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Worcester

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It only works out on the third attempt
The first two thwarted
One by torrents
One by rejection – now is not the time.

I've known you since I've learnt perception
Waiting by the unready vines
Yet to hang low with grapes
For the time to come

And also I have known you
Since the pale-eyed nymphs frolicked in your gardens
But
Though I knew you
I came with my own intents and ambition
Under the light of the crane
Today I come for you Worcester
Looking for you, seeing you at last
As you've always been
Only I have changed.

I know how precious your cottages are
How important they are to preserve
Your hair splays down over their walls

How luscious, how rich, how green, key and green
Your front quad is
Gazing straight at me
Maybe I see a significance in your deeds Worcester
That is not there
But I so want it to be
Creepers idly being twisted
But your mind not absent

This lakes looks good
For drifting away
I believe it did happen
Sometimes faith is enough for walking on the water
And sometimes the things we leave undone will haunt us.

[I cannot crow 'I did it!'
It's not about effort
Not here, Worcester
One basks, lets the tears well]

I have pictured the semiotics
Of the sacraments of romance
That there is no act without meaning.

I found an empty egg shell
Milky and jade green
And I held it

The canal up to Jericho
Runs alongside
I'm anchored in your ways/
I've always said this city will fall
But only to receive a kiss
A single kiss at sunset

Yet here is where you come to watch the sunset
Worcester
Watch the indigo rise
Amidst the crimson
And your house in Narnia
Watch it where your buildings offer no resistance
Where the sky is free
As its visage
Metamorphoses
(Prior to the Ovidian love story)
Free to be with you Worcester
No questions
No meaningful ulterior walks

And your beauty is not
Even close
To what has already passed
We will build, construct love in your courts, Worcester
Manifold and magnificent as they are.
Worcester College
Founded 1714

I’m Anchored in Your Ways/And I am the Alchemist

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BlackInfinity666's avatar
that's awesome, very well done.