Journey of Words

Tag: Love

  • on light

    under the new half-moonstumbling hands match fumbling wordstoo dark, or too bright? ~ n.b. Lovers under streetlights taking an unsteady path toward bed, falling over each other in the rush to go somewhere they haven’t been before…absolute beginners. CLP 07/02/2022 →

  • on light

    new moon’s countless starsgiven moment to sparklewhich have you become? ~ n.b. We come from stardust, we become stardust. Look up. We are still with you. CLP 06/02/2022 →

  • on time

    lit fuse splutters, flaresruns smooth, sparkles then silenceexcept our heartbeats ~ CLP 03/02/2022 →

  • on light

    talk to me abouthow you really feel. openmy eyes to your heart ~ n.b. Sometimes the evidence is ignored in hope of something different from the obvious. Seeing the light, speaking the truth, is all part and parcel of friendships, relationships and honest conversation. ~ CLP 02/02/2022 →

  • on Ukraine

    so loud I can’t thinkof anyone else but youRAF practice ~ n.b. On the border, on the edge, on the verge…Russian troops run through a few drills. Here, in Norfolk, fighter jets likewise. What would you be thinking if you were sending your children off to school in Kyiv this morning? ~ CLP 20/01/2022 →

  • on love

    please don’t call nowit cost a lifetime last timeleft me counting days ~ CLP 19/01/2022 →

  • on light

    I rose to meet hershe winked at me through thin treeslost her by sunrise ~ n.b. The full, silver moon led me across town before slipping away – a merry, chilly dance! CLP 18/01/2022 →

  • on white lights

    intermittent wipersbroken linesmarking where to cutthrough naked treesclawing at the sheetof cloudsbright red trianglesblack on whitewarning dartssharp bendswhite on blackapproaching one-eyed carwobbles past close enoughto make me winceand I hear you”Slow down.Watch out for the deer.”And this is what happens;you become part of my worldas I drive toward yours ~ CLP 10/01/2022 →

  • on space

    as I die will I rememberwhen we were in our teenswalking you home, my bicycle to handunder a sky so deepthe enormity of creation emphasisedthe insignificance of us? ~ CLP 25/12/2021 →

  • on time

    quickly faster nowhurry up mustn’t be latethis is all I have ~ CLP 25/12/2021 →