Journey of Words

Tag: Life

  • Suspects Held for Questioning

    Three suspects are being questioned in the recent Norwich carrotting case. Refusing to answer questions. They think by keeping cool they’ll get away with it. Time to put the heat on them. ~ CLP 11/02/2021 →

  • Snow Falling on Cedric

    It was a black and white kind of day. I took a turn into town and found this stiff on the street. At first I thought, ‘Poor guy, he’s frozen to death’ but then I recognised him, Cedric! I called the cops, he had been carrotted. ~ CLP 10/02/2021 →

  • L3 (Day 34) Carrow Bridge

    Bemused pigeons and gulls chase lifting snowflakes above the Wensum not being au fait with weather maybe thinking things that fly up contain protein not just ice or were they playing as school children might flapping around with mouths wide trying to catch ice crystals on waggly tongues having heard that each flake is unique →

  • Pyjamas

    Ridiculous melodramas Between two Who once dispensed with their pyjamas ~ n.b. With all due respect to YLC x CLP June 2020 →

  • Snow Globe

    That beastly howling stopped and let the snow flakes fall up as well as down ~ CLP 08/02/2021 →

  • L3 (Day 32)

    Carrow Hill blurs; mist gives way to an easterly wind moving people urgently along the street except those that can’t, who shuffle wrapped in padded coats. . Thorpe St Andrew beyond the railway behind a grey shroud of rain is the backdrop to the shopping park lit bright at noon. Darkness is upon us. . →

  • On Reflection

    Echoed words recede Ripples on the lake flatten Clarity of air ~ CLP 04/02/2021 →

  • L3 (Day 30): Betula Pendula

    Along with buddleja, the silver birch, (betula pendula) is often the first tree to set down roots and become established in the most unlikely situations. It grows fast and its white bark seems to split under the stress of holding the slender trunk together as it shoots up. It quickly becomes a tree of ornamental →

  • On Friendship (continued)

    We have all the time required to be gentle. Friendship will endure. ~ CLP 03/02/2021 →

  • L3: Day 29 On The Bridge

    I was walking back from the shop, carrying a paper bag of groceries in my arms when I reached the bridge. I have been here before, but not like this. There has usually been some kind of run up, run out, or just gradually being run down. Not this time. I just thought, from nowhere →