#1096 - two poems to welcome the year

 

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two poems to welcome the year

 

 

poem for the un-here

 

for peace

for love

for all that

 

go on as we

wish to begin

 

ticks over into this then

where we might have slept on

                               and some did

 

but for the persistent

time is a policeman to move us along

asks ‘where are you off to?

‘where are you from?’

 

out of the backward abysm

roll over into

 

think of the gone now too

how I will go down where the wallabies lie

 

there’s deep well of time to be

 

set sail by bed or bathtub

 

I dreamt a fold of paper’s flight

it was as real as we

read on

 

eyes always into the infinite

just happens to be where we are

 

now in next year

which was tomorrow

here we are today

 

go gently

gently go

 

portent

for dream diary

 

it was just out of the dell

upslope

on the way to the studio

edge of the clearing

 

this piece of paper

rubbish

but flat

still dry despite the weather

 

one might have bent to enquire

 

but it folded itself up into wings

just like that, an instant

large insect, little bird

and it took off on its way

 

I just wanted to tell you that

 

most natural thing in the world