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Poise with the pose
'No no its ''lartez'' '
That is the way
It has to be said
'No no its ''lartez'' '
His black eyes
escape the debate
Clout me out
A fresh argument
Forgetting ''lartez''
poem by Michael Oliver
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Chells 1957 no 3
Sunlight on oak leaves
Reveals the windows open
through this clear morning
The barn warming speaks
My mind on tiptoe
The brightnes beckons
Bacon singing sizzling upward
Fixes all the moment
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The Blush Of Apples
Those eleven apples
A seasons festoon
Green slowly defeated
And blush triumphant
So apples ripen
An aide existential
Innocent they'll fall
Picked or blown
The natural way
As things go
The Autumn conclusion
Sung in unison
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To Cambridge
and beside me
and travelling
Studying notes
Grasping the fact
The fraught features
Looks again reads
and so beyond
and travelling
After hedges
The so blue sky
Lets planes and clouds
Each one some space
and so onward
and travelling
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Jade immortality
Red silk link tablets
-jade by jade
Mark a once space
- of mortal wish
Now a private immortal
-cased in silence
Her inclined features
-through the stare
How close am I
-the ache apparent
Her inquiring look yearns
-at the response
The dream is made
-of endless life
The solitary plaques unanimous
-declaim the reality
The shape is itself
-its own reply
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A reaction to a film
A score of years my truth for you
A life without contact captured forever now here
This fact silent absorbed fed by my illusion
Filling the raw reality of moods silent eruption
As I watch myself ailing aging and fading
The flow approaches denouement this layer cake life
Never any release - no -nor any single word
Until death bed lips mouth your conjoured name
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Two 'Mill' Poems
1
Outside water slowly flows
and here just time
Standing at the bar
or leaning or waiting
And sat - blurred talk
easy and - chinked glasses
Or a leg flexed
thank you oh thanks
For idle time wanders
as the water passes
2
Some classic pose
of self knowledge
A preened admiration
red striped shirt
A posed Adam
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Chells 1957
One sided off centre
we sit as family
In two tone past
Being then being memory
Dad yes self image
Mum the illness there
And me-Half stated
in the space between
A family group photo
Attended by two dogs
Candy the light one
Duke the black one
Each mastering their space
Sitting and panting adoration
We are shadows posing
A triptych of heirarchy
Where are we looking
Posing into the lens
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She Walks Away
She walks away receding
A framed hardship
Once she chased boys
A child's different corridor
A mind alive then
The moment is grasped
As step by step
Today is no more
Today a gloved hand
Blue against the softness
Caressed her breast flesh
As the pink yielded
This way that way
To a palpable neutrality
Until there just there
A lump has appeared
Today is already yesterday
As step by step
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The lark ascending. some thoughts from an English churchyard -12th September 20012
1
Through autumns slow warmth
zephyrs mild dialogue
The theme birds improvise
the shadows capture
All this platonic talk
defies the telling
A butterfly settles drinks
the reflective sunlight
2
Flowers colour the grave
ashimmer with breeze
Catch shards of light
tremble at nature
As prayer and remembering
blown to where
The shadows of community
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