Ashley Bovan
#photograph from #Ely #Cathedral, #England
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#photograph #Beach at #Penarth, #SouthWales
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~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 178
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Melissa
Safe, in a nice semi home,
the dreamers’ daughter
adopts a style, fashions herself,
then steps out to use the train.
Cattle-truck men
slobber up eyesful,
lick her over until…
~ ~ #Poem wall orange
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You could be warm
in the suburbs
with magic light
or stripped red
brown
wall orange
or throw your coin
to
St Winefride’s fountain
missing the…
#photograph #Dark #Aliens
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#photograph #Dark #Architecture – city of #Bath, #England
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#photograph #Dark #Corridor – #Tate #Britain, #London
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~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 180
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(Saturday Night/Ludlow Station)
Because I love to be near you
I sit on a bench in a box
made of concrete blocks
on the platform
next to you
and the others
I love to listen to your…
~ ~ #Poem Mean Time
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A break in the rain
and although the grass is wet
tourists wander bench to bench,
read the dedications: In loving memory
of John Rhys who loved nothing more
than to visit this park. They read…
#photograph from the #Train
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#photograph #Poppy #Meadow
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~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 181
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I go back, imaginatively, shrug
my back, remember the mistral
lost in memories of Blackwood
thrashing in Blackwood, queer
crops swamp my desk, tarnish
the pages, the log of my travels
a…
~ ~ #Poem I need to lie
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I need to lie
on my belly
ear to the ground
left
right
crick this crunchy neck
beaten
on shoulders
by sun
This was, I recall,
a key component
of my religious practice
before agnostic…
#photograph #white #crab #spider #eats #bee
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#photograph #Old #Wooden #Stairs
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~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 182
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Thoughts bustle this pure still city.
I’m remembering waves;
remembering the way, unmoved,
long ago; remembering busy sky.
Fulmars smash centre, fly clear;
the cross-leaved spray,…
~ ~ #Poem Homecoming
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After the earth
the manic scent of summer’s bustle.
After the silence
the enchanting songs, promising.
After ruggedness
the sensuous touch of city madness.
I’m still alone,
but it’s good to hold…
#photograph #Hotel – #Cardiff #Bay
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#photograph #Stained #Glass #Window – #Ely #Cathedral
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#photograph #Oystermouth #Bay – #Swansea #Beach, #South #Wales
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~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 183
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The Reading Room
Sat congealed in cavernous leeb,
flicking, flipping, not observing,
when upcroached Lively, spitting,
cursing, “Y have ma chair”, “Nay
dunna”, scuffle there, and…
~ ~ #Poem Wide Open Spaces
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The egg-timer
in your bedsit
trickles
grain by grain
You and me
on Porth Mawr
the beach
touched by ocean
stopwatching the waves
In my heart
I do not have
to not waste paper
when I…
#photograph #Old #Windows – near the #Guildhall, #Plymouth, #Devon
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~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 184
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On the Bus
back from my girlfriend’s
I get thinking about school
and where all the others
from my year are
and what they’re doing
and who they’re seeing
and why I wasn’t…
~ ~ #Poem Some touching lovestone
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Some touching lovestone
has moved the surface again
but you know it’s not for you -
the echoes play around the bars of your cage
Quarantined for your own good
we’ve…
#photograph Three #Young #Coots – the #Docks, #Cardiff #Bay
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#photograph #Steps & #Shadows – #OldSarum #Hillfort
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#photograph #Window & #Sky
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#photograph #Step – on the #Beach – #Penarth
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#photograph #Cathedral #Close – #Salisbury, #England
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#photograph #Spire
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~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 185
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A Cronenberg creature
a hungry
wall-eating
thing
in my belly
Feed it dreams
else
it groans
Tendrils extend through
to shoulders and knees
You can’t cut it away
Ashley…
~ ~ #Poem Return
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Slap face-down in puddle,
spitting out spilled well-water,
brown ground-swell,
sputters of storm-drains,
cold finger-skeletons crack and jab,
scalpels twist in knuckles,
tendons burn like dry-ice.
I…
#photograph #Ely #Cathedral – #Cambridgeshire, #England
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#photograph #Coot – #Roath #Park #Lake, #Cardiff
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~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 186
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On a grey day
the halogen bulbs
in the café give you migraine
Zig-zags criss-cross your eyes
You move seats
but reflections dog you
Nothing settles
You act out your best moments
but…
~ ~ #Poem Shiva
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I have cut
down
trees
Himalayan pine and Tibetan birch
out front
From the back
red oak, red willow
also
black bamboo, dog rose
mountain ash, weeping willow
and…
~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 187
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They let me sit at a picnic table
in the garden of Oxford Union
lie on a bench, look up
through the leaves
into the blue sky
and then ascend
on a cushion
lazy, like a sunning cat
and…
~ ~ #Poem Played-out Mania
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Quiet here
Played-out mania
Boot-prints in the snow
Done all my missing
~ thrown down with ache
threw it up
split my guts
rerun rain-drenched streets
alley rats, old stuff
things…
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