Journey of Words

Tag: Poetry

  • on time

    neat as it may befunctional as it remainsquaint anomaly ~ n.b. A lift bridge and its elegant mechanism that allows canal traffic to progress through Huddersfield. Built and proudly marked ‘1865’, could this fancy machinery be a metaphor for monarchy? CLP 04/06/2022 →

  • on time

    imaginationmoney, muscle, spades, shovelspassing fantasy ~ n.b. The network of canals linking England’s industrial towns are a testament to human endeavour. The time, capital and effort required to engineer them is staggering to contemplate. The experience of the navigators in constructing these soon redundant waterways, was more efficiently deployed in building the infinitely more complex →

  • on time

    sand granules fallingsqueeze through the narrow glass neckis there any point? ~ CLP 02/06/2022 →

  • on time

    with never enoughwe have decisions to makechoose to love; choose us ~ n.b. Are we not social creatures? If so, why are charlatans getting rich promoting the ‘I, me, my, mine’ agenda? Time is all we have, love is all we need. CLP 02/06/2022 →

  • on Ukraine xxv

    escaping the Nazispeople of Russia scorched earthnow their soldiers harry Ukraineas William The Bastard did in the Northso Putin does to the southhistory teaches us nothingit is but a mirror ~ n.b. What is the point of this destruction and slaughter? Where is the glory? What kind of peace does this lead to? CLP 31/05/2022 →

  • on time

    how long is there left?unknowable until pastthen all will make sense ~ n.b. This mighty tree was not left to fall. See the heart drawn across the split? Love binding it together, or representing a break? Who knows? This is art. CLP 30/05/2022 →

  • 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

    Applause for light showAntithesis of punk rockWere they really there? n.b. Was I really there? Life’s a voyage. CLP 29/05/2022 →

  • on silence

    so, men with uniformsbadges and guns waitedfor other menwith uniforms, badges and gunsto come to the rescue? do you know the children’s rhyme of the old woman who swallowed a fly then swallowed a spider, a bird and a cat a dog and a goat, a cow and a horse after that? ~ CLP 28/05/2022 →

  • on education

    children of Texaslearn drills to escape shooterslaw-makers profit Mauripol childrenlearn Russian curriculumteaching at gunpoint ~ n.b. In the USA the elephant in the classroom carries a gun because of a constitutional change way back in 1791. Surely it is time for a review of that blood-stained document? https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/05/gun-rights-groups-set-new-lobbying-spending-record-in-2021/ In Ukraine the elephants are cancelling school →