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January 22, 2014
Knowing how to be together
and to comfortably intertwine,
is worth more than riches could ever buy
and thankfully works for me and mine.
Knowing how to stay together
when others try forcing you apart,
takes a combined effort of achievement,
worth every beat of the heart.
January 15, 2014
Two leaves that touched
then fluttered by
fell to earth
from treetops high.
Both without identity
though with finger prints,
and changing colours
of matching tints.
Perhaps there was hope
they could re-unite
with the help of a breeze
at the dead of night.
Maybe once again
their paths could cross
so as to build a life
on settled moss.
Not too long left
each knew they had
before in frost
they would be clad.
If only they could
think the same,
and shelter from
the pending rain.
What would each do
the other thought,
recalling the lessons
they had been taught.
Then, as if by magic
instinct came,
to both, at once –
each thought, the same.
They both had seen
a nettle bush,
under which to sit
to avoid a crush.
One instinctively knew,
by now, that the other,
would float straight to it
for protective cover.
And two seconds after
the first landed there,
the other arrived
and they became a pair.
written by Harriet Blackbury
January 10, 2014
When the mind (not in a good place),
tries to rationalise and the future face,
it is folly, an offered hand not to take,
as acceptance of help, is no big disgrace.
January 8, 2014
‘Shufty along’ she said
in a broad, husky dialect.
So I did as she asked
out of polite respect.
She then plonked herself
down with her old tatty bags,
and with a toothless smile,
asked if I had any fags.
‘I’m afraid not’ I said,
‘I have never smoked’;
She looked the type to
thump folks, if provoked.
I felt her strong glare,
so stared straight ahead,
hoping the conversation
could now be dead.
But then I softened,
when I needed to stand,
and placed some money
into her hand.
Thinking ‘there, but for
the grace of god, go I’.
I watched her smile return,
as I bade her goodbye.
When I arrived at the office,
my tale started a debate.
Some said I was crackers,
and me did berate.
Others said she would blow it
on ciggies and wine.
My reply to most of them was,
‘so when you do that, it’s fine?
A few fell silent,
they knew who they were.
It’s not just the down and outs
who excessive habits share.
The conversation got heated,
a guy said ‘You’ll see her tomorrow’,
‘I bet she gets on the same bus.
You’ve just bought yourself sorrow’.
There’s no right and wrong answer,
to what I did, that seems clear.
We all just go with our gut feeling,
when those moments appear.
January 4, 2014
Two lonely, only children,
each in their bedrooms, unable to sleep.
Both standing at their windows,
opposite each other, a vigil to keep.
Each night around eight thirty,
these two young faces appeared,
taking comfort in each other,
from a world of isolation they feared.
First one would give a gentle wave,
from his side of the back street,
followed by a wave from her,
standing on oilcloth in her bare feet.
Their expressions not distinguishable,
only outlined silhouette shapes,
could be recognised by moonlight,
from inside their hanging drapes.
This became a nightly ritual,
each shivering in dressing gowns,
until, when comforted by visual contact,
they retreated under their eiderdowns.
December 26, 2013
In everyday parlance,
he said very little.
His questions were short,
his reply often brittle.
In meetings he spoke
with his eyes on the ground.
But you felt in your gut,
he would turn things around.
His strength, his control,
his willingness to listen.
Then translate in a second,
words others couldn’t christen.
His success was well earned.
Some read, was his story.
It came right in the end.
He was surrounded by glory.
In the dead of night, with a silent creep,
an android came to take a peep.
I felt a fool just lying there.
I dare not look, nor did I stir.
I didn’t feel passion, or desire,
but was electrified as any live wire.
Under the sheet, in my private land,
I felt it softly take my hand.
And feeling trapped in my own space,
I felt it gently stroke my face.
And then as quickly, as it came,
It bade farewell and spoke my name.
December 19, 2013
The hurtfulness of truth, when
exercised in honest expression.
The silence of the tongue,
too late, for pardoned regression.
The withholding of needed words,
when agony would run too deep.
Are taken to the timely grave,
for the longest sleep.
The subject in question never put to bed.
Opinions not vented, in case misconstrued.
The truth, oh the mighty truth,
can sometimes be so damned rude.
December 18, 2013
Festive shadows
of Christmas past,
and romance, never
meant to last.
Nights of merriment
and wild high jinx.
Thoughts drifting back
to the party minx.
When Bohemian Rhapsody
rang out everywhere,
and the only place,
to be, was there.
When fun and laughter
was without restrain,
and never actions,
to defend or explain.
Life seemed so happy
and intoxicatingly carefree.
With the new kid in town
on top of the tree.
Then at the end of the night,
the tempo slowed for us too,
when Stevie Wonder just called
to say ‘I love you’.
December 16, 2013
A friend as old
as time receded.
In the background,
but there when needed.
A friend, who knows you
better than you.
A sounding board,
an opposing view.
Who leaves you with
an alternative plan,
so delicately put,
as gentle as they can,
but smart enough
to sit in your brain,
making sense of that,
which you do complain.
A friend to calm
and pacify.
Making less your madness
and justify.
A friend brave enough
to say you’re wrong,
after listening to
your tale so long.
A friend to back off
when not needed.
To give you space
with new ideas seeded.
A friend, a pillar
of your life.
A building block,
in times of strife.
A friend, a bloody
nuisance too,
when old stubborn you,
can’t see their point of view.