Journey of Words

Tag: Poetry

  • on water

    I’ve walked out this fareach wave lifts me off my feetdive in or retreat? ~ CLP 17/10/201 →

  • October

    fungi in heart of oakworking to bring giant downhumbling royalty ~ n.b. We are all mortal. CLP 16/10/201 →

  • morning

    light eases across bedpulls back the winter duvetsolitude exposed ~ CLP 16/10/2021 →

  • on night

    its cloak lays heavyawake with longing for youface of clock mocks me ~ CLP 16/10/2021 →

  • daylight robbery

    this is oursthe canvas that fills with cumuliwhere delicate cirrus decorates our moonwhere Sun drags its heat from dawn to duskthe venue of Venus, the field for Marswhere Saturn plays perpetual hula hoopdance floor of Jupiter and its spinning jewelsbackdrop for all our starsthis is our space you build inconcreting our viewdamping our daysdarkening our →

  • on stage

    under spotlight’s glareall can see imperfectionsof others’ labours ~ CLP 14/10/2021 →

  • on autumn

    steamed up windscreen attracts a playful fingerthe smiley ghosts in and out of viewthrough October’s low sunsetsand at each evening condensationI know it was youI recognise that smile ~ CLP 13/10/2021 →

  • Words

    Egg Box, the publishing offshoot at University of East Anglia have just launched this anthology. There are some stunning poems in this from an amazing cohort of students. As one of the people on the course I have had some of my original poems included too, (poems not published on line).Thank you to all my →

  • skirting

    the wave breakscoughs up kelpsplashes shingle up the beachrolls stones overbrushes out sandcatches air in pocketsmarks the tideline in thick foamy spumeleaves with a hissof bursting bubblesslips back into itselfgathers in its pleatsto unfurl them againbackfilling our footprintsproving nothingwaits for us ~ CLP 11/10/2021 →

  • on the beach

    at first sight oldolder than you and memuch olderWalking hand in handas we might from time to timein moments unconnected by conversation they stopped momentarilyso she could stoop to pick up a pebbleor a shell, or a flint, or to investigatea wave-shined glint of somethingthat caught her imaginationas he waited to be shown her find →