Journey of Words

Journey of Words…latest posts

  • On the Roof

    in shorts and t-shirts all but seven days ago swallows presaged snow ~ CLP 07/04/2021 Read more

  • Nice Work Woody & Johnny

    ~ Great to have you back writing in tandem! Congratulations on being selected for the NaPoWriMo poem / poets of Day 5, 2021. hallucinated ambush Press on and don’t spare the horses! ~ CLP 06/04/2021 Read more

  • Can I come in? It’s not safe out there

    …it never has been, I thought I read the news, have seen the stats hear the doppler rise and fall of sirens bouncing off the city walls insistent on untrammelled passage scrambling wits of locked in drivers blocked in lanes unsure quite where the blue lights approach from or head toward, what they are and Read more

  • On Water

    Inundation flows finds a level then settles serene water fowl ~ n.b. Today a bitter northerly brought snow to the air and pushed the tide higher, so that the rivers spilled into low pasture, ducks, geese and swans followed. ~ CLP 05/04/2021 Read more

  • Herds

    Based on ‘Words’ by Tadeusz Różewicz (translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston) Published by archipelago books (New York, 2007) Herds Herds are rounded up treated as fodder for innocent smiles reduced to mere patties sold by a clown . macerated with machined steel compressed into packets wrapped conveniently for shipping . distant forests have Read more

  • Do Not Alight Here…

    …the sign on the platform read provoking that bloody-minded reaction he saw as proof of living a life still worth it, worth everything worth going to bed with a stranger once more here might be the place that could throw things up burn the throat, whet the tongue revive, refresh, rekindle the screech of parakeets Read more