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La Guérite, Sainte Marguérite 

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Cool Winter in high summer! I caught your gaze through rosé-d glass.

Held entranced, I heard a whisper as you passed:

Come and dance,

Come and dance with me!

Come and play,

Come and play with me.

Noblesse obliged, I turned around, but this Angel could not be found.

Come and dance,

Come and dance with me!

The first glance

In this game of chance with me.

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Blonde Grenache- so rock and Rolle! You left a trail of pastel chill,

And me beyond the pale of resistance still.

Come and dance,

Come and dance with me!

Come and play,

Come and play with me!

Seek and search, I whirled around,

But this Angel would not be found.

Come and dance,

Come and dance with me!

Just a glance,

In a trance with me!

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Palm Syrah robed in silver pink, you laid a fragrant berry mist,

And trapped, I sensed rebooted tastebuds kissed.

Come and dance,

Come and dance with me!

Come and play,

Come and play with me!

Presence sensing, I turned around,

But this Angel could not be found.

Come and dance,

Come and dance with me!

There’s just a chance maybe,

This ghost will let you follow me……

A Love Song to a Merry Wife of Waitrose*

04 Thursday Oct 2018

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Entranced by the elegance

I found amidst these shelves

I stand burrated:

Your beet-rooted servant

Who contemplates the promise

Of a kimchi smile.

Let’s picnic now!

I long to dance the tapenade with you

Clink glasses at the golden hour

Sip Miraval

And partner with appropriate toasts,

Beachcomb for salt and seaweed

To crust and bake our love;

Let’s merge like tagliata

And rocket parmesan,

Before the blowtorch sun retreats

To burn the sugar and so hide

The cream of deep affection.

 

 

*From the collection: Brand New Poetry

 

Poems of Place: At the M&S Café, Walsall

03 Sunday Jun 2018

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Poems of Place: At the M&S Café, Walsall

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Sitting amidst the rich and zingy,

Zesty feast of flavours that is

The Marks and Spencer Café,

I think of you and me.

 

And as I scan my ebbing latte’s tidal art

I think of places in this town, our town

Where post-school, we met

To court, hold hands and play.

 

I wrote you soppy poems,

Buttressed with pilfered fragments, yet in homage,

Treasured the hour before our haven closed

And the moment came to walk you to the ‘bus

 

Back in town today, ours – but not,

I’m close to where we sat and laughed

Not knowing nor imagining then,

The rich and zingy zesty love we’d share.

 

 June 2nd, 2018