Journey of Words

Tag: Peace

  • On Ukraine

    disputatious headsfractionalise the nationtroops die in trenches – n.b. It is reported that the President and the nation’s top General are at odds about the effectiveness of Ukraine’s armed forces. This is not chess, there is an armed aggressor. Every day the adult children of Ukrainians and Russians are dying in mud,, in what is →

  • on time

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

  • on peace

    outside bombs, rocketssounds of our New Year partiesor relentless war ~ n.b. Gunpowder sales continue to boom. CLP 31/12/2023 →

  • on Peace

    “…people are united by a longing for peace. That is the truth.” Yes, it is. Thank you, Delia Smith. ~ n.b. Heard on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, (or should that be Dessert Island Discs?) on 29th December, 2023. CLP 29/12/2023 →

  • on Ukraine

    Here is another link, this time to an article in The Guardian about contemporary poetry writing in Ukraine. With so much going wrong elsewhere, it is easy to forget, Ukraine is still besieged, Moscow still presses on with its invasion plans. Meanwhile, in Moscow, a poet is gaoled for five years for reciting a poem →

  • on light

    Andaluciagentle whispers caught on breezekiss brushes the heart CLP 28/12/2023 →

  • 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 →

  • unbearable

    in measured toneswith reasonable languagethese two men adopt a stolid stanceexplain nothing will deflecteach from their stated purposeirrespective of distractionsthe cries of infants orphanedthe tears of grieving mothersthe pleas of widowsanger of widowersvengeful vows from sons and daughterswho will ensure peace will not cometo Palestine or Ukrainefor generations ~ n.b. Whether a daily press briefing →

  • on Ukraine

    “Someday this war will end”soldiers will become civviesflowers sprout from graves~ CLP 12/12/2023 →

  • on Ukraine

    Illia KyvaShot by a person unknown Lies in Moscow Park ~ n.b. While the winter grips the throats of soldiers, (who, may I remind you, are the sons of mothers), the SBU go hunting for those who have promoted this war against their own. CLP 05/12/2023 →