I sat on the train on the way home,
a way too young Goth teen in lace,
with carefully painted arched eyebrows,
sat on the seat opposite me and, just to
the right, as I wrote: “Try being serious,
after licking and sucking at a fruity lollipop,
all the way to its stick, on a sunny, quite
warm blue-sky sorta day… it’s just not possible.”
Walk-In-The-Wood Revisited
Walking back from the hospital
I went deep in the wood, to see
if I could find where I had been
twenty years, or so, before: yet
to do so had been one heckuvva
chore, as I pushed through fallen
trees and tangled branches, then
crossed a stream, taken a photo
and gone back to the intended
path and, under a lichen covered
trunk, to stand midst the smallest
of clearings, as I realized there
and then, that to get any further
I’d need a bulldozer, as so much
changed, in twenty years, plus.
So I entered and crossed a field
and fell onto nettles with my right
hand, before rising to follow the
road toward home, beneath a blue
-sky, never quite alone as I had
listened to the bird-song, that
drew me to a well-cared for
stretch of water, where I saw a
bird, which was the smallest
I had ever seen, clinging to the
top of a bull-rush; and then after
making a short film I crossed
back to the roadway to, continue
walking back, from the hospital.
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Quite a journey!
lucky for you nothing else was broken but your fall :0
Walking through Liverpool
I felt like a fool as I was the
only one not wearing green
if you know I mean?
There were those in short
skirts and, even shorter skirts,
with more flesh on display, than
you’d find in your butchers window.
There were Guiness hats, dwarfin
those wearing them, in black ‘n white,
if’n you know what you mean?
An on the radio, before I left the ‘ouse
Patrick Kilty says to Missus Butler’s
Eldest son, that if you have to ask what
is the Craic? You’ll never understand.
And on the station, on the tube, I saw
a fellow in white and green, dressed
like a Saint, white luminous large
plastic yellow glasses and, as the train
arrived, I wondered what to say about
the way of St. Paddy’s day, or perhaps
I should say, Saint Patrick’s Day, that
is if you know what I mean?
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*giggles* This was awsome :P
what a cute little diddy I love this one. I needed a hug today but Here I find a smile, that's even better.
On a sunny spring blue-sky day, I followed the way of my day, as I left my home and, wearing my thigh-length leather with a multitude of pockets and my black leather cap and John Lennon glasses that can pass as shades; and I’d got the bus, then train and bus back to town yet again, after I walked down by Central Park Liscard, to post a birthday card, inside a light purple envelope for my friend, with two kids and a job; and I’d like to think that she might know what feeling went into the act, as I’d had inside the card a smaller envelope, with a largish stone on an elegant gold coloured chain inside it: the last piece of jewellery left from that which late Mother possessed, that I liked.
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Oh my goodness Neil...
Amazing. Simply amazing! So very beautiful...
I really liked this! Thank you for sharing it with the world :)
Touching and descriptive :)
nice my frind
such the way with words :)
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