Journey of Words

Tag: Hope

  • on country houses

    next time you visitask where from the money stemsplantations, mines, mills ~ n.b. Wow! Look at that beautiful house! Wonderful gardens and lakes. Magnificent gates! The estate wall runs for miles. Wonderful paintings. 1642-1660 the English Revolution that utterly failed and we’re still paying for that failure. CLP 19/12/2022 →

  • on Oregon

    we wake to good newsdeath sentences commutedsunlight breaks through cloud ~ n.b. More killing cannot lead to less killing. Oregon Governor, Kate Brown, has used her executive power to turn all current death sentences in the state’s prisons to life sentences. “Justise is not advanced by taking a life.” she believes. Amen to that. CLP →

  • on Iran

    four thousand life yearsimprisonment for protestswoman, life, freedom ~ n.b. The tyranny under the theocracy tightens. 400 protestors x 10 years each for daring to question the validity of Iran’s legislature. Executions are also being carried out. CLP 13/12/2022 →

  • on time

    discreet flash of goldsee the promise of better?deceit of winter ~ n.b. North Norfolk, December, not Serengeti. CLP 09/12/2022 →

  • on Iran

    how frightened they arehang for ‘an attack on god’shoot to mutilate ~ n.b. These angry men of the theocracy have no answers to the questions being asked of them, except their inhumane treatment of the protesters, which might qualify it as godly, possibly, as gods aren’t human. Every bullet fired into the bodies of women, →

  • on Ukraine

    first frozen windscreensunlight now in monochromethank our lucky stars ~ n.b. Moscow’s robber barons must be carrying a lot of pain for them to seek to inflict such suffering on others. Here, in the UK, we just have to face up to winter’s heartless weather. CLP 06/12/2022 →

  • on time

    Friday evening rusheyes seek out welcome embracenothing else matters ~ CLP 03/12/2022 →

  • on time

    callers would call byshe wanted no tiesa younger man would love herthen think she was hisyou can call by, she’d saywhenever you wantbut I only have callersno one owns methen she met himwith his travelling guitarhis once fair long hairhad long since gone greythe twinkle he carriedin his guitar caseattracted young womenno strings attachedthe two →

  • on Time

    BLM, Ukrainewomen of Iran, China…refuse to be slaves ~ n.b. The national anthem of The People’s Republic of China contains the line; “Rise up those who refuse to be slaves” Being brought up in England, where the national anthem, unusually, is about a person, not the nation, I have not had much time for national →

  • on time

    do you know how longit takes until your scent fadesthe taste of you dulls? ~ CLP 27/11/2022 →