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All Together Now: Senryu
ALL TOGETHER NOW
There’d be no rainbow
Except for all the colours
Sharing its beauty
Fellow Traveller: Shadorma
FELLOW TRAVELLER
Perhaps we’ll
Meet along the way
Share a loaf
Recount our
Adventures and disasters
Then go on our way
Poets Out Loud: Four By Six
POETS OUT LOUD
Let’s share our poetry
For without that I fear
It might quickly descend
Into onanism
Ploughed Furrows: Double Shadorma
PLOUGHED FURROWS
Digging jazz
(Video soundtrack)
Made back then
Here and now
Reacting in our own way
This too is unique
A sharing
Togetherness, no
Side by side
You and I
A shared experience, well
Close as we can get
Weekend Wake-up Call (An acrostic)
WEEKEND WAKE-UP CALL
Stealthily,
Awakening
Tickles
Under
Rustling
Duvet
Arouse
Yearning
Getting To Know You
GETTING TO KNOW YOU
I’ll show you my scars
Only on condition that
You will show me yours
Overwrought
OVERWROUGHT
Simply slowing down
Is far more important
Than we are generally
Encouraged to notice
Once having done so
Is it not then our duty
To try to pass it on?
Old Friends
OLD FRIENDS
I have here two much loved books
Originally purchased at second-hand shops
(being pretty short of money in my youth – 10p each!)
I have now replaced them both in better shape
So the earlier copies are surplus to requirement
While I have looked after them carefully
(You may remember from our years together
That I’m always careful with books, discs etc.)
They were a little careworn by previous owners
So I don’t think charity shops would be interested
The content beneath the slightly dilapidated surfaces though
Is too precious to be thoughtlessly assigned to the refuse bin just yet
I recognise you as a discerning reader
And wonder whether you might not
Offer them a temporary home, another reading
Even though it might be their last
In exchange I believe you may receive herein
Some fine entertainment
Some food for thought
Let me know if interested and
I’ll package and despatch them
Ben Naga 