Remember walking?
Sun breaking through fresh-formed leaves
Ancient paths through oaks
~
CLP 28/05/2023
Tag Archives: Mental Health
on light
despite everything
you are something quite special
breath-taking beauty
~
CLP 25/05/2023
on light
Life twenty or so floors up
Must have some angles not appreciated
By those habituated at ground level
Like watching the crescent Moon sink
towards the ground floor
Does it ever feel as if the Moon lies
Beneath you, for example?
~
n.b. The Moon, devoid of life, full of magic and mystery. Talk me through that one.
CLP 22/05/2023
on colour
nothing matches green
not even green matches green
every leaf a gem
~
CLP 18/05/2023
on time
talk me through reasons
why tomorrow's important
today's all there is
~
n.b. Just seen Walter Trout perform, nine years after he was given a new liver. Nine years of LIFE. Today is it. Whatever you hope for, do it now.
p.s. He’s the real deal!
CLP 17/05/2023
on time
there's an old saying
have a good time, all the time
is that possible?
~
n.b. Brighton gives it a bloody good go!
CLP 17/05/2023
14th May
See what happens?
You finally make an effort
To shrug off Winter's grim shroud
Music, dancing
smiles, joyful tears
and yes, the swifts
Swooping and slicing
through the humid air
skimming chimney pots
Their shrieking and screaming
is, I suppose,
what they excuse as singing
~
n.b. No guarantee of a good summer.
CLP 15/05/2023
thunder storm
In false warmth of May
Anvil clouds pile up
Eclipse the blue
Cast down hail stones
Lightning spearing the gloom
Basal crashes shaking the old town
Stair rods rattling on the streets
Don picks up his bedroll
Seeks shelter
In the cathedral porch
Jean stumbles to the library
Her mismatched clothes
Selected from chance finds
And what she stuffed into a rucksack
On escaping home
Aaron sweats in his black bin liner
String pulled tight
Around his wasting waist
Half asleep
Half aware
Half under a hedge
His sore feet wet
In coffee shops
Talk of weather percolates
Through the Americano chat
How miserable and on my day off
If only Don had a day off too
And Jean and Aaron
And all the people who a warm dry day
Was all they hoped for this cruel May
~
CLP 11/05/2023
Leaves
I hear
Trees trembling
Before I feel
A droplet
Cold on my brow
Before I see
Dark spots
Marking the path
Before I choose
To walk on
Under shivering oak leaves
~
CLP 10/05/2023
Inherited
my mother's eyes
my dad's demeanour
not land, nor castles
income from estates
the staff, titles
the homes, the jewels
not the taxpayers cash
interest on millions
property worth billions
no power to tweak laws
before they're set
not wealth passed on
from a rich woman
to her son
an accident of birth
no one chooses
to get born
the luck of the draw
to be fit and strong
isn't that enough
with my mother's eyes
my dad's demeanour
~
CLP 06/04/2023
Journey of Words 