nothing to see here
it's everywhere else you look
glass house, stones to hand
~
n.b. Seems like these days, everyone carries a pocketful of stones, just in case, but that’s Social Media for you.
CLP 19/01/2023
Tag Archives: Memory
on history
immediately
all dreams dissolved, fear took grip
each day feels endless
~
n.b. Faith in The Great Healer crumbles, as Time slows and every single second chews up and spits out another a piece of the soul, in slow motion.
Ever done something you wish you had not?
CLP 17/01/2023
on time
different but the same
morning light yet to arrive
ready to depart
~
CLP 15/01/2023
on time
return anywhere
never quite what it had been
if memory's true
~
n.b. We rely on our versions of events, people, places to negotiate each day.
Confusion comes with fading memory. Understanding comes with wisdom. Truth is defined by the storytellers.
CLP 26/12/2022
on Ukraine
Russia's Christmas plans
gifts of death, destruction, grief
we cannot forget
~
n.b. Ukraine’s Christmas festivities start from 7th January. Russian attacks on Kherson and Bakhmut are designed to spread the word that the terror continues, so our slow news holidays are filled with gloom.
CLP 24/12/2022
on country houses
next time you visit
ask where from the money stems
plantations, mines, mills
~
n.b. Wow! Look at that beautiful house! Wonderful gardens and lakes. Magnificent gates! The estate wall runs for miles. Wonderful paintings. 1642-1660 the English Revolution that utterly failed and we’re still paying for that failure.
CLP 19/12/2022
on ice
I fell through, aged five
chest deep, my sister in too
buried memories
~
n.b. Sadness as old as winter itself, children falling through ice while playing, excited by the magic ice promises.
I cannot imagine the inconsolable grief the parents must be experiencing.
CLP 14/12/2022
on Iran
four thousand life years
imprisonment for protests
woman, life, freedom
~
n.b. The tyranny under the theocracy tightens. 400 protestors x 10 years each for daring to question the validity of Iran’s legislature.
Executions are also being carried out.
CLP 13/12/2022
on time
callers would call by
she wanted no ties
a younger man would love her
then think she was his
you can call by, she'd say
whenever you want
but I only have callers
no one owns me
then she met him
with his travelling guitar
his once fair long hair
had long since gone grey
the twinkle he carried
in his guitar case
attracted young women
no strings attached
the two of them met
she said something clicked
she, a bar woman
he, guitar man
callers went packing
young women sent back
these two had four years
before slowly he died
four years of true loving
was what they had
the love of her life
she was grateful for that
~
n.b. Everyone has a story. I heard this one recently. Deeply moved by it, I was.
CLP 01/12/2022
on time
you, obviously
in such a rush to undress
I found a button
~
CLP 30/11/2022
Voyage des Mots 