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On a Cook’s Tour
Borrow two billion Keep spinning the roulette wheel Then just walk away . n.b. Thomas Cook paid around £30 million to a series of Chief Executives over the past few years to keep a debt-laden corporation in business selling holidays to people, many of whom have borrowed money to take a holiday. Money makes the… Read more
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Personal Effects
I cleared my things From our bedroom Except the cuff links On your bedside table They weren’t mine . CLP 23/09/2019 Read more
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Impartial
Is it Balmoral of me to sit here As neutral as Switzerland during the World Wars Accumulating wealth Whilst the United Kingdom Is asset stripped by Austerity Subjecting my subjects To increasing poverty? . I would not like to Buckingham the trend By intervening in such a way Other than to maintain the status quo… Read more
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On Memory
Cluttered to rafters Where to keep all the new stuff? Something has to give . n.b. How does one keep track of a lifetime’s experience? What is retained, what forgot? What is important; what not? Memories of long ago can resurface at the slightest prompt. These can be matters one had not held consciously for… Read more
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Equinox – Autumn
Thickened by the tired air Sticky with ripened fruit Slow, pitch black, distorted, stretched Beyond recognition These shadows of ours Run out Black rivers Bleeding the last of summer’s heat From our veins Onto the misted ground Into the thin air of autumn Warmth no longer from within We become reptilian Bask on the cool… Read more
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On the Bank
Copy to learn fast Why is this frowned on in school? We are social . n.b. Fascinating to watch the swan family this morning. One of the parents started preening before being the cygnets, who followed the example, except one youngster who continued feeding. Eventually all six of the family stood up on the bank… Read more
I write as I wonder as I wander.
Journey of Words 