Journey of Words

Tag: Loss

  • Naming

    Let us not pretendNames are unimportantWords are deployed likeBooby-trapped IEDsIf you trip the wireIt cannot be defusedNor put backIn the groundShrapnelPiercing heartsFragmenting argumentsThrough misnomersCall this warOf words and mindsWhile children lieBrokenUnder collapsedApartment blocks ~ n.b. Day 427 (I think). CLP 26/04/2023 →

  • A Broken Heart

    Flapping desperately on the highwayTrying to escape its precarious positionIn the centre of the outside laneStrangely stuck to the tarmacBlack wings flashing deep blueWhen catching the last lightWhat drew it down here?What prevented escape?A bit of victim blaming, I admitDid this crow delay departing?Stay for one last peckof the warm flesh that caught its eye?On-coming →

  • Funereal

    ‘We’ll laugh about this one day’ you saidAs the first handful of soil smuttered on the lidI looked at the other lads, all smart that day, in black coats‘Unlikely’ I’d replied, ‘There’s nothing funny about it.’Typically, it was sunny, belying the moodDaffodils dancing happily in the onshore breezeA few puffy clouds sliding past, against the →

  • on time

    three a.m. againmemories of you flood backvixen barks in street ~ CLP 01/04/2023 →

  • Coast

    westerly pulling at loose coat hoodswhite horses whispering of rainturnstones picking through kelpgulls laughing from beachfront roofswet sand slowly filling in footprintsfaint moon fading in morning azureVenus sinking with all our hopes ~ CLP 30/03/2023 →

  • on Ukraine

    another Spring dawnswar without clear beginningwith no end in sight ~ n.b. The men in Moscow prefer a war economy to something better. Ukraine is being steadily reduced to the new Flanders Fields, where the prospect of better weather, leads to the prospect of increased conflict. CLP 29/03/2023 →

  • on Ukraine

    recruitment drive postersrepeated lies in Moscowswap son for a box ~ n.b. All recruitment campaigns for armed forces show healthy, fit, young people, looking confident; money, fun, patriotism, (death, killing and being seriously maimed are in the unwritten small print). CLP 26/03/2023 →

  • on sleep

    unlit stone alcovesheltered from noise of trafficaligned with concretea man lies down for the nightorganic heap on city street ~ n.b. “…but everywhere, it’s the same.” Some cities have more obvious housing problems than others. CLP 22/03/2023 →

  • on time

    a note on my phonecarried over from handsetupgrade to upgradeas my memory of that momentdiminished, reforms in greywhat was it? evidencefor prosecution, or defenceminutes noted of a crisisin progress as we regressedto parent / childthe damsel / knight dynamiclanced throughby your distressmy confusion CLP 21/03/2023 →

  • on time

    search for happinessdestination board datanow just somewhere else ~ CLP 19/03/2023 →