• Dream

    no fleeting momentwe spoke at length of things passedyour visit prolonged ~ CLP 14/11/2022

  • on Iran

    let’s face up to factsimmorality police killJin. Jiyan. Azadi. ~ n.b. Women of Iran unmasking them, is what the men of the brutal theocracy fear most. CLP 10/11/2022

  • on Ukraine

    step lightly returningsons of Russia sleep nextpeople of Kherson ~ n.b. What a criminal waste of human life. 260 days of war, for what, Moscow? CLP 10/11/2022

  • on Iran

    young people have lostfear of authority’s fistnew freedom riders ~ n.b. During my recent travels in the US I saw a statue of a woman sitting calmly. I saw the image repeatedly: in the Capitol in Washington DC; in Memphis TN; in Birmingham AL. The woman was Rosa Parks. Her determined protest, to sit where

  • on love

    speak not of absencewhat is it that you valueflowering rosebuds ~ CLP 02/11/2022

  • on fear

    why not come alongface life’s dangers togethernot you, nor I. Us. ~ CLP 31/10/2022

  • on Ukraine

    is it beyond themcan peace come from up on high?powerless people ~ n.b. Look at who is suffering. What have they done to deserve this? Bombing civilians, destroying infrastructure of Kyiv, what strength you demonstrate, Moscow! What a man! CLP 31/10/2022

  • on Iran

    immoralitypolice shoot into protest crowdsWoman! Life! Freedom! ~ n.b. Forty days of mourning for Mahsa Amini has become a rolling wave of grief as other innocent school children (girls and boys alike) have been murdered by the authorities, with others who have committed the capital crime of calling out the repression of a brutal theocracy.

  • on time

    grandson stands, twists tongueattempts clicking of fingerssoftness of digits ~ CLP 26/10/2022

  • on time

    more shooting in schoolSt. Louis gathers more ghostssoulless at its heart ~ n.b. It was just four weeks ago I walked past Central Visual & Performing Arts High School on Arsenal Street. It was a beautiful, sunny morning. Pass any school in the USA and it sets one thinking about intruder prevention, safety drills, panic