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on Ukraine
There are those still at homeThere are those a long way from homeThere are those fighting for their homesThere are those dying in their homesThere are those who are grieving for their homesThere are those making new homesThere are those longing to return home~ CLP 20/10/2025 →
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On the slots
Afterwards, our hands felt dirtyThe tuppenny pieces had rattled from our handsChinged bells, clattered into the piles of coinsTo little noticeable effectThe five pound note still clung to the shelfDangling a worthwhile returnPutting a cap on how many coins we rolled through the slotsMost of what went in fell outWent back inNot free tuppences, just →
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on Ukraine
We can hear them cheeringThrough the chaosIn this cacophony of sirens, drones, bombs, rocketsWe fight on with their tears pooling around our feetWe shake with their griefWe understand their anxietyTheir fear of failureIs it really happening?If they can stop in Gazawhen will we?~ CLP 11/10/2025 →
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on time
I’ve pondered the matter of lifeLimited as it must beIs there life on Saturn’s moons?How would we know?Evidence of life this far outComes not from twitching organismsNot from a pulseNo morse like messageG, A, F (low), F (high), CIt comes from the decaying remainsA trail of decompositionEmitted from the arse of EnceladusA constant outpouring of →
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on memory
you can’t hold everything in your headbit by bit it fadesleaving flint-like fragmentssharp, shiny, hardwhich are sparked by placessongs, photographs, othersa cricket ground by a churcha roadsignthe name of a villagea street namea pub now turned to flatsa make of cara turn of phrasea nicknamea make of cheesea punk band formed by a pair of →
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on time
we’re saying good-bye todaya friend made through cricketknown for how he bowledbent back, arm whipped roundlike a butterfly swimming strokethick mop of black hairswinging across his faceduring the unusual nature of his deliveryoff the wrong foot, it’s saidface looking down at the pitchas the ball left his handfrom his flurry of arms and legsall too →
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on Norfolk
Top Road, Low RoadSchool Road, The GreenChurch Road, Church LaneNorwich Road, The StreetThe Common, Back LaneDirty Lane, Wash LaneChurch Road, Church LaneNorwich Road, The StreetChapel Lane, The LokeRailway Street, The QuayChurch Road, Church LaneNorwich Road, The StreetMill Lane, Mill RoadWater Lane, Dyke RoadChurch Road, Church LaneNorwich Road, The StreetROAD CLOSED AHEADDIVERSION DIVERSIONDIVERSION ENDSChurch Road, Church →
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on the window
squinting as the bus rolls bycasting its shadow on the glare of glassanother locked up shopstripped of its fittingsmail still gets pushed through the chained front doorjunk and official post gathering in the thickening dustan ineffective skimming of white wash to the glassprovides the backgroundto a final thoughtful message from a member of the staffI →
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on Earth
by force of armsthey rose above otherscleared the forestsdrained the fensenclosed the landtilled the soilharvested graintamed and propagated the freehunted down the wildroamed the planetcapitalised slaverywiped the surface for economyoceans became their sewerthe air filled with machineryevery inch of land fencedmarked out on mapsdefined their own legalityuntil their children turnedquestioned historywanted more than bread and →
Journey of Words 