Journey of Words

Tag: Mortality

  • on time

    something will happenspeeds your sense of urgencyso few tomorrows ~ CLP 16/06/2022 →

  • on Ukraine

    daily more losttwo hundred dead, eight hundred maimedmedia lose interest ~ CLP 14/06/2022 →

  • on time

    family, free, ownquality, personal, goodhalf, full, down, the last ~ CLP 11/05/2022 →

  • on time

    when did this begin?working inside for decadesto pull you apart ~ n.b. Our bodies have history that in the retelling include an ending. CLP 30/05/2022 →

  • on light

    a veil is drawn herenew day rises in Texaslone star brings no warmth ~ n.b. Private profit, public loss. Free market extremism, private grief. CLP 26/05/2022 →

  • on tenderness

    this lives somewhere within and between usexists not without, cannot survive aloneforms around us, surely not beyond usfear not the performance, fear not the actdoes time and place and circumstance persistto permit retrieval of such gentleness? ~ CLP 24/05/2022 →

  • on time

    He had drunk a few’DAD’ propped up by pub wallsign of a good wake ~ n.b. I was wryly amused to see the floral tribute leaning on the wall, (by the bin). What does one do with the flowers afterwards? Rest in peace ‘DAD’ wherever that might be. CLP 07/05/2022 →

  • Collateral Damage

    what would we do if he dropped bombs here ? as we saw it fall we’d know it’s all over for us ! would we make up where we could offer necessary apologies long overdue balance our consciences play music say one final I love you ? ~ n.b. NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Twenty-eight prompt; Concrete →

  • on time

    night landingtouched down nine thousand feet upwoken to the rainy seasoncloud cover and the infra-red burnCatholic guilt faced by Columbian giltalters the skin, the soulthe shaman’s spirited local brewfires imaginationbrings narcotic clarity to dreamingof being here, nowthe journey begins ~ n.b. Picture courtesy of NOP, who is on his travels. CLP 16/03/2022 →

  • on time

    remind me how you knowyour truth is the holy onea poet wrote it? ~ CLP 07/03/2022 →