Ashley Bovan
#photograph Inside #Salisbury #Cathedral
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#photograph #DownPipes – #Venice
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#photograph #WoodWork – #Ely #Cathedral
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~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 175
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Disturbing Diagnosis
We three
are a triangle -
me,
where I’m going,
and
you.
Ashley Bovan
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~ ~ #Poem Saturday Night on Ludlow Station
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Because I love
to be near you
I sit on a bench
in a box made
of concrete blocks
on the platform
next to you
and the others
We don’t have an awful…
~ ~ #Poem five eights are forty
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woke 5.30
made tea
back to bed
got thinking
school
times tables
5 8s are 40
mmm, so lovely
4 8s are 32
too strict
6 8s are 48
past it.
Also
whilst up
eyes
mild,…
~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 173
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I broke into your bedsit
and trashed it.
I’m sorry, but I get moods
and you seem nice.
[after Koch and Williams ]
Ashley…
~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 165
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Per Capita I walked from Café
Royal to Academy Royal ruing
the death of Woolworths
experimenting with various
abdominal muscle tensions now
wishing I was alpha Octoberish
weather slept…
~ ~ #Poem She Cursed Me
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She cursed me the whole journey
thought I’d stolen her seat
wrong carriage
wrong carriage
wrong carriage
I think she was…
~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 166
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Pastoral Stuff
I firmly visualise an iconic grey
seal basking, then wrangle with
the alignment of my steel girder
skeletal structure eventually,
gratefully, reaching a well-
negotiated…
~ ~ #Poem Crafty
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Your poems are all forgeries -
imitations of old masters with your name on.
You say,
my laziness has become transfigured into arrogance.
You say,
other stuff which I’ve conveniently forgotten.
You…
~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 167
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Splints
forgot to strap on my splints today
and all the normal knocks
hurt my broken bits
my knees buckled
sucked
my thoughts down
I resolved to purchase
a suitably decorated
walking…
~ ~ #Poem Getting Out
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The Bus Driver
with the Santa hat
directed us to the stop on the flyover
for more choice
of routes into town
The Lad
half of a young couple
recommended we take the…
~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 169
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None of these words are any good
I need a new language
All music
is flat
When it was quiet
didn’t you use to visit?
I can’t tell now
it’s so noisy
In this room
full of characters
we…
~ ~ #Poem Classtime: Back Corner
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They stew like prunes
like twisted walnuts
soured in juices
mumble like witches
suck like graves
zombie arms up through coffins
grasping
dragging
down
begging
crying
teach…
~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 170
~ main post here ~ https://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/04/todays-short-poem-170/
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From Heartwood Well
Five hundred million years -
this earth-core clusters inwards,
sucks me into a salty delirium,
glass, down abdomen way.
The place names on this coastline
match the…
~ ~ #Poem you could be warm
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you could be warm
in the suburbs
with magic light
or stripped red
brown
wall orange
or throw your coin
to
St Winefride’s fountain
I miss your…
~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 171
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When you spend too long
looking in the mirror
broken mirror
forcing pieces back
into someone else’s pattern
you know
where the next war will begin
you know
nothing will get better.
It’s…
~ ~ #Poem Dark Nature
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Just this one night
above all others
some universe, or two,
overlaps;
limitless galaxies align.
From horizon to zenith,
capped;
a wrap around our shoulders.
Below us,
cross-legged on jumbled…
#photograph #SeaWeed – #Penarth #Beach, SouthWales
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#photograph #Pond #Lily
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#photograph #Young #Coot – #RoathPark #Lake, #Cardiff
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~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 172
~ main post here ~ https://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/todays-short-poem-172/
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dole-ville
the air is skank
with innocence
Tibetan meditation
gangrene wallpaper
disinfectant / crumbly carpet
has bean-bags / satinette cushions
ketchupy plates
bitter chips /…
~ ~ #Poem Evening Out
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I can’t see a thing
No moon, no stars
My feet evolve super-sensors
This lane cambers from centre to sides
I know, ahead, there’s a dip, down
to a bridge over a dribbly stream
then a climb
I…
#photograph #Stained #Glass #Window, #Ely #Cathedral
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#photograph #Path, #River, #Avon, #Salisbury
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~ ~ #Poem Bio
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She got a first
From Chester University,
Theology,
Caught the eye
Of Professor Jaguar.
He took her
To Casanova
For an Italian
Then back
To his spouse
And…
~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 163
~ main post here ~ https://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/09/28/todays-short-poem-163/
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damn lambs
week old, ratty, splatty, covered
in flem, big eyed, eared, fluff, no
weather in the sky, just reflected,
and aeroplane hum, leaves in trees
and wormy, wiggly piglets…
#photograph #Market at #Night – #Marrakesh
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#photograph #Garden behind #Bars
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#photograph #Organ #Pipes – #Salisbury #Cathedral
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~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 164
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Juggle Tyrant
This training
1 – the streets
2 – noise thoughts get quieter
3 – the studies
…and then dreams crack
– sustained unreality
sets up shockwaves
Ashley…
#photograph #Cardiff #Bay #Barrage
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#photograph Seen from the #Train
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~ ~ #Poem Down by the Lake
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Down by the Lake Under a nearby weeping willow / a flock of geese pad and poke a push-chair rattles along / Alice wipes mud from an off-green park bench two bedlam kids squawking /…
#photograph Old #Building – #Salisbury, #CityCentre
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#photograph Old #Building from #Cathedral #Close, #Salisbury
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~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 162
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Memory Effect
I take an empty Coke bottle
and refill it with tap water.
Overnight it acquires
fizz and flavour and caffeine
but not colour.
Puzzled, I check the label
or, as I like to…
~ ~ #Poem Underground Prayer
~ main post here ~ http://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/09/27/poem-underground-prayer/
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Underground Prayer If you forgive those who fail come thine, a whirlpool look out and forgive us heaven, the power get hit by the kingdom daily bread, power come for a new fool…
~ ~ #Poem Thames and Benches
~ main post here ~ https://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/poem-thames-and-benches/
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The museum gates clank shut
in silence and no wind
is heard in corridors
just the cries of lost children
and biscuits crushed into carpet
and wardens touching fossils and…
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