Late afternoon in Salisbury

Jake singing quietly - 

Immersed in Mobilo -

Looking up with his gentle smile -

Salisbury 

February 2026

Blue notes

Litening to blue notes, you held my hand  -

I love seeing you I said -

You held my hand more tightly -

I thought I want to tell you everything -

There were more blue notes - 

More moments of you - 

Your smile -

The warmth of your hand -

Swanage 

February 2026

Longing for sleep

Longing for sleep - 

Those deep pools - 

Those still shores.-

February 2026

Being made of air

Beguiled by tattered shreds of a poster -

Tongues of paper hanging from a wall -

By the words a day of trance -

I imagined myself dancing -

Being made of air -

Bournemouth 

February 2026

Each silent moment

A yacht on the still sea -

The reflection of the mast on the water -

The heaped flints on the sand -

Each silent moment a pearl of memory -

South Beach

Studland 

February 2026

Joyous birds

Wearing my Charborough tweed -

A lobster sashshaying to the beat of the XR drums -

Singing our way through the rainy streets -

Past Pret a Manger and Wetherspoons -

Holding up kindly flags -

Laughing with the comrades -

Passionate words like joyous birds -

Bournemouth 

February 2026

Reading The Line of Beauty

I'm reading The Line of Beauty -

I remember the house in Highgate -

The beautiful manners of my hosts -

The boy with the Eton tie -

February 2026