Un café e un limoncello

A coffee and a limoncello

Dopo il pranzo

After dinner

Un café e un limoncello

I am captivated by ritual

For me food and drink

Have to mean something

Dopo il riso , dopo il vino

Per piacere, please

Un café e un limoncello

After the rice, after the wine

There’s plenty of time

For a ...

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YOGA NIDA

(Sleep Yoga)

Lay me down flat

Yoga Nida

Let the tension

Flow slowly out

Here on the floor

Yoga Nida

Let me be still

Peaceful and warm

Sinking, sleeping

Yoga Nida

Velvet blackness

Surrounding me

The guru’s words

Yoga Nida

I drift away

My pain is gone

Lay me down here

Yoga Nid...

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FIRST CUT

The first cut is brutal

always deep with cold

blade tearing into timber

opening a pathway

for subtler strokes

slicing with sharpness,

carving strongly,

the base for intricate designs

on blocks gripped tightly

in the jaws of steel vices

The last cut is gentler

a loving after thought

adding a signature

to shaped and sha...

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SEPTEMBER

September arrived quietly

With the morning train

Catching us unawares

Still tanned from summer

Smoking in the goods yard

Discussing holidays

Reading of redundancies

A radio humming news

Of road accidents

And unexplained murders

In distant countries

Celebrity indiscretions

Distracting our attention

From gathering cloud...

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Beauty yet resides in redbrick

Surrounded by railings

Charm in coloured tiles

A touch of stained glass

Roofs that sag still uplift

Spirits made melancholy

By the grimness of concrete

Rusting window frames

Though difficult to open

Allow freshness to enter

Not so in the stale chambers

Of breeze block and plastic

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