Journey of Words

Tag: Poetry

  • 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 →

  • Sickle

    right in the handperfectly balancedas if part of my armslicing the airslicing my doubtsopening my skinbare to my heartopening me upletting light pour in ~ n.b. Yes, I believe. CLP 10/10/2021 →

  • no Moon

    this is when I feel it mostthe air thick with mistdesiccated leavesscratching at paving slabsfine webs strung between damp bladescovering verges except where disturbedby fungi pushing through to pour out spores by the milliontonight there is no lunar distraction just railway siding lights, street lights, traffic lights, headlights, crossing lightsred lights topping off a cranea →

  • on Platform 2

    This is Woking…if you see something that doesn’t look rightspeak to a member of staff or contact British Transport Policetext 61016see it say it sortedthis is your conductorwelcome aboard this South-West Trains service to London Waterlooyou can find me towards the middleof this ten coach trainthe next stop will be London Waterlooestimated time of arrival →

  • on the island

    caught against a wallcolour diluted by headlightsfox trotting through town ~ n.b. Foxes in Portsmouth scavenge by night, gulls by day. CLP 06/10/2021 →

  • on the sea

    ocean green tides shiftstones, open cliffs, crack concretewe’ll return to it ~ CLP 05/10/2021 →

  • on London

    taxing the low paidwhile laundering millionstennis with BoJo ~ n.b. It’s wrong. London’s financial machinery is central to money laundering crime world-wide. See the Pandora Papers for more. CLP 05/10/2021 →