Journey of Words

Category: Poetry

  • on time

    oh, your majestyit’s been a while since you passedI was in a Wimpey ~ n.b. Colmore Row, Birmingham, 1980/81 if I’m not mistaken, finishing a Quarter Pounder with cheese, waiting for the cavalcade to go by. You waved, I didn’t. Rude of me perhaps, but I was eating. CLP 11/06/2022 →

  • on life

    having got this farobstacles and odd stumblesI’m not giving up ~ CLP 12/06/2022 →

  • on time

    family, free, ownquality, personal, goodhalf, full, down, the last ~ CLP 11/05/2022 →

  • on time

    late to the partynobody knows who you areyou’re welcome to stay ~ CLP 11/06/2022 →

  • on time

    enemy or friendpatience versus inertiano sudden movements ~ CLP 11/06/2022 →

  • on paper

    WANTED: space to liveto whom does this all belong?who is it decides? ~ n.b. Land and property is the debate we need to have. CLP 10/06/2022 →

  • on light

    half-moon after rainfalls light on darkened pavementsecho of footsteps ~ CLP 08/06/2022 →

  • on Ukraine xxvi

    there is only so long left of this public examination all is organised to this end our youth bent double drowning in academic gas interpreting Dulce et Decorum est while the RAF shake the building practising manoeuvres, virtue signalling overhead ~ CLP 08/06/2022 →

  • June

    in Englandexam halls fullbiros scribblinghumidity and heatsomeone decreed the tie must be wornthey will hear nothing of the larkcatch not the cuckoo callingcannot simmer in the slow burn to Solsticethe ticking clockninety minutes of mathematicsa pair of blackbirds flush out the jayheron stalking by the weirdeep dwellers snapping at surface midgesreeds revelling with rainbow trouttwo →

  • on land

    walk me through fieldsknee deep grasses, wild flowerswe’ll mow them by hand ~ CLP 06/06/2022 →