Your Voice
Love poem
Still in the still of the rain
I sense you near.
The room is full
of the scent of emptiness
yet even the silence
turns my head.
The walls expand
to enclose the world.
With gaudy flags
on a colored map
I mark your progress
through my memory,
upwards and inwards
your progress to my heart.
A moth glistens in the circle
cast by my reading light.
Your stealthy footsteps
sound in the corridor.
A voice, your voice,
drifts through the night
rogermoorepoet 
Beautiful and elegiac Roger
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Thank you. This is the first in an old series rewritten. It is a mystery sequence and all will be revealed at the end. I am wondering whether to comment or just to set the poems out.
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Sent the poems out and comment at the end. A bit of mystery never did any harm. That’s my advise anyway.
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That’s what I’m going to do. As Lorca wrote: “Solo el misterio nos hace vivir, solo el misterio.” Only the mystery keeps us alive, only the mystery.
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Agreed, or as Francis Bacon said ‘the artist job is to deepen the mystery’.
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It’s 2:00 am chez toi! I’m ready for bed. Too much Trump on tv over here. Oh dear: he’s going to attack me on twitter.
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Same here
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I love the “scent of emptiness”…has my mind full of all sorts of possibilities…
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Thanks, Tanya. This poem goes right back to the seventies (maybe even the late sixties) when I really was a beginning poet.
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It is fun to see you share some old ones…
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I am thinking of reworking Secret Garden, a little book I wrote for Clare some twenty years ago. This poem antedates that book by another twenty years! Like the roots of your tanka tree: we go very deep.
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Oh, I love that. Wonderful!
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Sad and lovely, Roger! Hurry home love!
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Thanks, Meg. I wrote it a long time ago. shall explore some of my old love poems and see if they are still viable. My new project. More about this later!
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Excellent! Look forward to it!
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