‘turning right …’

Tags

'scape, 1982, 4*, flagpole, moon, Southsea, supermarket, time, walking, windows

 

 

 

                                                                 turning right
                                                                 the moon
                                                                 appeared from a window
                                                                 above the supermarket

                                                                 making for the flagpole

                                                                 six o’clock

 

 

 

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part of >>> Portsmouth – Southsea
moon & & Southsea & walking wormholes: ‘left now …’
time wormhole: winter / weeks
windows wormhole: ‘the dining room …’

 

‘left now …’

Tags

'scape, 1982, 4*, faces, moon, newsagent, Southsea, streets, walking

 

 

 

                       left now
                       the moon
                       retreats backwards along
                       the street
                       distracted

                       from the newsagent
                       the smiling Chinese face
                       of an old friend who is

                       still young

 

 

 

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part of >>> Portsmouth – Southsea
faces wormhole: clown
moon & Southsea & streets & walking wormholes: ‘turning into …’

 

‘turning into …’

Tags

'scape, 1982, 4*, moon, red, Southsea, streetlight, streets, walking

 

 

 

                                              turning into
                                              the high street

                                              the moon glided
                                              over the streetlamps

                                              and in the opposite
                                              side street

                                              red car lights
                                              flashed quietly

 

 

 

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part of >>> Portsmouth – Southsea
moon & Southsea & walking wormhole: the moon
red wormhole: ‘after …’
streets wormhole: ‘with delight …’
streetlight wormhole: ‘at night …’

 

the moon

Tags

'scape, 1982, 4*, clouds, life, moon, Southsea, walking, writing

 

 

 

                                             the moon

                                the clouds have
                                covered it now
                                in my baggy
                                trousers I realise

                                I write better poems
                                than before I
                                was married

 

 

 

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part of >>> Portsmouth – Southsea
clouds wormhole: ‘small town busy …’
life wormhole: lifetime
moon wormhole: ‘between the moon …’
Southsea & walking wormhole: ‘with delight …’
writing wormhole: wanting to be loved

 

‘with delight …’

Tags

'scape, 1982, 4*, child, mother, passing, Southsea, streets, voices, walking, walls

 

 

 

                                     with delight
                the child walked along
                the wall at his
                mother’s shoulder

                behind me they continued,
                “mu-uummm…”

 

 

 

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part of >>> Portsmouth – Southsea
child wormhole: open window
mother wormhole: truck
passing wormhole: dawn
Southsea wormhole: blue and red
streets wormhole: midnight
voices wormhole: ‘big cheeky smile …’
walking wormhole: ‘between the moon …’
walls wormhole: ‘the red and white bollard …’

 

blue and red

Tags

'scape, 1982, 4*, blue, breeze, red, silence, sky, Southsea, trees, windows

 

 

 

                                                              blue and red

various lengths of tubular bells hang from a cheap roof-pagoda over the sunny rooftops.   There is a breeze, treetops sway but the bells never
                                    quite
                                                      touch

 

 

 

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blue & Southsea & trees wormhole: pink and blue
breeze wormhole: summertime
red wormhole: Midnight Conference
silence wormhole: burgundy
sky wormhole: morning in / Shrewsbury Park / reading POW comics
windows wormhole: through / the window

 

pink and blue

Tags

'scape, 1982, 6*, bird, blue, breeze, girl, muse, passing, pink, portrait, roads, Southsea, trees

 

 

 

                               pink and blue

                     on the moist
                     outmost branch –
                               lurching
          up and down –
                               the small
                     bird
                     pecked –
          in the breeze –
                     the few
                     remaining
                     blossoms

                               at length

                     on the road
                               passed
                     a white-faced girl
                     on a bicycle
                               no hands
                     zipped parka
                     whistling

 

 

 

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blue wormhole: Batworld
breeze wormhole: ‘the imperial buildings of Europe …’
girl & muse & passing & Southsea wormhole: after the rain / flowers like / cupcakes
pink wormhole: Batworld
roads wormhole: I’m sorry but
trees wormhole: morning in / Shrewsbury Park / reading POW comics

 

after the rain / flowers like / cupcakes

Tags

1982, 6*, blue, girl, lemon, muse, orange, passing, portrait, Southsea

 

 

 

                                                      after the rain
                                                      flowers like
                                                      cupcakes

                           the girl in a blue parka
                           walked slowly down the street
                           twirling the lead

                           the small dog
                           trotted into
                           every driveway
                           of each house and
                           was called out
                           each time
                           by the girl
                           who wasn’t
                           watching

                           anyway

 

 

 

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blue wormhole: Woolwich
girl wormhole: I’m sorry but
muse wormhole: ‘I asked my Nan to write down her memoirs …’
orange wormhole: ‘in the morning …’
passing wormhole: safe