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Two young families

Eating pizza by the bay;

A joy to behold.

Brian Hick September 2014 Cardiff

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Why is Cardiff Bay

   A magnet for

   Fat women?

Brian Hick September 2014

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Cardiff Bay - 12 Sept 14

I'm glad there is no camera on my phone

Or I'd be sending you an endless steam

Of photos which, though beautiful, will mean

Nothing, when you see them at home,

For tiny pictures on a tiny screen,

Glanced at while you're doing something else,

Cannot hint at all the depth, the wealth,

The detail and the splendour I have seen

Mid-September - and the autumn leaves

Should by now be falling - yet today

I'm basking as we did at Bembridge Quay

Six weeks ago, when we all believed

It would not last; yet it seems there was no haste

For here I am, sitting in the sun

When, in other years the storms have run

Amok, turning once golden leaves to waste.

If only for today let me delight

In unexpected brightness; even as I know

That brazen autumn and the winter snow

Lurk close at hand to snatch away the light.

Brian Hick 12.9.14

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 At the Garcon!  (Cardiff Bay)

The sun is dropping and within an hour

Will cast low shadows right across the bay.

We sit upon the terrace, and assay

The boats in rapid flurry to the pier.

A tourist in St David's hotel snaps

Us, though he wouldn't know we're here

Lost in the evening crowd, who sip a beer

Or sit as we, letting the time slip by

Between the courses of the pre-set meal

- Endive Belge et Supreme de Polet -

Idyllic as a holiday should be

But rarely is; a moment snatched, to heal

          The days when there is never time to say

          That in my heart, life always is this way.

Brian Hick September 2008

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 Train to Cardiff - and back

Is lunch the ultimate enemy of art?

I'd hoped to write something while at ease,

But bagels - the smoked salmon & cream cheese -

With a chilled Sauvignon Blanc to start

Before the chocolate flapjacks - and the need

To catch up with the papers - all conspired

To make me doze away the thoughts inspired

By Cardiff Bay and a new Traviata.

Sunday - and I've only done eight lines;

And even then the last one doesn't rhyme.

The Quiet Carriage ought to aid my mind

But morning coffee and papers fill my time

          Till suddenly we're back at Paddington

          And all that carefully planned time - has gone!

Brian Hick autumn 2009

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 Oh what joy

How can I be depressed

Cardiff Bay

And Pizza Express

Brian Hick July 09

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