Tuesday, 21 December 2021

#720 - every day we are more beautiful

 


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every day we are more beautiful

for Jane Skelton and all the sexy-genarians

on the solstice

 

further in the skin

more of a map

more in the day

less mirror

 

and in the weather of such lives

at rigging

even in chairs

we climb

to see the seas

 

knees wobbly, knocks here, there

 

on the window now, giant bug

as never seen before

I mean to say that it’s taken till now

no knowing next

 

some machines are to slow us down

we are hard to believe

 

world always arriving

breezes and breakfast

 

every day closer to beautiful death

we are thrown to the questions again

 

it’s everyone’s way to see

sunlight on my soup

breathe in!

 

such days as towards

all the young have never learned

the every day more damage

still

where the forest falls

someone’s heard

to say ‘stop’

 

here’s the thing will kill me

say ‘welcome, old friend’

 

every day briefer, now disembittered

as beautiful, as far

from beginning

 

where I’m hanging my hat so head

pin up my heart and they mock

too late!

 

of course I will prime it again

 

yes, here, there, grown over

 

most won’t see

or remember

 

bent?

no, let’s say fitted

shaped with

fresh air

crystal in the stream

 

we’re sweeping out the stables

we’re filing Miss Haversham’s webs

 

a lovely lump

a limp

 

there’s no eternity would do

once you’ve cooked up soul

 

it’s how animal we are

run all these risks to believe

it’s all there is to

as if mere presence were more

 

it doesn’t matter how far you go

you’ll never catch up with yourself

 

it’s giving

and all we have

not a single god to thank

 

it’s by powers of imagination

no other way to be here







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