Journey of Words

Category: Poetry

  • delicious

    unsalted butter runningbetween hard-set bubbles of toasted sourdough breadhot crumbs in the corner of your mouthtang of ginger jam on your tonguei could eat eat eat you too ~ CLP 18/09/2021 →

  • on need

    it cannot be foundthrough the bottom of a glassfor love nor money ~ CLP 18/09/2021 →

  • on time

    those tiny thorns torecute as kitten teethsharp as fish hooksdrew blood that slender stem resistedslim as a grass bladestrong as barbed wireresistant that bud closed tightfirm as a fistlocked safe-shutblossomed ~ CLP 17/09/2021 →

  • From Leeds

    enjoying the green space by the cathedralspire pricking the blue autumn skystopping me, now a local, to askwould you take some pictures pleasefirst alone, then with my friendlandscape then portraitmobile then iPadwe’re going home tomorrowto the other city of woolthe one of the hanging sheep ~ CLP 16/09/2021 →

  • Otter

    less curious of usyou curl back belowto twist and curve through straggled reedscontinuing your pursuitof perch or roachyour steady exhalationpops free in tiny splashesfrom bursting bubbles of CO2that trace your submarine pathacross the Yare to the sticky bankgrowing from the falling tideslick as the mud you move incolour of the Yare that feeds youyou halt →

  • Me, Tarzan…

    come on then, come onwhen you think you’re readyif you are sure you cancome on then, come on gather your strengthyou’ll need it allwhen you’ve mined enough couragecome on then, come on deepest night, bright of dayyou choose the time and weaponsI’m not running, I’m fully primedcome on then, come on bare your teeth, beat →

  • Treasure

    how many tides have turnedshifted and smoothedsifted and sorted the pebbles sotoday the sea would give up this stoneso you might gift it meprecious as any stoneI have ever held ~ CLP 13/09/2021 →

  • Long Weekend

    across bridges, through tunnelsdown paths, along tracksso many hours, hundreds of milesI’m on my way backI’m nearly home ~ CLP 12/09/2021 →

  • Last Minute Winner

    a shot smashed in goalrelease of all frustratedtribal emotions ~ CLP 11/09/2021 →

  • Tired

    cat at the tight wound woolcatches a loose loop on a clawpounces, tumbles, rolls and scrabblestwists, skips upa kitten once moreturns and struts toward the kitchen doorfeigning no interesttrailing the skeinunravelling ~ CLP 11/09/2021 →