Journey of Words

Tag: Love

  • on calm

    there is nothing morefor us to say, for this iswhat life has taught us ~ CLP 10/02/2024 →

  • on sleep

    you lay yourself downat last, let go of yourselffed, warm, safe, you rest~ CLP 09/02/2024 →

  • on time

    last hours here for nowmemories scattered like starshappiness in the soil ~ CLP 17/01/2024 →

  • Robin

    snip, clip, cut, pull, clip, clipworking along the hedgein the thick of itdry copper beech rustlingold hop vines twistedresisting my pullingtheir paper thin twinestrong enough to choke the treeweak enough to breakwithout warningleaving me staring upinto the bitter white lightof threatening chill nightwondering how to separatetree from tanglelike me from youand while I am wonderingthinking, →

  • on peace

    I received a link to an impassioned video plea for ceasefire in poetic form. Should an agency cleaner in the basement… By Steve Pottinger. Keep talking about Gaza, keep demanding a ceasefire. Invoke the name of the young conscientious objector Tal Mitnick, imprisoned for 30 days for refusing to believe that “more violence will bring →

  • on December

    a band-aid stretchedover open wounds, fresh cutsbleed through, edges peel ~ n.b. Roll on January Blues, when hurt is exposed to the air and healing can begin. CLP 28/12/2023 →

  • on light

    wavering candle flame sputters into black smokewax cools and hardens ~ n.b. What point is there in carrying a cold torch? →

  • on life

    we spin alongan invisible pathbetween Venusand Marsconnected bydelicate threadssisters, brotherscousinsconstellationsof generationsshifting shapemoving apart CLP 23/12/2023 →

  • alpine peak

    I don’t do skiingNot that slither and slidePick up speedBounce, twist, swooshy thingI don’t need the rushOf hurtling downhillJust to go back upTo do it again, againTake my hand until spring comeswe’ll dancethrough fresh pasturelie on a daisy carpetimpress grass angelsin meadowslisten to cow bellsting off the pineslaugh as we break throughthe clinging skin of →

  • on land

    for what is it worth?vines, wheat, water, grazing, homesfor what it is worth ~ n.b. Ashes to ashes. Recycled carbon. One life. →