Bliss Fullness in Blue

By Ian Wilcox

Another parcel of the thoughts of an idle mind with the assistance of some amazing Guest writers.
The first one in a new venture of four.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Jan 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9781984593498

Ian Wilcox

Ian Wilcox is a 50+ London born man of many thoughts Although I have been penning verse for over 40 years, it was just a hobby that passed some time. Following a Heart attack and Stroke that left me, among other things, registered visually Impaired I made poetry a reason to learn to adapt so that I could write again. I have a loving Partner and Daughter who are both from the Philippines and are the reason that I smile everyday Messages for Mj is my second Book project this year following the publication of Letters to Lodieta

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Copyright © 2020 by Ian Wilcox.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Rev. date: 01/30/2020

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Contents

A Day In The Realms Of Beauty

The Inquiry

Bliss Fullness In Blue

An Apple In The Acorn Patch

Just Make Believe

Clapham Junction (Or That Function)

For New Pastures

Feast And Fulfilment

Featured Front And Centre

Journey Of No Return

I Am Not Perfect Or Even Close

Full Up

Friends

Wick Wack Heart Attack

Is It So Hard

Lodieta I Love You

Abomination Avarice

P.o.e.t.

I Love

Dawning Of The Day

I Chose A Different Path

I Heard Echoes

Syrup In The Sea Of Sanity

Today

My Perfect Daughter

Sand Does Sometimes

Wishing Wonders In World Of Woe

Umbrella Up And Paper Cup

Soundtrack To The Sense Of Something

What Went Where

A Clamp Down

Elevenses

Shall I Wear Grey

Advance You Ancient

In A Talent Now Are Caught

Everything For Reason

Me Being Free

Silent Sleeper

Every Night I Lie And Lie

No, No Never

Caught Calamity

The Sum

A Single Look

Keeping Up? Because I’m Curious

The Gift Of Disability

Autumn For Those Avarice

Tonight I Fed

The Gift Of Disability

Hobbit Hurtling Horseback

First Love Lost

Situation A Creation

To The One That Hears The Music

I Came, I Saw, I Kicked Some

If Ever Was Never, Just Forever

Now’s The Time

Carmina Burana

Wandering Wistfully Without Sunlight

The Argos Of The Affiliate Abstainer

Watching Water Wander Wayward

10 Minutes

All The Sounds

Bloodshot Eyes

Carmina Burana

Evern Came

Climate Climbing

Another Sip

Craziness Is Quadrant Quattro

Creepiness In Cold Corners

Solomon Swam

Colder Climates

Full Throttle Funky Fun

Furry Friends

Muchamuddled

Nothing’s True But

The Ultimate Mother

In The Meeting

Things Happen

Epileptic Entertainment

When Wishes Turn To Wonder

Shenanigans In Shady Shanties

Faith

No Prezzies Christmas

Fascination At The Irritation

Enemy Of A State (Of Mind)

Four Thirty Thought

W I W

Global Greetings

Wonky Walther

Peace In The Hands Of Love

Kendal Mint Cake

Once A Warrior - Now Again

Will Start Over

Achtung!! Maybe

My Substantive

Surfing

The Picture

This Wonderful World

Once - It Cost

Making Mayhem Muddling Minds

In My Head

The Ink That Flows

Bangers ‘N’ Mash

I Wonder

Never Let The

Climptit Bizkit

Just Another Bit Of Silliness

Lost Lectern At El Liberator

Exploring The Atolls Of Ambition

They For Us

Algorithms

Asked An Answer From Anonymous

My Body Chose Me

Effortless Is Effectiveness

Can I Have Cinnamon On My Egg Nog

Something’s Shrinking

Another Nonsense Now Shows

An Almost Sonnet For The Senses

Distance Doesn’t Dampen

If I Am In A Paradise

A Sincere Statement Said

Same Again

Bad Idea

A Look

Asking Angels For Advice

Fixed The Fault

Once Upon A Toffee Trifle

Who Makes The Marks

Antlers At Attention, Horns A Hopeful Harvest

Can You Convince

Let’s Awaken The Dove

My Crown

Situation A Creation

Amidst Confusion Came Clarity

Autumn For Those Avarice

Imagine Days

Now Dun’s Done

So Look

We

Scintillating The Success

Sometime After Sunset

All The Sounds

Bloodshot Eyes

Exclamation

Going Slow With The Flow

Exclamation

Flatulence In Affluence

Harmonies A Mystery

Archimedes Screw

Memories Parade And New Life Made

Parisian Paths (And Autographs)

Sorry Mate

A Swam Swum

Called And Collected

Contentment, Resentment And Settlement

Everything And Anything Lead To A Something Or A Nothing

Feelings Of Forgotten Fellows

Flippant In The Frivolous

Bought My Ticket

Come You Beast

Blue

The Ever After

Bliss Fullness In Blue

Cherished Memories

Everything For Reason

P.o.e.t.

Ice Cream’s Nice Cream

Twenty - Twenty Vision Mission

What To Do With Thought New

Precious Girl. Our Miracle

H.b. Penny

Spare A Thought

The Carnival When No Wherewithal

New Buds

Yuk-A-Duck

Bamboozling Bus Ride

In Echelons Of Days Bygone

Karma Came A Calling

The Pre 7Am Impromptu Collaboration

Made The Man

Christmas Seems So Wrong

Mystical Exploration

Winkles Tickle

I Bleed

Phantoms Fly Over Former Fields

Sanguine In The Season

Should I Change Things?

Fight You Or Ignore You

Shadow Talk

Far From Home And Feeling Worthless

Ship In Bottle

Anachronisms In A Mighty Columns

Crackers In ‘The Knackers Yard’

One Wandered And One Wondered

When Wonky Woke

Corporation Situation

A,P After Punishment

Simple Pleasures That I Treasure

B. A.u.

Off My Head Instead

Mistletoe And Maybe Next Year

When One Orb Rises

Electric Is The Energy

Is The Solution

Every Night I Lie And Lie

Another Shade Of Grey

Every Day A Paradise

Advance The Avant-Garde

You And Me A Fantasy

A Dip Into The Treasure Trove

Calling ‘Collectives’ To Congregate

Shine On You Star Arising

The Revolving Evolution Of Me

Sometimes You Seek

Hobbit Hurtling Horseback

Is Evolution The Solution?

The Tears I Cried

Adventurers Into Acclimation

Can You Convince

Inside Ones Self

Question Asked

Somewhere In The Signal

Suddenly A Sunrise

Who Are We That Claim To Be?

Harmonies A Mystery

Nothing Really Matters

So What Is Sunset

The Man A Kin

Wandering Wistfully Without Sunlight

Shift The Shite

‘Crystallised’ In Character

Meanwhile In Some Unknown Place

If No-One Cared

Seen From Socrates

As A Token

In My Blood

Those Morning Legs

Something Strange So Had To Change

The Mirror Cracked

Time Is

Verification In The Vernacular

With Fulcrum For A Future

‘Fast’ Or ‘Fitness’

‘Killing’ Oneself In Comfort

Why One Day?

A DAY IN THE REALMS

OF BEAUTY

To

Andrew Jones

My dear valued friend and awesome poetic Brother

The man may be something different

That I do not care

The man is a living marvel

Of one who chose to dare

The person is a friend of mine

That I’m glad off

The next stage of literature we will see

When of my own shall scoff

Andrew is the yet undiscovered

Though has put some works in print

Check him out for yourself

It will make you think

Things like what you know

Things like what you don’t

Things that you are willing to

Things you think you won’t

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THE INQUIRY

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BLISS FULLNESS IN BLUE

To Andrew Jones

My poetic Brother

No matter what you’re thinking

No matter what you do

There’s a certain sense of comfort

Bliss fullness in blue

The tranquillity of water

The reassurance that is sky

The time to reflect on stuff

Without a reason why

The pause of cause without applause

The step back for oneself

The tranquillity of reality

The boost to ones own health

An hour here or maybe day

Longer if am blessed

The sublime restful time

Away from livings test

Oh how I yearn for it again

Stuck in concrete jungle with limited view

To see again the open spaces

To see again but new

That sense of self abandonment

That sense of being free

That relaxing of the daily constraints

That confine both you and me

Bliss fullness in blue waters

Bliss fullness in blue sky

Bliss fullness in blue horizons

Not you see just why

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AN APPLE IN THE

ACORN PATCH

Climate change seems so strange

Nothing as do know

The climate is a lottery

One day, different seasons show

Sun and rain then Sun again

While a cold wind does blow

Snow could loom before Noon

Though not yet on show

Deception Moms intention

Mother Nature mean

For given up on forecasts

From them nothing glean

Just take on-board and shall not hoard

No need for panic buying

Mix of Sales and possibly Hale

Things are surely trying

Vegetation in hesitation

Not sure quite what to do

Now am witnessing strange sights

Viewing that’s that new

An Apple in the Acorn patch

Would be of no surprise

The way that things are happening

Acceptance would be wise

T-shirt and a thick coat

Tucked Hood and pair of gloves

A pair of well dubbed comfy shoes

Mother Nature can have some shoves

Crankiness in the cranial collection

I am not mad

That’s pure perception

Maybe slightly

On reflection

Had a mishap

Did I mention

Some crankiness in the cranial collection

Things are different - That is true

Can’t now do what once did do

Guess that somehow gives a clue

Almost but not quite same as you

Sit and stare but don’t see

That’s a part of new me

Look the same way but have changed

Getting over something strange

Fizz, fizz phut at the start

Plip plop gone came along

Made decision, became a vision

Nothing stops you when think strong

Different yes but the same

Still enjoying the new game

Still old me with still same name

Still avoiding things called Fame

Who needs ‘perfect’?

When not known

Who is judge

If not own

Free to think

Yes they are

Near and yonder

Close and far

Me? I just have some crankiness in the cranial collection

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JUST MAKE BELIEVE

Never give up

On just what you believe

No never give up

However hard life seems

No matter your disability

Of the affliction you have

Never given up on your dream but make it

A reality

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Never give up

On all you do each day

Writing about life

And things seen each day

Faces of people both

The young and the old

All have a life’s story

Waiting to be told

Andrew Jones

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CLAPHAM JUNCTION

(OR THAT FUNCTION)

Decision, decision, decision

Too young for doing this

Free drinks with an old un

Or possible young kiss

Work function that should attend

Or Nightclub that’s so good

One is guaranteed to feed

The other understood

Why do I have to choose

Not ready for this yet

I’m in my prime and world is mine

Grabbing what can get

Clapham Junction or that function

Why both on Saturday night

Misery with pleasantly

Or the chance to fight

Work’s okay so they say

Why mix thought out of it

Everyone pretending

None though give a shit

Free drinks but costs the staying

When outside mates are playing

Dress up with the unmentionables

Know just what I’m saying

No ‘talent’ here is what I fear

Unless someone’s brought their Daughter

Yet with the Bloke who thinks it joke

Between us will be slaughter

Clapham Junction come to Croydon

At least that part I miss

Give this doo something new

If you get my gist

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FOR NEW PASTURES

The man did gently slip away

With hand held by loving Wife

Was the time when no Master

Had to go for new pastures

Five Two years had been together

In that time were parted never

This time though had no choice

So did slip after did voice

"If you love me please don’t cry

When I now have to say Goodbye

For is for short time not forever

Until again we are together

Just am going to pastures new

Something some time all must do

Just gone ahead and this time led

Taking chance to make our bed

Where again we will both lie

Soon my dear so please don’t cry"

The Lady choking back her tears

Leant and kissed him so dear

Said to him in reply

As he went with gentle sigh

"Yes I love you so wont cry

For this is not our Goodbye

Yes I’ll join you very soon

Will be just like a Honeymoon

Then will never part again

Then neither will feel this pain

For will be joined in new pastures

When only good things are our Masters"

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FEAST AND FULFILMENT

Join me on this bro I say

For together let words play

Feast, and your halls are crowded,

Succeed and give, and it you live

But no man can help you die,

There is room in the halls of pleasure

For a large and lordly train,

But one by one we must all file on

Through the narrow aisles of pain

Laugh, and the world laughs with you,

Weep, and you weep alone,

The sad old earth must borrow its mirth,

But has trouble enough of it