Saturday, 2 October 2021
Diana
Great swollen days,
without your care,
makes me want to say,
yes, go on, watch me dance,
you know about mares,
you've never had to ask,
you smoke without craving,
drink fino from a chair,
like you’re some player,
white faced dinero, dark glasses,
you breathe thin air,
shout mas vino, tapitas, clap,
are my legs your craze,
this tail end of an affair,
music drifts away,
no wonder you should chance,
to live without prayer,
like being tasked,
with no love to spare !!!
Friday, 1 October 2021
Cresta
Standing by the beach,
she says don't leave me,
I’m only crying for the sea,
can anyone retain,
that unforgiving need,
when you've derailed a train,
I say take it easy,
what do you want me to be,
she shrugs at our destiny,
dunes shift in the evening,
in her eyes a steel,
she says 'you’ll bleed',
I hum an innocent refrain,
how to enjoy freedom,
when no promise is made,
a life of dull marriage,
is not for me,
pretend they don’t matter
the could have beens?.
Thursday, 30 September 2021
Carrie
You'd gamble anything,
your daughter says,
including unforgiven fights,
draining you like a drain,
the times she swayed,
in falling snow or rain,
within your blue eyes,
could you ever retain,,
the time she most prized,
letting go as you came in,
was she always that way,
smoking her Capstan,
make her smile anyway,
chuckle on her Saint’s day,
dissolve each loss with gain,
unhook the gas ring,
make tea on the range,
dogged by such things
is no one to blame ?
Clara
You stroll off the meter,
but you don't see me,
dressed for the cashmere theatre,
blow upon your polished fingers,
at the Salon du Te,'
hear policemen whisper,
discuss suitable places to be,
sip Darjeeling,
no need turn on your heel,
guaranteed protection,
like a bushel of wheat,
they whisper Blondie’s singing,
and all of those parties,
you danced by the sea,
a desperate fleur de Lys,
did waves rise in rhythm,
do you remember our street,
where you skipped in rayon,
twisted to their screams.
Tuesday, 28 September 2021
Catherine
We dream of justice,
defeated, tossed away,
images of a love resistant,
do we think of Solomon,
who never sought that reign,
what were we thinking of,
will our insolence,
our trawled remains,
further enslave and imprison us,
calendars we see only one,
it stays on a single page
shows how far we’ve come,
uncertain questions,
lie unborn every day,
none accepted,
cigarettes smoked and gone,
try to have our say,
time frittered on any son,
our saving gain.
Baila
Many an ice cold Diva,
makes no sense to me,
when they sing Ave Maria,
your face pale as the tide,
a poem makes me weep,
dream and ask why,
can we ever make history,
each morning released,
like love we gave to nights,
to seamen and Cafe's,
stunned beneath the lights,
your laughter a delight,
like sunshine on the breeze,
a taste of the sea,
in circumstances we believe,
but who makes us decide,
demand our own scene,
scream out only for Bollinger
like angels released ?
Sunday, 26 September 2021
Billie
Don’t talk to me and pause,
give one of those sighs,
I've seen these looks,
it's where I live now,
not your own interesting life,
God you’re slow,
while you make good causes,
I was barely alive,
all those conditional clauses,
Recife, Manous, Matta Grosso,
Is where you expect to die,
and you want me to follow,
here’s where a story ends,
about the way you cried,
when I needed comfort,
sun kissed beaches skin glow
bars, boys, warm easy delights,
you course is always below,
carried on the tide.
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