Journey of Words

Tag: Friendship

  • on Ukraine xxiv

    children of Bilohorivkataught to shelter under deskswent to school as children doregistered as children musteach morning and for every classwere among those registered again todayin the rubble, broken glass and dust ~ n.b. Sixty people sheltering in a school in the neighbourhood of Luhansk were killed on 7th May. Today, 8th May is Freedom Day →

  • on fear

    does everything change?is it for better or worseor is life affirmed? ~ n.b. How do we decide, by taking the opportunity, or by taking a risk? CLP 03/05/2022 →

  • on time

    it is all we haveyesterday is not todaywe shape tomorrow ~ n.b. The hands of time are in our hands, the sands of time run through our fingers. CLP 02/05/2022 →

  • on time

    Is there any plan?Does there have to be a plan?River gently flows ~ CLP 02/05/2022 →

  • on friendship

    at nights’s darkest pointI woke knowing you were hereit wasn’t a dream ~ n.b. How strange and lovely it is to feel another’s presence despite their absence. I woke, reached out and realised this presence was in my heart. I smiled, returned happily to sleep. CLP 28/04/2022 →

  • Svetlana Polkadotova

    Smart, like a slap to the face.She suffered fools the way a cat strips feathers from a blackbird hauled indoors through the cat-flap.When she spoke she held a man’s attention, like a foot soldier’s attention holds when the Field Marshall approaches down the line.We’d met by chance, the kind of chance you’d have crossing Interstate →

  • London

    you held my handin the crowdI led you gentlywe walked through Saturdaysaw the cityopening like tulipswe shared our foodin Brick LaneBrasserieyou slepton the trainhead on my shoulderit felt like lovetasted like lovelooked like love ~ CLP 24/04/2022 →

  • Pillow Talk

    Where were we when you saidIt is okay for me to say “tu”?I could not reciprocate, there is nothingin English to convey such subtle changeThat step from formal to familiarFrom mannered speech to intimateIt exposed the Anglo-Saxon in me tooMy lack of ease dealing in greyMy lack of language to expressEmotions too layered for me →

  • Inexplicable

    New moon over the lakePerseids showering the peaksSheerbeautyofCreationYou had to be thereSo very sillyLike children repeatingPooWeeWillyBumYou had to be thereIn the Arrivals hallAfter unexplained delayWaitingWaitingWaitingWaitingYou had to be thereAt the stationUnstoppableI thought it strangeWe hadhadaplanYou had to be thereLockdown over EuropeMy body burned for youSunshinespringflowersbirdsongYou had to be there~ n.b. NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Eighteen prompt: →

  • Why getting up and stepping out is better than drawing the blinds and giving up

    last owlfirst blackbirdruffled wrencrow drifts from stricken oakgull sets down by upturned binstarlings strung out overheadpuffed up pigeon pursuing hensparrows clusterblue tit picking cherry blossomwoodpecker working through the parkmallard mutters while wandering pastrobin sings to robin across the pathoh! happiness of goldfinches ~ n.b. NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Thirteen: living with hope in your heart. CLP →