Do you take a deep breath to write a poem,
or dally with the weather on a country walk?
Dancing between raindrops, or cosmic downpours,
whether it's right for this time of year?
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Breathing helps, of course, always;
would you finish a poem without breath?
Perhaps spend time revising words,
like paper boats pushed out
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May I tell you, please, what I think?
Perhaps it is that season now,
when we can sit outdoors and drink.
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You're gone and now your body's not the same.
So dull and lifeless, you're not there. It's plain
that you have flown away beyond this realm
and earth has lost a gem, a glowing stone
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Inspired by ‘Woodland Stream' Alan Kingwell, Liskeard,1998 (Lynher Valley, Bodmin Moor) .
My friend, you send the sweetest winter scene
to thrill my eyes and fill my heart with joy.
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