1.1.22

new-year

new-hoose

new-trails

new-trials

new places to lose four bunches of keys

new-rooms

new-desk

new-drafts

new-craft

new places to partake in slow afternoon tea

new-plants

new-rhythm

new-moments

new hills inviting long muddy phrases to run wild and free

new-sparks

new-names

new-friendships

new-mindslips

new rivers of unaccountable lies

new-hopes

new-plans

new-stumbles

new-ends

new maybe’s, ifs and perhaps

new-questions

new-shoes 

new unsustainable views

new-pondering the where’s and the why

new-packing

new-longing

new unrecognising the fear that holds us firm

new-circles

new-cycles

new cultural-horizons

new quivers to hold auld lang sine

new-glances

new-scents

nuisance

new lines to greet the clamour of bells.

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Three boys, brothers 

by their gaze and gait;

the taller two steps 

ahead. The smaller 

messing with stuffed

pockets half runs 

to keep up.

Did we walk that way?

Me strutting ahead

embarrassed by your

childishness, playing

it cool, almost a man.

We walk together now,

measured pace.

Three men, brothers. 

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Wordhoard

Words matter.

The ones we use 

and those we discarded.

The ones we blurt

and those that will never return.

The ones we hear 

and those we disregard

The ones we splutter

furious, tearful, uncertain.

That word matters.

The one that closes,

and this re-imagined.

The one that dies

and these that stop us in our tracks.  

The one that heals

and this that gives blessing.

The one that opens

wisdom, debate, ifs and perhaps.

Words live on.

The ones broken,

and those we remember

The ones revised

and those we hold untenable.

The ones ungagged

and those we will always bear.

The ones exploded

unheard and intersectional.

Each word matters.

Coddle - breast - wean - nurture;

Paddle - stroke - somersaults with twist;

Regard - bless - treasure -  weigh.

Craig Muir 2018

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