• on Ukraine

    after days and nightsdreaming of release from fearKherson wreathed in smiles ~ n.b. Could this the beginning of the end? CLP 14/11/2022

  • on time

    when would suit you best?no time like the present, butnot on a school night ~ n.b. Time is tight, but there are limits.

  • on time

    we’re free or busylucky coincidencesa wonder we met ~ n.b. How many unknown paths intersect in a lifetime? How many known paths divide? CLP 05/11/2022

  • on Iran

    young people have lostfear of authority’s fistnew freedom riders ~ n.b. During my recent travels in the US I saw a statue of a woman sitting calmly. I saw the image repeatedly: in the Capitol in Washington DC; in Memphis TN; in Birmingham AL. The woman was Rosa Parks. Her determined protest, to sit where

  • on fear

    why not come alongface life’s dangers togethernot you, nor I. Us. ~ CLP 31/10/2022

  • on time

    a moment enoughclues, questions, sufficientto go look for more ~ n.b. A queue, half a conversation. CLP 29/10/2022

  • on time

    wait long as you likewater never runs up hillbest to go with flow ~ CLP 25/10/2022

  • on time

    if this is homewhat am I doing about it?home for good or move ~ n.b. Home is not the house, but the location. CLP 15/10/2022

  • on Ukraine

    ask “What was it for?””We are liberating landwithout people on…” ~ n.b. The first quoted line, reported in The Guardian in the UK, are words of a citizen of a town liberated from the retreating invaders. The second, (same source), from a Ukrainian soldier making his way through the ghost towns of the temporarily, but

  • on time

    we live on so longas memories others holdstories shared with love ~ CLP 03/09/2022