• Synchronicity

    with no particular place to gospring-heeled Jack waltzed along the lanecaught a falling white featherbrushed it soft on his lipsremembered the lovehe’d cruelly spurnedclutched his heartfell downdead ~ n.b. NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Nine prompt; write a nonet. CLP 09/04/2022

  • on time

    what is going on?I have got all night, all day.how long have you got? ~ CLP 06/04/2022

  • Elmer Sands

    Vastness of skyI float, a star on the shallow bayEvening spreads; a deepening bruiseNothing hurts for nowTomorrow? Do not think of morningOf wakingDarkness incoherent, bright folliclesEmergence of coloursLights. There, the red of Mars!Eventually this fadesSea changes; follows the wind. I riseTomorrow will come, for better or worseEven for us, my love~n.b. This provoked by the

  • Absent Witch Constant Spell

    within and withoutabout and aboveon water in airheld by limbs of dark woodsspun out in high cloudsin setting sun and rising starsbroken moon on the lakedancing through Alpine mistsunk in thermal poolsstrung out by pylonswith their infinite linescaught in corners of roomsby fine webs I’ll be boundwhile her butterfly wings no more can be found

  • on luck (on Ukraine xxii)

    cold rain and Covidare we heating or eating?anything else? ~ n.b. Escape your oppressors, come to the UK. You’ll be welcomed with warm hearts once you have passed HM Border Force with your visa. CLP 30/03/2022

  • on light

    lights, but nobody home to hope, still despair wins until the next time ~ n.b. What is going on in there? Who knows, but more importantly, who cares? The rhythm broken, habits forgotten, routines disrupted; stuff yer Premier League! CLP 28/02/2022

  • on time

    go back, close the gateleave the field of play securepretend it’s over ~ n.b. Can you hear the scythe of the old man swishing through the long grass, or is it just a breeze catching the blossom? CLP 28/03/2022

  • on love

    is it saying itan upwell of emotionor in our actions? ~ n.b. Words begin to fail me. CLP 27/03/2022

  • on memory

    CLP 26/03/2022 so impressed was Iyou lie scratched under my skinreasons still unclear

  • on Ukraine xx

    where is the exit?each day fresh atrocityeveryday the same ~ CLP 20/03/2022