Journey of Words

Category: Poetry

  • Loose Bound Cover

    The story of my life Fell to the floor All the pages scattered I picked them up And stuck them back The order didn’t matter . CLP 16/08/2019 →

  • On August (II)

    Evenings shorten Moonrise turns grasses to snow Nights separate days CLP 14/08/2019 →

  • On August

    Fruit hangs heavily Branches bent to near breaking Sun, set to your work . CLP 14/08/2019 →

  • On Sand

    Running through our hands Can you see each grain that passes? Feel them? Taste the grit? . CLP 13/08/2019 →

  • On A Strong Constitution

    Since Magna Carta Has anything been writ down That’s worth the paper? . n.b. There is no written constitution in the UK. Vietnam’s constitution is based on the USA consitution that drew heavily on the “Rights of Man” written by Thomas Paine, an Englishman from Lewes in Sussex. He was chased from his home country →

  • Angels Shriek

    Confusion of days and nights Twisted sheets tumble across flickering sky Darkness thrown across the wind-wrecked barley Martins and swallows prematurely gather Uncertain in this unsettled time When waxing moon throws out more brightness than day can muster The star-full firmament clashed by raw, untrammelled fury Full throttled fire-powered flight Claws at the clouds, turns →

  • The Test

    Welled up through chalk; clear and bright Mixed with floodplain mud Strained through reeds Her gentle curves Restrained, contained within lines Corsetted by stone, steel and concrete She spills down the neck of Southampton Water Runs to the welcome arms of the silent sea Washed clean again on the double tide . n.b. The port →

  • In A Vacuum

    You hear what you want Without dissenting voices Everything is true . n.b. If we only connect with those we agree with we learn nothing. How do we connect with those we stand opposite to in opinion and belief? . CLP 09/08/2019 →

  • On Relection

    Glass mirrors times past What is new that you see there? Open the window . n.b. El Presidente visited El Paso and said to the press corps, “I wish you could have been there to see it.” What did he mean, the appalling damage caused by a single young man with a rifle? No, he →

  • Under A Cloud

    Wind chimes resonate With whispers from weary leaves Tears flood the desert . n.b. Texas has a complicated history; a place of moving people, territorial disputes, economic and political upheaval. More than 10,000 years of identifiable settlement, a piece of land with an ever-changing cast and shifting borders. . CLP 07/08/2019 →