Journey of Words

Tag: Friendship

  • Passing Conversation at the Service Station, Folkestone, Kent, October 2019

    They’d not seen each other for simply agesIt used to be regular, when they’d got their wagesOff for an evening, best clobber onLeaving at home Bert, Harry and Ron (except, that Ron’s been long since gone)You still doing those dating sites?Asked Sheila, needing to adjust her tightsYes. replied her friend with a weary sighKnowing they →

  • Funereal

    ‘We’ll laugh about this one day’ you saidAs the first handful of soil smuttered on the lidI looked at the other lads, all smart that day, in black coats‘Unlikely’ I’d replied, ‘There’s nothing funny about it.’Typically, it was sunny, belying the moodDaffodils dancing happily in the onshore breezeA few puffy clouds sliding past, against the →

  • on time

    three a.m. againmemories of you flood backvixen barks in street ~ CLP 01/04/2023 →

  • on time

    years ago we metyou couldn’t find the right keynow, you play them all ~ n.b. Fantastic to regularly hear new music from https://contradusk.bandcamp.com/album/piano-selections-2015-2018 This link will take you to a retrospective collection of Michael’s own piano pieces. CLP 26/03/2023 →

  • on time

    search for happinessdestination board datanow just somewhere else ~ CLP 19/03/2023 →

  • on time

    who knows our future?everything fine in mirrormake the leap with faith ~ CLP 18/03/2023 →

  • on life

    every place I’ve livedMilton Glazer’s Dylan framedtogether through life ~ n.b. The last frame (which was the first) broke in the move…now re-framed. Is that a metaphor? CLP 16/03/2023 →

  • on Sunday

    after Saturdaycomes morning. Monday’s not badblues follow bruising ~ n.b. Sunday seems to be the hardest day. Do you feel that too? CLP 12/03/2023 →

  • on time

    the door closeshalf the remaining distancethen half the remaining distanceagain half that distancewill it ever be securely closed? ~ n.b. Old Greek philosophical question. CLP 09/03/2023 →

  • on ice

    how bad could it get?frost to frozen conditionstentative footsteps ~ CLP 09/03/2023 →