Old Soldiers Never Die

they simply fade… into acronyms. Remembering the last patrol member (but one), our leading scout (military), who died recently           Ambling sadly homewards after a long walk in wilderness, bend turning car lights beaming out  from some distant valley,         momentarily blinded the eye.         On many a mission, nightfall […]

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Beyond the lychgate

Reading the name of someone known. Pic.: St Marys Church, Beddington, Surrey   She’s named on a small tag on the low edge of a yew tree grove, long from the stone temple, where white crosses form uniform rows; she had died peacefully, when ready, in control, and contented. For others with sanctioned graves, it was too late; doomed, before […]

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Meeting in darkness

In the darkness of your eyes it’s easy to commit oneself and get completely lost in the dissolving magic of enchantment, since bewitched by love you are not only all at sea but even all beside yourself, tongue-tied with arms tied also with your hands behind your back, your mouth and senses sealed, while all that you can do and […]

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Closing Act

made the marriage and the ceiling!   A pillow feather soaring high on gentle breath assuaged in the after-draught before descending onto becalmed stillness In that nuptial bed soft and warm as goose down he had been pre-emptively conceived Inspired to expire with purposeful aspiration life ended as it began appropriating legitimate opportunity   Goth:2021  

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Ignorant knowledge

We’re all travellers looking for a permanent space in the world, our caravan. If this had a perduring imprint in our minds right from our childhood days in schools, we’d have peace in this moving place. Why schools!  Well, since they are the ones that churn out the indignant fools. The only confrontation the world faces today is education. Then […]

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Halloween Unmasked

Pumpkin pie anyone? Buttericks (est. 1913) masquerade shop here, have experienced some bumper years now, who needs dead ghouls, even outside of America?   Teeming with living dead at last year’s nocturnal vigil, head torches lit up Laughing-Clowns-With- Movable-Mouths. Six struck by cars teeth flashing incandescently! The year before, a whole campaign trail of America-First-Trumps* were warned for grabbing Clinton crutches, and […]

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