Journey of Words

Journey of Words…latest posts

  • Deletion

    I sense something not quite rightA disco nnectionIs there some thingGoing wrong?Tired? Weary? Aged?In a place I don’t recognise. ~ CLP 06/06/2024 Read more

  • on time

    Eighty years ago, tonightSuffolk fields heard the roarOf engines fired upAs the 446th took off for FranceFor libertyThey led the lineInto Fortress Europe n.b. This memorial stands at the site of the disused airbase, near Flixton, Suffolk. No names given, just the numbers: 66 aircraft lost, 456 men killed in action. ‘Remember them’ we’re told. Read more

  • on housing

    and they huffedand they puffedand had fourteen years in powerbut like everything elsethey touchedit brokethere is nothing they can sayto convince usthat they deserve another chancelook!here by the rivera tentis this a tourist camping cheapor the start of an encampment?under the bridgean old battered boat is tiedwhere no mooring fees applywashing hanging on wiresthe jumble Read more

  • on truth

    memory is goodspreadsheet better t.b.hdata doesn’t lie ~ n.b. Does anyone trust utility companies to tell the truth? Lies of omission, confusion pricing, ‘estimates’. Where’s the truth? CLP 03/06/2024 Read more

  • on time

    wait at the crossingnothing to do but switch offthis choo-choo will pass ~ CLP 02/06/2024 Read more

  • on Ukraine

    This dreadful summerLonger, dry daysLighter, warm nightsFog of war persists~n.b. Still Moscow sends its sons to kill or be killed on Ukraine’s soil. Go home! CLP 02/06/2024 Read more