Journey of Words

Tag: Poems

  • TOMORROW’S NEWS TODAY

    will be much like yesterday’s not so different from that to be disseminated the day after tomorrow . World’s Biggest Rabbit still stolen very old Greek man still awaits burial . Pyroclastic clouds over St Vincent as La Soufrière fumes . latest football results different combinations same names reconfigured numbers keep population happy with games →

  • time-stitch

    nine arrowed together by lovers in unusual hours no matter when at coffee, lunch, tea, day, night slipping through urgent fingers grasping at sand they have to make up for these unaccounted moments they could not let pass without finding out knowing full well each tide runs after catching breath in liquid seconds on the →

  • On Water ii

    a simple pleasure just being ferried abroad afloat beside you ~ CLP 11//04/2021 →

  • On Happiness

    Do not pursue me I will find you soon enough Simply live your life ~ CLP 11/04/2021 →

  • On Water

    it is a thin skin that holds up Earth’s atmosphere stops air falling in ~ n.b. i.e. the “meniscus”. CLP 10/04/2021 →

  • Something in these tears

    your cheeks sting from the poison  you’ve been holding in  the stories you tell yourself are like sports medals pushed to the drawer back corroding in a tin . memories can distort the past can corrupt today remember memory is malleable not a library gathering dust you are not a man of steel tears won’t →

  • On Light

    impressive structure floodlights stand proud of stadium still waiting on green ~ n.b. Television can never replace the real deal. Plan to be there or expect to be square (eyed)…whenever being there, or anywhere is allowed. ~ CLP 09/04/2021 →

  • Ship

    shape even keel storm warning heavy              swell                                                                                     rough sea                                                                       side                              swipe rudder less a d                      i           f                                                  r                          t cargo shift off kilter      ballast dangerous list jettison MAYDAY MAYDAY abandon ship sink flare up life boat crew manifest bill of laden salvage                         attempt salvage attempt insurance policy claims list ~ NaPoWriMo 2021 Day Nine prompt: →

  • Ein Deutscher Soldat

    I was frightened, of course, when we took to the air, I’d never flown over the German Ocean before, but I was reminded as I looked across to my right of safety in numbers in this bomber flight. . The Sun was still licking the line of the Norfolk shore as we wheeled inland toward →

  • Not Venice (Yet)

    Let us not pretend virus is only problem time to regrow fins ~ CLP 07/04/2021 →