Richard G Berg

Father and daughter moving
Ahead, riding a bicycle unattached
To stabilisers, learning
The physics of trust
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Her gift is a gift
Of a different kind
A kind surprise:
Small ball of candle.
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An abandoned stick
Takes a break
From its walker
Free to take a stand
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Escape

Week by week
They visited him, devotees
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Doing
Is not necessarily activity
But the necessity
For inactivity
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Not knowing troubles
He spoke too harshly
Of hers
This troubled her more
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He admired himself
In mirrors wine glasses
Knives spoons
She was full by eight
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Woman at window
Woman behind
A window
Woman as window
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LOL. Laughing
Out loud. Lack of love
Leaving
Options Lonely. Out
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World Poetry Day
Time to rhyme
Self with rhythm's
Wealth. Feel thinking's pulse
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Church graveyard. Sunshine
Warming up what's left of life
Not the first visit
Will it be the last return
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Coffee houses. Some
Serving decaffeinated
Rumours of the past
Crumbling menus. Biscuit-sized
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Winter over. Spring
Not ready. Out of work clouds
Cataract sunshine
Embarrassed daffodils shake
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When they go, when you
Are young, their going
Leaves you
When clocks and mirrors
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Coming inside from July's lazy haze
Meeting the singular in serious
Space, doubt-permitting dark, a surprise fan
Placeless on a pew's ledge. Cooling someone
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This young
Woman

Who sits
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Only love ghosts age
Once lulled gravity annulled
Order lost gasps age
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Easter in Ukraine
Where love
Comes painted on eggs
Children's eyes sunrise
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Poetry rolls between a question's bosom
Beauty delights with certain doubt
Logic rarely applies as well as lipstick
A question mark is the crook bending an exclamation mark
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Laughter is not laughter
When laughter cannot have fun
If laughing is with some pain fraught
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