Journey of Words

Tag: Poetry

  • on time

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

  • on time

    late to the partynobody knows who you areyou’re welcome to stay ~ CLP 11/06/2022 →

  • on time

    enemy or friendpatience versus inertiano sudden movements ~ CLP 11/06/2022 →

  • on paper

    WANTED: space to liveto whom does this all belong?who is it decides? ~ n.b. Land and property is the debate we need to have. CLP 10/06/2022 →

  • on light

    half-moon after rainfalls light on darkened pavementsecho of footsteps ~ CLP 08/06/2022 →

  • on Ukraine xxvi

    there is only so long left of this public examination all is organised to this end our youth bent double drowning in academic gas interpreting Dulce et Decorum est while the RAF shake the building practising manoeuvres, virtue signalling overhead ~ CLP 08/06/2022 →

  • June

    in Englandexam halls fullbiros scribblinghumidity and heatsomeone decreed the tie must be wornthey will hear nothing of the larkcatch not the cuckoo callingcannot simmer in the slow burn to Solsticethe ticking clockninety minutes of mathematicsa pair of blackbirds flush out the jayheron stalking by the weirdeep dwellers snapping at surface midgesreeds revelling with rainbow trouttwo →

  • on land

    walk me through fieldsknee deep grasses, wild flowerswe’ll mow them by hand ~ CLP 06/06/2022 →

  • on sound

    I couldn’t hear youthere was too much background noisespouting from my mouth ~ n.b. “Say something once, why say it again?” sang David Byrne with Talking Heads. A young couple were arguing on the train yesterday, not loudly, nor demonstratively. “I don’t want an argument.” he said. “You’re not listening to me.” She said. He →

  • on light

    everywhere buildinglayers of steel, concrete, glasstowers become walls n.b. This is Leeds, but could be anywhere that development is taking place in England; dulling the landscape, blocking the light. Higher and higher, filling in the sky. CLP 04/06/2022 →