Many years ago in business as a wellness consultant
to clients I would explain , how their most unwellness state,
was linked to pollution and other earthly degradation
It was then I'd sometimes hear you're a hippy and a greenie
that was their responsive exhortation
My retort, Thank you for that keenly measured observation
I'm am proud that over time I have improved my state of being
many deliberate choices have been made
You can now remunerate me for my expertise
I'm always grateful when time arrives for me to get paid
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Madness
Take me away, far far away to your madness;
In your asylum of thoughts you do deny, and you punish me to fuel your unforgiving lie.
Take me away, up up up into your cloud
where my heart does death and dies;
Wish me then, an unwellness there, on your cloud of pretence, and I see it , the fool in your eyes .
Crow in the trees , you chorus your sqawrk of dis ease ;
I, my heart broken to your content; You are pleased to tare me apart; I know of your judgement;
Here on the cloud of sorrow; On your branch you squawrk and you flap, scratching your itch, taring my heart apart; It's your rap, where your words and complaints and your explanations of no sorry you sent;
Echoes the alarm , take me far far away to your madness, bent up in your arms .
Unwellness in Railway View
(An Addingham poem)
It was not just the flickering ember
that lit the way to one’s damp musty bed
nor sash cord window panes I remember
stamped with willow patterns of frosty shred,
but the vile grotesque shadows that followed
created on walls of chalk distemper
that drove along shivers standing hair on head.
Bereft of childhood in those haunting days
where tiny feet scurried yet feared to tread
on staid stone slabs that lay on earthen floor
caused an array of warped winter ailments
a Wharfedale river cough a throaty caw.
But apparitions they ne’er go away
serves up the moment every single day.
© Harry J Horsman 2021
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