• on the sea

    it’s always the sameevery incoming breakerdifferent from the last ~ CLP 31/07/2023

  • On Ukraine

    Moscow talks of talksso many broken bridgesyet to be repaired ~ n.b. Day 522 unfolding. CLP 30/07/2023

  • on July

    I need therapyOlympiakos visitFind myself inside ~ n.b. This is getting a bit crazy. Like an addict, I gained no pleasure from attending, but had to go, not having seen a team from Greece before. I bought my ticket about 10 minutes before kickoff. CLP 29/07/2023

  • on time

    it takes time, Babyfalling in is differentroses grow from buds ~ CLP 25/07/2023

  • on Ukraine

    rocking in the ringthunderous blows, staggering hitslack of knock-out punch ~ n.b. Slow, painful deaths. CLP 25/07/2023

  • on time

    there are only somany moments to enjoychoices, choices, choose ~ CLP 23/07/2023

  • on Ukraine

    it’s no sports eventpeople’s lives are in dangerfruit has to ripen ~ n.b. The Ukraine top security official, Oleksiy Danilov, has been trying to explain to news media, that the counter-offensive against Russia will take time to have a significant impact. He used a typically poetic metaphor about fruit. You can only admire the hope

  • It’s a goal!

    Holes in my socksEnd of season sale shortsA third choice shirtOf several years pastIt’s a bit of a mish-mashBut it’s only for funI’m still playing footballWhile I can still runThere’s no better gameI still pretend to be Andy ColeWhen I make some spaceAnd score one more goalIt might be my last everWho knows what fate

  • Still writing…

    Dear reader, Thank you for still reading. I am still writing… https://spidewriter.blogspot.com/?m=1 Poems, haiku and Senryū will still appear here, from time to time, but there is other writing going on elsewhere. CLP 11/07/2023

  • on Ukraine

    US cluster bombsfragmented moral high groundindiscriminate ~ n.b. What other disgusting inventions are being picked out of the warehouses of the industrial military complex in the name of freedom? CLP 08/07/2023