Bottled

That boat.

It has been out there in the bay

For near on a week now

Whatever for?

Why can’t it move?

Stuck to glass

Uncounted freight

Treasures await

Well so might souls be imagined.

And that woman

Everyday she is out there

Walking her day

Climbing her engorged frame

Up that hideous hill

In her hideous pajamas

Bulbous thigh over bulbous thigh

A new fifth in hand

Barefoot, rose nose enflamed.

My guts are sore

Waiting

It is soon to happen

Those things will fall

To start again

Self stuck within

Longing to break out

Effervescence delayed

Foreboding is a wait of fate

It is about to spill over

Shaken to the very core

Nothing released

The space is filled

The hodgy podgy dodgy

Nonsense of a being compelled

To report on nothing

Yet there it is to be revealed

When will it come free?

That boat

It is blocking my view

I want nothing between here and you
My word horizons.  Go.

The Gutful Wonders

How you going?

All good. How's you?

I'm live and kicking

All these years driving truck have built me gut 

Quack says I need to lose it

Poor heart and diabetes 

And with him carrying on

Stress!

Makes you want to jump in front of the bus 

But summers coming

The day is warming

The rain is holding 

And here you are

Another of ample girth

Waiting at this light so's we can cross

Together 

And see the beach

Love life good friend

G'day

Loves Silence

Props, lights, sound, action

First morning

A breeze tinkers and tests

The leaves a rustle 

Flow through the chimes

The herald music a backtrack

To the life song

Awakening in the trees

The greeting to all

We made it through the dark

And now our joy we will spread

This light grows warm

Driving away the cold

A stillness of experience

The heat raises passion

Long bridled

Now released

Into this first of many

Welcomes

Keys

They unlock mysteries 

Open doors of my life

Grant me transport

A portal of freedom

Highways of interest

The jingled in my pocket

Reminders of where I can enter

And protect

Enclosure of self

And now they melt away

A flat released

She has my keys to that future now

And will enjoy it I know

Keys to my employment

Security of livelihood 

An office abandoned to another

Doors previously open

Closed forever to me

Finally my car key

Transportation of freedom

Gone to another 

To find his new freedoms

No jingle now

I lift away

Lightened of the load

All wonderful memories

Life loved

Keys exchanged and changed

The keys of my heart given

To all that I love

And I land again

To build new life

A jingle in my pocket

The first given access

My home

My love

Closing Chapters

These stairs seem so small now

In childhood they were enormous

As tall as my Dad

The real one

They towered above the other

The ornery bastard

Smoked in cahoots

And gone

Thank goodness

Though his spouse leaves me cold

From so far away

She weaves her incantations

Trying to find that spell to draw me near

To her alleged allegiance of falsehood

And gone

From this country much as I

One supposes if contemplating the finish line

Of the new Chapter

As memories fade away

To internet sales schemes

Of bargain hunters and annoying scammers

And the rally around my butterflies

Beginning

Babies and young men vying for attention

Seekers of my already unconditional love

Building stock upon my ledger

It is me of course who wants to remember

To think this is not my demise

But a chapter of their lives

Where I am only gone

Just one minute

Why are you angry

I found a partner and found happiness

While not to our assumed plan

It is to the plan of They who matter

To be revel in joy of another

Even though gone

We technologically logically assimilate

Around small lit screens

And cameras

And we connect with the tools at hand

A love in the glow

Even though apart and gone

I love you all

My heart and body remains bits of each

For family is strongest

This is not a last chapter

This is a linking tome

Passed

And to future

We raise a glass

Pure joy

Well written say we to the Author

And amen

Best Before

The is so much in here unknown

Fruit and vegetables

One lasts forever

The other adjacent all mold

Milk soured as it ages

Still useful

I can bake with it

Hard tack

And bread dried and crusty

The blue green blooms

The jam turns crystal

Coloured sugar shapes

Enticements of rot

Then sudden regrowth

Of vile and ill

The honey lasts forever

So they say

And the nuts will catch up

A slow turn as the essence of oils grow acrid

Wilted leaves

Life

Misused nurture

Ignored

Then off.

It all started well

With best recipes intended

It takes effort for preservation.

Ends and Peaces

The range is amazing

Swings from highs to lows

Euphoric interludes interrupted by butterfly

Kisses from children whose love will never wane

The pride and joy of God’s life gift

Yes I shall miss this place

For founding was forged here

And begrudged stability

I love this place

And I love my people

These are ends

And there are pieces unfinished

Yet peace is found

For God stays watch over me

And has granted me new beginning

A forged partnership

My new life

And she will know me

And know my love for you all

And she will never leave me in pieces

She shares in my love with you

And knows this love must be nurtured

And I will return to you

And you will come to me

We, no ends, all peace.