Miss Cadogan’s Room

Some smells just do it don’t they.?
The limbic whoosh  that picks you
Up so fast and drops you back in time, so true
And real, it barely feels like memory.
Her room of course had not remained the same.
But one faint trail of polish,  chalk and, books
Structured my lost geometries of chairs, the board and desks,
Held me tight in symmetries familia...

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                             My Shooting Stars By Alice Age 6

'In our last session, you said you couldn’t say  

Just how it made you feel'.

Three long  years on, still mistaking my frown as hesitance,

She consulted notes. A  professional , tiny, half-smiled prompt.

 I 'd drifted off and wasn’t sure how long my absence

Lasted, The face I’d drafted on, assuring

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                     Doubting Thomas

A Sunday morning of lassitude and sooty rain,

Found me pushing open the bookshop door, piqued and sniffling

At the  bastard bastard train

That had not appeared grinding

To a stuttering halt at Platform Four

To take me home.  Incurious, determined to ignore

The gracious smile of Mr Owen (Prop)

I reset my face to jus...

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                           You Too can Have a Body Like Mine

As Barry, his Personal Induction Coach, enthused about

The lats and abs, the pecs and delts, that ugly

Awkward lexicon of vanity,

Frank could only think of Jan’s parting words that

Made a more familiar sense.  ‘ You are Hopeless. Lazy,

Indolent.’  The first two words he knew, but ‘Indolent’?

Just clos...

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                                The Real Thing

Some people can finesse the pain of  parting with an ease

So consummate, they manage, somehow, to please

Almost everyone. Not me, memories and dread

Stalled my words, as my penitent caress turned

Her pliant face to mine. Oh help me here somehow

Find the words, because good god she deserves to know

It’s over. A deta...

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                                   GSOH

Find Love! the  DreamMatch™ site enticed

And the girls in Sales had twittered and cajoled

Oh Derek it will be so much fun

To meet that Soulmate, that Special One. 

Oh Good God Derek ! Forget the cost!

And find Sunsets and Laughter, The Smile You’ve Lost.

The Woman of his Dreams  he guessed did not come cheap.

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                                      Merry Christmas Archie

I just don’t know what’s got into you. The Christmas Office Party?  

Contempt suspended, as exhaling smoke towards his face,

She sniffed, her mouth a coalesce of distaste

And scorn. Oh god! You’re wearing aftershave!.

You’re Fifty Two for heavens sake and look absurd in that                       

Shapele...

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