Bright birds in a dark sky

I gazed at the iconic vinyl - 

Comrades wore keffiyehs - 

Soon there would be poetry -

Our words bright birds in a dark sky -

Our tongues bitter -

Yet sweet with love -

Dorchester 

February 2024

Hanging Rock

Their eyes seeing unseen things - 

Dreamtime takes them -

Bronze armoured insects watch them leave this world -

February 2024

Dorset

 

Last golden sunlight

Last golden sunlight on the water -

The lichened trees - 

Remembering reading Apollinaire -

Farewell, farewell -

Beheaded sun -

East Stoke

Dorset 

February 2024

After reading The Man in the High Castle

I'll throw the yarrow sticks -

Pick up three worn coins -

Haunted by those last mysterious pages - 

The gentle Mr Tagomi seeing cars like big

brutal crushers -

The Oracle writing the book - 

Chung Fu -

Inner Truth - 

Dorset

February 2024

To know, fully, the meaning of the word, komorebi

Here was a way to live the rest of my life - 

For each moment to be wonderful -

To see sunlight, leaking through the trees -

To know, fully, the meaning of the word, komorebi -

To see the moon whilst standing at the bottom of a dry well - 

To ease my heart -

To know next time is next time -

Now is now -

Dorset

February 2024

Mustafa singing

His songs called to my heart - 

They filled my eyes with tears and wonder - 

I breathed the air where he was born -

I felt the weight of his longing and sorrow -

Dorchester 

February 2024

Coffee in Armans

A violin concerto on the radio in Armans -

An exquisite almond croissant - 

Bright lamps hanging from the ceiling -

Jake dreaming -

Rain falling - 

Armans

Salisbury 

February 2024