Journey of Words

Tag: Hope

  • on Iran

    young people have lostfear of authority’s fistnew freedom riders ~ n.b. During my recent travels in the US I saw a statue of a woman sitting calmly. I saw the image repeatedly: in the Capitol in Washington DC; in Memphis TN; in Birmingham AL. The woman was Rosa Parks. Her determined protest, to sit where →

  • on love

    speak not of absencewhat is it that you valueflowering rosebuds ~ CLP 02/11/2022 →

  • on fear

    why not come alongface life’s dangers togethernot you, nor I. Us. ~ CLP 31/10/2022 →

  • on time

    a moment enoughclues, questions, sufficientto go look for more ~ n.b. A queue, half a conversation. CLP 29/10/2022 →

  • on Iran

    immoralitypolice shoot into protest crowdsWoman! Life! Freedom! ~ n.b. Forty days of mourning for Mahsa Amini has become a rolling wave of grief as other innocent school children (girls and boys alike) have been murdered by the authorities, with others who have committed the capital crime of calling out the repression of a brutal theocracy. →

  • on time

    grandson stands, twists tongueattempts clicking of fingerssoftness of digits ~ CLP 26/10/2022 →

  • on Ukraine

    narrow strip of earthturns into no man’s landtime to draw the line? a telephone ringsagain? so soon? let me seeawkward exchanges death calls at the doorits noose swings from naked treenuclear winter who has the power? ~ n.b. It has come to this. Another conversation, the second in three days. Things are hotting up. CLP →

  • on time

    unfinished books pilewhen will I be able tosit down, rest in peace ~ n.b. I’ll spare you, dear reader, from the photograph of unfinished, some not yet started, books. CLP 23/10/2022 →

  • 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 Ukraine

    dreaming of sleepinginterrupted by sleep’s dreamsawake through nightmares ~ n.b. Terrorism for terrorism’s sake. Moscow’s War on Peace consists undercover of darkness. CLP 16/10/2022 →