Gold You Do Not Have

How passed the night for you?

Alone but surrounded by those

Damaged, lost trapped souls

With their hard-luck sagas,

Their hard-look stares,

Peeling-paper rooms

Reached by gin-steadied stairs.

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The Winds Have Changed …

beeseeker's avatarMuck, Line and Thinker

If I were human (great lumbering brutes that they are) …

If I had human language, calculated time like a human –

Took it for granted like a human –

Then this would be

2015,

Mid-September

End of summer,

Autumn creeping in …

If I were human,

Thought as one of them,

Named things in the

Ridiculous, disinterested way they do

(Then having catalogued it, so casual dismissive

Let it go) …

I would be

Butterfly.

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I have known vast expanses of colour,

Winged, gloriously anonymously over them,

Drinking in perfumes and nectar

Gorged myself

On treasures offered

Thinking not of the past day

Never mind past lives

(Though the sugars I digest

Drive me forward, impetuous, impatient

And make fairy grasshoppers of my memories

I believe I may be dimly aware

That I existed before:

But that is so, so unimportant

And I have neither need

Nor call to…

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This Rock, Rock, Rock …

It’s a long old,

Slow old time

Comin’; limping

Kinda lop-sided

Down the dim-lit,

Low-blow alleyways

But it’s devil-bones simple

And soon flooding

My senses,

My soul.

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Eyes Full Of …

Sitting by ornate-iron table

In the owl-light garden;

Head full of distances,

Eyes full of sky.

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One a Day Will Do It

So …

Take the white one

(In truth this will have

Absolutely no effect,

Though you may feel smaller

And/or that you have

Become invisible) …

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