4 POEMS

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6 Lines

Searching for simplicity

in the park

in December

the subtle variation

of a black layered sky

threatens rain –

November   

In the first touch

of day light

false

with dark cloud

the empty

promise of rain

a view

scene with dispirited regularity

lines of torn black

windows

denuded parkland

& ragged trees

while drinking the last

of the coffee grounds

bitter

remains of morning.

Winter Lines                                                           

Through the window

past the frost

thin branches

measure the sky

Failure In                                                      

flicking a bug

off the coffee table

unable to describe

a perfect arc.

DANIEL HEALY - Born in Wales in 1972. He lives in Cambridge. He has had poems in various magazines and thinks that brevity is a virtue.

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