Journey of Words

Tag: Poetry

  • on colour

    everything is greywe negotiate its shadesnothing black or white ~ CLP 30/12/2021 →

  • on time

    a pang or a paina tired ache or under strainstill my beating heart ~ n.b. Life in this old dog yet? CLP 29/12/2021 →

  • on time

    final whistle blownstadium quickly emptiedmemories diverge ~ n.b. Twenty thousand people, twenty thousand stories. ~ CLP 27/12/2021 →

  • on time

    hours spent at a deskbecause the balance betweenpay and life is wrong ~ CLP 25/12/2021 →

  • on space

    as I die will I rememberwhen we were in our teenswalking you home, my bicycle to handunder a sky so deepthe enormity of creation emphasisedthe insignificance of us? ~ CLP 25/12/2021 →

  • on time

    quickly faster nowhurry up mustn’t be latethis is all I have ~ CLP 25/12/2021 →

  • magicians

    startling trilling songa pair of wrens exchanging rapidly delivered melodiesthe first on buddleja behind the old brick wallfilling the levelled yard with songopposite the old wharf-side warehousesits opposite sat bowing the tip of the lone fircalling up the Sun from behind the woodclumped along the ridgewhere tonight the calls of owls will conjure up the →

  • on birdsong

    frost feathers windscreenssharp lunarian lightblackbird’s confusion ~ n.b. City living can be exhausting, not least when an excess of light blurs night with day. Birdsong can be heard at all hours, under a clear sky when a full moon rises. ~ CLP 22/12/2021 →

  • on darkness

    this is the limitsolar orbit continueswe move toward light ~ n.b. Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Can you feel it! Something to celebrate brothers and sisters. n.b. This deal does not apply to dwellers in the southern hemisphere. ~ CLP 21/12/2021 →

  • on water

    Novi Sad Friendship Bridgecormorant breaks surfaceconcentric patterns ~ CLP 20/12/2021 →