Time machine

Italian cafe
Glass tables and strong coffee
50s atmosphere


28/7/11

Changeable

Two days of the heat
Is enough to remind us
Why we don't like it

27/7/11

The waters of Lethe

Grasshoppers kvetching
River runs slow and clear
Casts a drowsy spell


26/7/11

Still got it

A shop girl looks up
Steadily she meets my gaze
Then smiles a welcome


26/7/11

Gifts

The Prodigal Son
All callow thoughtlessness
Outshone his brother

Unfair or unwise
To favour the miscreant
Yet it's instinctive

We value others
For the love that we give them
Not the love returned


25/7/11

Distance

Retreating ridgelines,
Increasingly hazy, fade
Into the dusk sky

20/7/11

The parable of twilight

Midges cloud the air,

Their frantic activity

Getting them nowhere

30/6/11

Retreat

In the chapel there

Is respite: the still centre

Of the turning world

I may not believe

In God but I still can seek

The gift of His grace

All will be well, and

All will be well; all manner

Of things will be well

Just routine

We think that we have

Habits; actually habits

Have us, usually

30/6/11

Intimacy

Outside darkness falls;

We talk softly of moments

Of intense feeling

30/6/11