Preparation

SENSATIONAL HAIKU

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PREPARATION

(A practical haiku)

Preface every move

With a picture in your mind.

Success will be yours.

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THE STILLNESS

( Snow in England)

The voice on the telephone

Sounded a world away.

Which it was.

'I'm looking out at the Channel' he said.

'Everything is quiet.

The roads are closed.

Everything is still'.

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And I could see it,

 Remember it,

Re-paint the picture in my mind.

Snow by the  English Channel.

The snow of my childhood.

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Snow makes the dark light

And the light dark.

The sky is leaden and solid.

The world is light, airy

And not of this world.

The sea draws a grey line

Between the two.

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But it is the stillness

That I remember most.

The utter muffling

Of all sound.

A white deafness.

An enchantment.

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Maybe I shall never see snow again.

But I shall remember it,

Whenever I am still.

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PS

The Silly Season continues apace. I haven't always remembered my camera, so the Scrabble Party and Malcolm's Club party went unrecorded. But we did a little casual play at Figtree Nursing Home this-morning and here were are, lined-up, afterwards. I was merely going to announce, hence I'm not in the black that we usually wear. I have a yellow hard-hat on my head as I had to take the part of The Woodsman, after one of our party couldn't attend. What a fine body of women!