Journey of Words

Tag: Belief

  • on freedom

    our choices lie before usour fate determined by those availablea woman scrabbles in the streetpanicking to retrieve cardsthey are blown along the paving in the rainsome spin into a gutterno one helps herwhy would you pick up a wind thrown tarot card lying at your feet?what might it portend?passers-by choose to step carefullynot one wants →

  • on sight

    How many eyes here?Seeing, watching, just lookingWhat really happened?~n.b. Is what you see ever what you get? CLP 12/09/2024 →

  • on light

    If I can’t see itdoes this mean that I am blindor you’ve dreamt it up? ~ n.b. We cannot win arguments about beliefs, it is a well-known fact. CLP 03/05/2022 →

  • About One in Two Hundred Thousands

    Late evening, I walk past the guildhallpride of place epitomised in stoneVictoria’s solid figure set glum-facedstares unseeing across the city squareDid imperial majesty not make you happy, ma’am?Ahead a space, where a big block stoodreduced to its foundations with civic carefloor-by-floor removed kitchens, bathrooms, loungesdown-to-earth homes now groundedThis rebuilt city shifts againfrom its 1940s shattered →

  • Truth, it’s out there

    I I want I want you I want you to I want you to be I want you to be happy ~ CLP 20/01/2021 →

  • The New Lollards

    Believing science a belief Disdainful of vaccinations They place trust in horoscopes Believe homeopathy a medicine Ask the Universe for gifts Think cancer can be cured By a change of diet And are happy to accept Anecdotes as truth Ignorant, as they are, of statistics While doctors of ologies Offering little but snake-oil Milk them →

  • Angels

    At last they are here! Welcome them with open arms. Your dreams become you ~ CLP 13/07/2020 →

  • On Endings (xiv)

    Call local priest in To bless with extreme unction Last chance to sign up . CLP 24/06/2020 →