Journey of Words

Tag: Poetry

  • on light

    it’s nearly midnightthere is too much of it nowthey sing all night long ~ n.b. Not that I’m objecting to birdsong. CLP 14/05/2022 →

  • on time

    Don’t count your chickensthey won’t be bothered at allthey’re not counting you ~ CLP 13/05/2022 →

  • on time

    I can give no moreattention economyconsumed everything ~ CLP 13/05/2022 →

  • on time

    in twenty-four hourstoday will be yesterdaythere is only now ~ CLP 12/05/2022 →

  • Balcony Scene

    i)Trust me, this isn’t my doingYou can choose any friendBut family? That’s the bitter endii)I could be anything you wantSay the word, we’ll elopeRun from convention’s rope iii)I come to you cap in handprofess my love for you on bended kneedon’t worry about disputative familiesiv)Yes, he’s my fatherI, his loving sonBut he couldn’t stop us →

  • on time

    mid-May afternoonleaves dancing on the ceilingagitating breeze ~ CLP 10/05/2022 →

  • on time

    through the arch windowheart of pepper-pot windpumpgreen power returns ~ n.b. Just a few miles from this C19th windpump, built to keep the marshes accessible for farming by pumping floodwaters back into the tidal reaches of the Yare, there are now the wind turbines generating the power to fuel the electric pumps that do the →

  • on time

    reed beds swirl in breezeroots washed by tidal shiftsreturning swallows ~ CLP 09/05/2022 →

  • on Ukraine xxiv

    children of Bilohorivkataught to shelter under deskswent to school as children doregistered as children musteach morning and for every classwere among those registered again todayin the rubble, broken glass and dust ~ n.b. Sixty people sheltering in a school in the neighbourhood of Luhansk were killed on 7th May. Today, 8th May is Freedom Day →

  • on time

    crash out, power downjust let the clock tick overbounce back tomorrow ~ CLP 07/05/2022 →