Journey of Words

Tag: Life

  • on home

    Offered up without a thought“Stay”How warm the welcomeHow deep the needEscape it allYou’ll never leave“Stay”Where you are happyTake up the offerWithout a thoughtYou can stayIf you don’t have somewhere elseYou’d have to leave ~ CLP 12/06/2024 →

  • on time

    I am determined to sit outTo drink my chaiIt’s the eleventh of JuneA date higher than the temperatureLook at us!Coated, booted, collars upHands in pocketsMourningThe death of summerScythed down from the northI have enjoyed better weatherHereIn November~ CLP 11/06/2024 →

  • on time

    grab it while you cansuch precious serene secondssand runs through fingers ~ CLP 10/06/2024 →

  • on time

    the young men I watchedas a kidplay footballwin trophiesare old men nowill, dying, deadmaybe it is sadbut I am gladI saw them playat their peakproviding memoriesof which I can speakthey light firesin my eyes stillDavies, Hiron, BallI still see them all ~ n.b. There are many, many more. Thank you lads. CLP 09/06/2024 →

  • on cycling

    ‘when the fun stops stop’the gambling adverts adviseas they play with our headsthere’s no such thingas free moneyit costs a lot to winand winning can cost everythingif you are bicyclingwhen the fun stopsyou’ve just got to keep onspinning those wheelsuntil something shiftsgears in your headstopping is not an optionthe fun becomes being ~ n.b. For →

  • on Broadmarsh

    built, abandonedpart-demolishedin a lifetimedecay of a vibrant cityrusting steel wiredusty crumbling concrete wallstwisted metal window framesboarded off from pedestrianswho are diverted up the hillpast the empty shell of Debenham’swhere the busker singsThings Have Changed ~ n.b. Nottingham has changed. Improved? Not for a visitor to say. Bob Dylan link here. CLP 06/05/2024 →

  • Deletion

    I sense something not quite rightA disco nnectionIs there some thingGoing wrong?Tired? Weary? Aged?In a place I don’t recognise. ~ CLP 06/06/2024 →

  • on truth

    memory is goodspreadsheet better t.b.hdata doesn’t lie ~ n.b. Does anyone trust utility companies to tell the truth? Lies of omission, confusion pricing, ‘estimates’. Where’s the truth? CLP 03/06/2024 →

  • on time

    wait at the crossingnothing to do but switch offthis choo-choo will pass ~ CLP 02/06/2024 →

  • Summertime Blues

    Is it worseWhen bad weather sets inTo be in winterOr summertimeAt least it’s expectedWhen the days are shortBut in the summerThere’s always hope ~ n.b. It was so cold out today in Suffolk that I packed up and left early and came back to the city. So cold and so wet. CLP 31/05/2024 →