Journey of Words

Category: Poetry

  • Amoral

    Everywhere you’ve been Everything you’ve done I have been there with you I have seen it all Despite my blind spot No doubt stemming From my nervous disposition That allows me to see But not believe, nor deny All that I have seen . It’s not for me to judge Where you’ve been What you’ve →

  • Natural Consequences

    Anarchronistic Britain Cannot decide European future Government has ignored Knife mayhem & numerous other pointed questions Requiring serious thought. Unburied victims wait Xenoliths Yield to zymogenes n.b. “&” was the 27th letter of the English alphabet Xenoliths are small particles of elements found within larger deposits of mineral, rare elements amongst dross. Zymogenes are the →

  • Emotional Blackmail

    “I just want my kids to be happy” So commonly heard So unthinking said And missing the point Of parenthood And childhood . “I don’t care what he does, as long as he’s happy” What the children know of their parents Who want them just to be happy Is that they hold the keys To all →

  • Train of Thought

    At last I have a moment As I wait on the platform My chance to make a few points About my direction of travel On a journey that seems to still have some miles to go I pray But I cannot be too confident of that Bearing in mind that there has been disruption to →

  • The Witch

    A pronounced bow wave Presages her imminent arrival Her keel knifes the dark waters Peels twin curls off the surface . She draws down the light of stars Calls the wind to her direction Tides pause on her command Squalls and storms follow . Treading water as she passes We can only witness this spirit →

  • Meltdown

    I could not tell you when it was But I see the moment even now She made a point of coming in 24 carat gold still on her hand Me at my desk, gladly interrupted “You can have it back. I set you free” As if I had asked for it to end Her choice →

  • Oh, Where Have You Come From, My Blue-Eyed Boy?

    I come from Malmo Its low gentle farmland Mudflats by the Øresund I come from beneath the cavernous sky Of the Lincolnshire fens I come from the tops of Cork’s raging cliffs And sea-carved bays I come from coal-stained valleys that cut Through Merthyr’s coal-drained hills To Cardiff’s terraced streets I come from the Blitzed →

  • Beginning and End of the Day

    Pine cones lay shut tight on the bed of soft needles that have gathered under the Scot’s Pine trees that border the rain-stained path. A grey squirrel scutters up the trunk and leaps to an adjacent branch, where it stops in frozen motion, alert to possible threat; the branch gently swaying from the weight of →

  • The Groundsman’s Marriage

    It wasn’t easy (It never is) To repair the ends Between the showers Of our endless arguments But regular use of the light roller With judicious use Of the elephant’s foot And a straight edge Gave us a true surface To play on . CLP 08/04/2019 n.b. NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 8 prompt: Workplace terminology as →

  • Toll

    I’ve been travelling now for a very long time “Trying to get as far away from myself as I can” Now it’s getting light; must be the end of the line . Got to get some rest, I’m past my prime I’ve been moving from town to town without any plan I’ve been travelling now →