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dropped
an
illusion
it
was very heavy

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the wolf's
luminous eyes
staring out
of
the powerful black darkness

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bewitching hour
fast approaching
must get to bed and close my eyes
before
they start coming out of the walls

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twilight
draws
her curtains
pins them
with a star

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twilight falls
velvet blue sky
my willow
paints
moths

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daisy chains
interlinking
the vast blue field of sky
in the vaults of heaven
stars twinkling

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night time's
musky
scent
trembling
summer stars

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she
emerged
from darkness
had seen more
than she ought to have seen

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unknown
unwanted
not acknowledged
but
still living

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night time fell
concentric circles
going in opposite directions
descending
lower and lower

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their
death
had
only
been suspended

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the
tenuous
connection
suddenly
it's gone

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all
the
darkness
sucked
in

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my reflection
in the mirror
stares back at me
then she turns
and walks away

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the
mirror reflection
stared back
and laughed
incredulously

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the storyteller
looked around
he showed the audience a mirror
they
could see no one in it

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of this world
yet
not of it
thin dividing line
between the two

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staircases
upwards and upwards
some carpeted and some not
reaching the
uppermost tower of the mind

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a knight of old
charging
with his horse and lance
a
steam train

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raven
flying between worlds
carrying black runestone
drops it
in the river

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the story has already happened
past present and future
are but in one moment
spread
for eternity

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night after night
he stepped and side stepped
his rifle at the ready
he fired it
only the once

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sleeping
under the stars
cool fresh summer night
the dog's hot breath
on my cheek

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Woke up last night
my bedroom door to garden is open
I go outside...
I wake up in the morning
that door is closed

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brilliant smile yet no home
the night will flower
blue
from concrete
dirt

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under
the
silence of the moon
I
watch

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standing by the pool
the moon's reflection
twinkles
my shadow
puts an arm round my shoulder

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only
thing that remained
was footprints in the grass
daybreak
erased all traces

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soothing
the
rich velvet texture
of
sunset

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sitting on the beach
watching
the sunset
glowing red
into purple

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grey-green with morning sun
by noon
she is emerald
but in the evening
she cloaks herself with purple

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wandering
along
the shores of life
things given, things never given
things that should have been given

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the sea
murmering
whispering
her
name

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a flare of red
across
the night time sea
then
she is gone

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bleached
seagull bones
on the shore
a tarred piece of rope
and a feather

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swimming
in the deep blue sea
I swam far out
you
got worried

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white
foaming
wavelets
erasing
all trace of footprints

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the child
found a fossil
in the cliffs
she put it in a red box
saved it forever

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child followed the sea out
and
she tried to catch up with it
the tide turned
child had to run very fast

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dog and I
walk along the beach in silence
the dog is spooked
she runs back to car
the sea is calling my name

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the tide
crept insiduously in
over hard rippled sand
a mist
descended all around

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bare feet on the sand
long dress flowing
dancing
that summer
long ago


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I stood here
long ago
wild and free
barefoot
on the sandy shore

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needles
of turquoise
flitting through the reeds
cotillion
of dragonflies

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the circle
of the eye
stares
at
the circle of the horizon

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viewing through walls
keeping an eye
on the children
keeping
them safe

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the magic carpet
three children
journeyed
far
came back wide-eyed

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cricket on the village green
the sky clear blue
strawberries and cream
under
the oak tree

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summer tea party
in the land of Wales
a magical place
of stories
and legends

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cricket on the village green
the sky clear blue
strawberries and cream
under
the oak tree

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slipping
through the fabric of time
she travelled
free
as the wind

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the
willow
painting
the sky
bright blue

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she
wove
the tales
they believed
then it came true...

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they
walked up streams
together
she took care
of her little brother

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Pendragon castle
early morning
summer mists
watching
the past

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walking round the stones
barefoot
on damp dewed grass
hands on the stones
feeling the past

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the
dragon
sleeps
under the hills
waiting

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man digs up
all of his dandelions
he is very pleased with himself
from next door
parachutes in...

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two clouds
racing
'cross the sky
each
with three little dots behind them

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in
our wanderings
we took books
now
we take the internet

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books
our
companions
converse
with those within

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internet
our
companion
converse
with twitter

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hoverfly
studies me carefully
then darts away
a
dronefly

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the traveller and I
we walked the same path
for awhile
then
our ways parted

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crossing the bleak, dark moor
a wam hand
rests on my shoulder
I turn
but there is no one there

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a fallen white petal
flies upwards
re attaching itself to a clematis flower
a
butterfly

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butterfly flew
through shafts of sunlight
piercing trees
its wings
shimmering

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perfect
scented
pink roses
elongated half circles cut out of rose leaves
by leaf- cutting bee

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a leaf-cutting bee
carrying leaf bigger than itself
stops
to rest
on every leaf

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a chapel
its doors always open
to anyone
windows
of honesty pod

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honesty pods
drop
to the ground
coins
of silver

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the
restless
heart
a scrap of paper tossed
by the wind

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it was summer
when
I first met you
the sky was blue
you bought a bag of bright oranges

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in summer
we did cartwheels
across the grass
my brother
and I

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summer skies
were
the intensest of blue
in
my childhood

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I
ran away
one summer's day
the sky was blue
no clouds to be seen

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since
you
went away
the paintings
remained unpainted


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my dog
asleep
in my bed
repeatedly
kicks me

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black sleek cat
with
pointy ears
surveying
through slitted eyes

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cat sits
in front of door
I open it
cat looks at me disdainfully
and walks away

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the
willow
branches
busily stroking
sleeping cat on garage roof

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anight of rain
bright sun greeting the new day
rainbows
dancing
on the white cat

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soporific day
cats fast asleep
on garage roof
goshawk appears overhead
four bullets shoot in through cat flap

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