Love’s flush with colour’s palette

dusted red with passion

it chases purple sunrise,

finds deep fuchsia pulsing

through my heart & when

we’re apart, yellow sorrow rises up

to stop me sinking.

Love comes in varied guises

changes madly day to day:

I see the starlight in your eyes

& wonder where it stems from.

Love makes no sense to others

what you believe you see in me

it’s a dream a fantasy, I’m hidden.

Love’s everywhere & nowhere

it spans the vastness of the earth

it animates four letter word

the word we live & die for.

The dead can’t talk to us

tell us of their fear,

your love is waiting

at the field gate

head in hands

waiting for your voice.

You can’t help her

hold her in the night

whisper words you want

to say, you meant to say

back then that fateful day

the last day you were together.

The dead can’t speak

tell us how the light

went out

the time they’re owed:

we watch sunrise pink

over hill & dale

listen to the lonely cry

where are you now,

where are you now?

Why did you go

& leave me?

Red sky @ dawn

high V of geese

autumn tinges gold & red

the horses grow their

winter coats & the season

takes its final breath.

Night sky high as blackest soot

membrane of those distant stars

 Jupiter huge below the moon

& the milky way our path to

dusty death: & then there’s here

there’s now & how we watch

time float by. A stretch a sneeze

a stranger’s smile bequeathed

not promised till the hour

we rest our heads & follow.