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June Poetry: Words On York

The history was palatable,
From the grass tucked between the cobbled streets,
to the cold faces of men
scribed onto the Minister walls.
It wasn't the first time that men managed to clamber onto
history through the labour
of other men.
The toil of forgotten souls who
spent days carving cold stone,
only for those inside to look
to the sky in search of theirs.

Friendly voices would echo against the cavernous walls of the Minister,
thousands of hours etched into sounds that would leap out onto the ears of eager-minded travellers.
"The word for apple is also the word for fruit in Latin",
beckoned one of the more lively tour guides,
another simple mistake that had managed to perch itself within culture for centuries.
Decades of musical references at once dispelled by a tentative historian,
his only hope be that more people spread the same message.
Upon entering,
One of the Fathers would utter words
in a moment of prayer,
people would sit in silence,
returning to childhood experiences when
older people were the voice of reason,
all of whom were looking for one small
moment to let go of responsibilities
and forget the family sat next to them,
most of whom were dependent on their strength
and guidance.
As the train drifted downwards,
the constraints would slowly fall back into position,
an unexplored city now less enigmatic,
a string of kind people
and good coffee
to thank.

June Poetry: a gust of thought

Fleeting,
often times my creativity
is there one second 
and gone 
the next.
You follow the fluttering wings 
of a butterfly 
and try to capture it 
in your small, youthful hands 
only to open them and find
it’s not there.
Did it ever exist?
The question floats off
much like the butterfly.
If it was even real.
You stick your tongue out
pulling your waterproof hood back
as you do so,
finding a lack of water droplets 
available to bounce off the 
edges of your lips,
opening your eyes you see the 
sun shining bright unlike it
was just a minute ago.
	These quick changes of state 
happen all the time,
forever around you.
Who are you to criticize 
the direction of the wind?
merely adapt,
embrace this change of direction 
and of thought
or cease to exist
in a world full of
life
and 
creativity. 
With each face of the mind,
make sure you look it in the eye,
no matter how quick its glance.

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