Tag Archives: Love

on distance

Your correspondence
Shapes a response within me
It's as if you're here

~

CLP 03/06/2023

on time

it's crept up on us
separation stretches to
another Moonrise

~

n.b. That’s enough now.

CLP 03/06/2023

on distance

a street name conjures 
images of smiles, blue eyes
warmth of your presence

~

CLP 01/06/2023

on distance

we both see the Moon
watch the Evening Star descend
wish on shooting stars

–

n.b. Kilometres dissolve.

CLP 31/05/2023

on time

Remember walking?
Sun breaking through fresh-formed leaves
Ancient paths through oaks

~

CLP 28/05/2023

on light

despite everything
you are something quite special
breath-taking beauty

~

CLP 25/05/2023

on Ukraine

'Bakhmut is Gone' now
its name remains on a map
shells have left mere shells

~

n.b. Today the New York Times shows film taken from a drone of the broken city. Three people huddled by a wall, checking whether it is safe to creep around the corner of a block, on their journey to god knows where, through the rubble.

An explosion splays dirt and debris in the air, as another another artillery round lands. Vandalism on a municipal scale.

So, this is what Moscow argues is the price Ukrainian people must pay to be ‘freed’ from self-rule and government by their own elected representatives. This is liberation?

CLP 23/05/2023

on time

on empty platform
I coulda, woulda, shoulda
your train long departed

~

n.b. When’s the last train?

CLP 11/05/2023

at last

is it just like
that
a flat line running
until the monitor is switched off
cleaned down, prepared
for another
or are there hiccoughs
glitches
hesitations, lost hours
resumptions
imperceptible
diminuation of spark
until the inevitable
the flame extinguished
but no smoking candle
just gone

~

CLP 09/05/2023

Full Cycle

Take me in your arms
Under the full moon
In the cool air
Of early May
Owls celebrate
Their rites of spring
In the woodland
Along the ridge
Bluebells unfold
Before the foliage above
Steals all the light
Shades in silver shadows
The church bell
Chimes the quarter past
It's early yet
Still time for bed
Hold me in your arms
We'll watch the full moon set
From our warm sheets
In early May

~

n.b. It keeps coming round, lighting our steps, marking our progress.

CLP 05/05/2023