steel stick insects freeze
rigid frames, point out to sea
silent sentinels
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n.b. Just when you though every last piece of land had been concreted over, along comes Monday and the cranes swing back into action.
CLP 22/08/2022
on time
Tag Archives: Earth
on heat
wonder at mankind
trains to Paris undersea
pylons lift cables
systems of power
connect us to each other
bind us to our fate
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n.b. Standing here overlooking Rainham Marshes, watching another bloody sunset, you can hear the electricity cables crackle as they carry charge towards the City of London.
If you listen really carefully, you can hear the insane laughter of stockholders celebrating multi-billions of profits being divvied up by BP, Shell and a few other energy companies, while the Earth’s climate spins inexorably out of control.
Nearby at Wennington, the scenes are of burnt houses, charred trees, scorched earth. Scenes familiar to residents of France, Spain, Portugal, Australia, California. What more proof does this once green and pleasant land need that things have changed, that we must change?
People blithely talk of access to air-conditioning, not aware that more energy is now used on such cooling equipment in summer than that used in winter to heat us. It is we who are being conditioned by the air.
Things have changed. Something’s gotta change.
CLP 04/8/2022
on light
all you can muster
from heaven, Earth and water
celestial blue
~
CLP 21/06/2022
on paper
WANTED: space to live
to whom does this all belong?
who is it decides?
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n.b. Land and property is the debate we need to have.
CLP 10/06/2022
on time
if you get up early
during these short days
get out, walk towards the east
stand still, watch the bright light grow
from deep blue, so blue its almost black
to steel grey
watch the horizon burn
turn, look up at the highest point
study the golden light edging down
the church steeple
the conifer
the pylon
city hall's clock tower
you'll feel the Earth spinning
taking you into a new day
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CLP 14/01/2022
on darkness
this is the limit
solar orbit continues
we move toward light
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n.b. Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Can you feel it! Something to celebrate brothers and sisters.
n.b. This deal does not apply to dwellers in the southern hemisphere.
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CLP 21/12/2021
on competition
going nowhere fast?
there is an alternative
to the free market
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n.b. How can it be free when it’s costing the Earth?
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CLP 26/10/2021
Lunacy
whatever happened
that separated we two
no longer matters
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n.b. The Moon and Earth forever tied, always apart.
CLP 21/10/2021
on time
we approach halfway
between summer and winter
night prepares her cloak
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n.b. Autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere in 2021 falls around 23rd September.
CLP 21/09/2021
On Water xxxix
awe inspiring thought
oceans deeper than mountains
well over my head
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CLP 16/05/2021
Voyage des Mots 