Your gift

Your gift was your smile -

Your words -

The way you held me -

The glimpse again I had of you -

The water pearling on your skin -

Swanage 

April 2026

Driving the heavy Cavalier

I've just read London Fields -

I've seen the moon red as blood -

The low sun in the sky -

Dripping its light -

I've drunk porno in The Golgotha -

I've heard Keith say you don't never show disrespect to the darts -

I've driven the heavy Cavalier -

April 2026

Jake in The Boston Tea Party

Jake in The Boston Tea Party -

Amongst the young Salisbury creatives -

The courtly tweed -

The dark panelling -

The knotted beams -

Snapping the Mobilo pieces together -

Dreaming of Hotwheels -

Salisbury 

April 2026 

That moment

Looking up -

Dizzy with scent of cut grass -

Walking barefoot -

Seeing apple blossom on the tree -

Remembering you kissing my cheek -

The shape of your neck -

Your breath against my face -

Wanting that moment never to end -

Swanage

2026 

After the jazz

After the jazz - 

The yearning clarinet -

Lizzie -

Tipsy with the red - 

Zinging with mischief -

Swanage 

April 2026

 

Primroses

Walking to Highwood we saw primroses -

Each pale flower like words spoken in tenderness -

Remembered years afterwards -

The April sun was low in the sky -

Young trees cast slim shadows -

Later, the moon would fill the sky -

Highwood 

April 2026

Invisible voices of joy

We had two teas from Joe's -

Anne still zinging from the sea -

Easter visitors unfurled deckchairs -

A greyhound tiptoed through the waves -

We'd walked on Nine Barrows Down -

It was Easter Sunday -

Skylarks were invisible voices of joy -

Studland

April 2026