Journey of Words

Tag: Friendship

  • on time

    back again as ifI thought I could ever leaveroots work into soul ~ n.b. Trafalgar Day in Nelson’s county. The statue is Wellington, Nelson is hiding behind the orange and yellow tree in the background. I didn’t find me until after. CLP 21/10/2022 →

  • on time

    furrowed brow of hillautumn’s celestial bluealarmed crows take flight ~ n.b. One of Norfolk’s redundant churches, St Peter’s, Corpusty. It is said to have Norman elements, possibly even Saxon. It hosts an annual service for the Friends of Friendless Churches. The tree to the left of picture hosts a rookery of argumentative corvids. CLP 18/10/2022 →

  • on Iran

    Birmingham’s childrencould not be silenced by hatenor Iran’s school girls ~ n.b. School girls being beaten to death by Iranian security forces for refusing to be told what to wear and what to sing. The Birmingham ‘Children’s Crusade’, equally spontaneous, filled Alabama’s police cells. The children knew that their protests, against violent racism, would clog →

  • 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 music

    run through final barsencores finally completedmelody drifts off ~ n.b. Barbès bar, Brooklyn. Merci et adieu. La fin. CLP 13/10/2022 →

  • on time

    season of quietgathering of leaves reflecttrees’ slow-reveal ~ n.b. How welcome the cool underneath the weeping willow in Brooklyn, unconditioned night air. CLP 12/09/2022 →

  • on streets

    empty eyes, blackenedfingernails, frayed cuffs, alonethrong gets down and dirty ~ n.b. Nashville, Tennessee, ‘The Recording Capital of the World, (as I heard a man in a check shirt, jeans, cowboy boots and a cowboy hat label the place to two men in check shirts, jeans, cowboy boots and cowboy hats), is a busy place →

  • on time

    take it to the streetcity walls a buzz with hopea new Birmingham ~ n.b. Stronger together. Who painted this? Do we fete the artist, applaud the message, or live and work for a stronger, shared future for the peace and security of us all and those who are following in our footsteps? This artwork is →

  • on love

    take the freedom walkfirehoses, dogs, prison barsfour girls as angels ~ n.b. Birmingham, Alabama, once the frontline of the hate line, a victory for love. I studied at Birmingham Polytechnic in the period 1978 – 82. Coming to its namesake city has been an education. Real friendly place, as the locals might say, but do →

  • 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 →