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A glint in your eye

There’s a glint in your eye
perhaps a furtive glance
or a smile
you’re ready to dance.

Dance, we will,
till the sun rests
And sing, we will,
till the moon’s in the sky.

That lubricious look you gave me
full of passion, desire – and there was one thing
one in who’s recognising I’m only a trainee
it’s one that made my heart so dearly ring.

You can feel it between the short breaths
between the needed gulps of air
a pang of fiery warmth
through a curtain of her hair.

This is a world unparalleled
as we reach the romantic overture
where words are of no use, where telepathy prevails
an experience, a feeling to nurture.

As the beating drums switch to tingling triangles,
and oxytocin tsunamis turn to tender embraces
understanding the words behind each fond caress:
‘tis adoration for one another we here possess.

On the desk

A leftover poem,
a scrap of text
lying on my desk.
A little surprise
for myself or others.
For some,
a pleasant one:
brings a smile
to their frownèd face.
For others,
a shred of paper
with some scribbles.
Very combustible,
it is either way.

The ambulance

An azure-blue sky
so bright, shining.
The sun set into it,
like a gem,
a glowing amber,
radiating heat,
radiating life.

And the bumblebees bumble by bushes
looking lost.
But this is what we think.
With our big societies,
rich civilisations, think.

A glimpse of a bright car
on the road
a van, flashing lights.
Oh no, I think.
Not again.
Not here.

Screeching suddenly, it stops.
Suited-up silhouettes sprinting.
A rush,
a deathly urgency.

Life is in slow motion
now even more so
like pressing ‘rewind’
on a remote with no batteries.

A person, on a stretcher
comes out.
The masks and gloves
slam doors
and all of it
is over.
As quickly as it began.

That’s life
or what remains of it
under quarantine.