Word and Image

A cloud drifted lazy and grey.

Caught in its shadow a cart ambled through the hills.

Seated on a plank of hard splintery wood,

The driver mumbled a much loved song.

His horse whickered approval.

Above their position blue radiance shone bright.

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Quota

Essential regret

A spider speck

Flagrant wink

An empty sink

 Pudding

Nights respite

Alphabet delight 

Demeanour

Drifting in and around

He wore a sailor’s gown

Three lengths woven coarse

To bridle a wicked horse

Jelly

Forty five degrees

Converging to a point

Skate and glide

Tumble and fall

A whistling wind screams ruin

Quiet chokes the crush

Scramble and claw

Rive and score

Tremendous feat never a chance

Blast doubt and turn a route

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A Want of Listen

So little, so small.

Hands spread, mouth wide.

They hear the cry.

Ears prick, heads incline decline.

Wonder sparks bright.

Affectation, a pure delight.

Nothing to compare captured in the light.

Stretch Balloon

Inching forward, a steady plod.

Compensation an aggregation.

More to listen, ease the terror.

Greater to be, a must.

Eager

What is held too long to hold.

From a place.

Grinding wheels.

Arrival beckons, friction slips.

Ghosting through a point of balance.

Scale tipped, choice delivered.

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