Journey of Words

Tag: Dreams

  • on love

    heard it all before?torn up the script, binned the book?good sense of humour?you’ll need itwhen you find yourself backscanning the shelvesbeing caught by a catchy titlereaching out instinctivelygently pulling at the spinehandling it with respectliking the coversavouring the smell of the fresh-printed pageengaged by the writingchoosing to invest some timeyou take it homedip indiscover this →

  • Apogee

    we can’t get much further awayfrom the summer solsticegrasses tickling your shinssun pink face, a few frecklesbut it’s good to be herewith winter encroachingwith your smilebright as buttercupsyour kisses delicateas sweet pea flowers ~ CLP 18/11/2021 →

  • on morning

    too soon in my viewnight slipped off without askingstealing dreams of you ~ CLP 07/11/2021 →

  • delicious

    unsalted butter runningbetween hard-set bubbles of toasted sourdough breadhot crumbs in the corner of your mouthtang of ginger jam on your tonguei could eat eat eat you too ~ CLP 18/09/2021 →

  • on time

    those tiny thorns torecute as kitten teethsharp as fish hooksdrew blood that slender stem resistedslim as a grass bladestrong as barbed wireresistant that bud closed tightfirm as a fistlocked safe-shutblossomed ~ CLP 17/09/2021 →

  • Treasure

    how many tides have turnedshifted and smoothedsifted and sorted the pebbles sotoday the sea would give up this stoneso you might gift it meprecious as any stoneI have ever held ~ CLP 13/09/2021 →

  • Yesterdays

    toes freed, feet tickledby low-tide’s sandy ribsevery single little breaking wavea chargefired through shocked ankle bonessparking skin, heart, eyeswhipping North Sea air from my lungsMore waves! More waves! More waves!more Yesterdays ~ CLP 09/09/2021 →

  • Dream #n

    what was it that stirred methe curtain catching autumn airbed-softened lips on my cheekyour bra clip clicking shutbrush pulling through your hairthe nib on the notepaperthe trail of last evening’s perfume compressed by the closing doorthe chasm echoing your leaving ~ CLP 04/09/2021 →

  • on the bus

    buy return ticketalways a sensible movechoose to use or burn ~ CLP 03/09/2021 →

  • Ghost

    Aegean blueor is it greenclear to the seabedshadow so sharpit cut me outcast me in stoneanchored meand here I am stillwaiting for youto dive in too ~ CLP 29/08/2021 →