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Sometime in November I set myself the task of writing a haiku, or at least a short poem, each morning after meditation, and before breakfast. I managed it most mornings, and it was quite interesting to look through them again....
November 10, 2007: Haiku
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My room is silent Knocking round the house downstairs Your October cough Norman Lamont 7/11/07
November 10, 2007: Rainstick
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A rainstick Takes its time To shower seeds Along its spine I wish I'd given Ample cause To justify Its warm applause All I did: Rotate its axis Pity I can't Apply the practice To all those people Who don't...
July 26, 2007: Marc Bolan
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Marc Bolan came to me Wrapped in a magazine And I took up being 16. Mystics and wizards Mist and the spells I couldn't get the hang Just the cloaked figure With his doll's face Saved by his ringlets I...
May 4, 2007: Arthur's Seat
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Time makes solid The bubbling earth Its hurlings frozen In black gestures Years of sleep bring The soft grass To calm the memory And bring little Ishbel, with her red cheeks To play in the shadows Of a catastrophe. ©...
March 27, 2007: Birdsong
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He understands the language of birdsong. He knows each fluted warning Is a territorial border Each hopped perch An outpost invisible but audible. When sparrows chirp They are singing barbed wire And checkpoints Mirror shades, boots and The low-slung rifle....
