Requi3mX

The Panama Poems
          In a story too long to tell, we have ended up on a surreally wonderful holiday in Panama. With time to let myself unwind and escape the tough challenges of recent years, including the third recurrence of H.'s cancer, and my father's death, I suddenly found myself able to write again.
          
          I am sorry for rudely crashing into your inboxes again, but I have rediscovered a joy in words and am excited.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1640118747-fragments-and-reflections-i-on-seeing-the-pacific
          https://www.wattpad.com/1640119320-fragments-and-reflections-ii-moment
          https://www.wattpad.com/1640120669-fragments-and-reflections-iii-meeting-again
          https://www.wattpad.com/1640121078-fragments-and-reflections-iv-airport-small-talk 
          https://www.wattpad.com/1640122076-fragments-and-reflections-volc%C3%A1n-bar%C3%BA
          https://www.wattpad.com/1640122478-fragments-and-reflections-these-lives

It turns out I had written more than I thought in what I thought were fallow years. These are poems of love, loss, fields and seas.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1640101711-other-loves-dreams
          https://www.wattpad.com/1640102638-other-loves-these-years
          https://www.wattpad.com/1640106253-other-loves-hope
          https://www.wattpad.com/1640106933-other-loves-i-will-hold-you-fast
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/1640108310-fragments-and-reflections-a-suffolk-retreat
          https://www.wattpad.com/1640109387-fragments-and-reflections-a-cornish-walk-in-early
          https://www.wattpad.com/1640110309-family-friends-faith-and-me-granny 
          https://www.wattpad.com/1640110974-fragments-and-reflections-new-year%27s-eve 
          https://www.wattpad.com/1640112691-family-friends-faith-and-me-the-puddle-sommelier
          https://www.wattpad.com/1640114705-family-friends-faith-and-me-she-dances 
          https://www.wattpad.com/1640115272-family-friends-faith-and-me-one-night

Words came back. Here, in Panama for just a little while, with nothing else to do. And I have found some odd old writings as well as the new and so I am posting them here. Sorry for invading your inbox.
          
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          https://www.wattpad.com/1640094988-family-friends-faith-and-me-the-birthday

I am not here very often these days but I still like to occasionally share the few poems I write. Three more, from last year and this.
          
          I Love
          https://www.wattpad.com/1529675444-other-loves-i-love 
          
          A Christmas Concert in York Minster
          https://www.wattpad.com/1529676306-family-friends-faith-and-me-a-christmas-concert-in
          
          Let Me Sail
          https://www.wattpad.com/1529675880-other-loves-let-me-sail
          
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Hello, everyone. It has been a long time since I made an announcement and I have not really kept posting my (limited) output here. But still... Some words.
          
          This was written for my best friend from childhood, meeting again after many years:
          
          Anna
          https://www.wattpad.com/myworks/31995658/write/1486804526
          
          These three short poems were inspired by a holiday to Florence, one of my favourite cities:
          
          Last Afternoon in Florence
          https://www.wattpad.com/1486796703-fragments-and-reflections-last-afternoon-in
          
          Santa Maria Novello
          https://www.wattpad.com/1486797371-fragments-and-reflections-santa-maria-novello
          
          Churches of Florence
          https://www.wattpad.com/1486797820-fragments-and-reflections-churches-of-florence
          
          These three poems were written for my incredible H:
          
          Down in the Valley Below
          https://www.wattpad.com/1486794672-other-loves-down-in-the-valley-below 
          
          One Night
          https://www.wattpad.com/1486795772-other-loves-one-night
          
          Aspects of You
          https://www.wattpad.com/1486796357-other-loves-aspects-of-you
          
          I have found writing so much harder in recent years. I hope you enjoy these.
          
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Little writing this year, but this was for a special occasion and I somehow pulled it together over some weeks. Strange how words come and go.
          
          I realise I am rarely here, but I do hope you are all keeping well.
          
          Req/Ben
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/900160342-other-loves-anniversary

A poem from earlier this month.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/841388274-other-loves-unsaid
          
          Ben/Req

There are a few here that have been sitting around for a while. Still waiting for the words to come back properly, but I will put up with fits and starts for now.
          
          Blackbirds was inspired by walking through a part of Leeds last Autumn I wouldn't ordinarily choose to visit (Seacroft). There were high trees and blackbirds and I was reminded of how I used to love listening to them in the garden when I lived in Essex.
          
          Helmsley 1 and 2 are what happens when you get old and you forget you have already written a poem about a day out with a friend.
          
          Learning You. Self-explanatory I think.
          
          Blackbirds
          https://www.wattpad.com/832666726-fragments-and-reflections-blackbirds
          
          Helmsley 1
          https://www.wattpad.com/832667435-other-loves-helmsley-1?preview=true
          
          Helmsley 2
          https://www.wattpad.com/832668713-other-loves-helmsley-2
          
          Learning You
          https://www.wattpad.com/832669378-other-loves-learning-you?preview=true
          
          Have a gentle day.
          
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A romantic poem I haven't previously published. There are a few of these in my drafts.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/810170604-other-loves-first-kiss

A new poem. They are coming slow, but at least they are coming. 
          
          I live in the north of England now and I wonder how I ever survived living near London and working in the centre of the city:
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/809400450-look-on-with-rage-helter-skelter