Journey of Words

Tag: Poetry

  • On Endings

    my words fail (again) wish your kiss had sealed these lips leaving me struck dumb ~ CLP 03/07/2021 →

  • On the other side

    over many bridges is grass that’s always greener who would not go there? ~ CLP 02/07/2021 →

  • On the Edge

    solid, liquid, gas permanence ethereal shifting between states ~ CLP 01/07/2021 →

  • Under the Sun

    chittering swallows whirring crickets, silent moths seeking pastures old ~ CLP 30/06/2021 →

  • Listen

    This heart beat repeats unchanging, steady, rhythm constant companion ~ CLP 30/06/2021 →

  • On Rain

    thick dark soup of sky ladles out downpour dollops brook a bubbling broth ~ CLP 28/06/2021 →

  • Sheep

    when we appear at the gate their bleating starts calling of ewes to lambs lambs to ewes locating each other in panicked calls so anxious are they at our arrival ~ a pair of sturdy lambs burrow under a ewe knocking the flighty beast off-balance pull hard at her teats for comfort lambs who already →

  • Dream #25

    Too tired to dream I slept straight through rose to a world gone wrong as if the chaos usually found inside my head had really happened outside instead ~ CLP 26/06/2021 →

  • Late June

    early evening rain falling heavy on hot soil, tarmac, stone evaporates fast, forms humid stock, soured by sweat bubbles up in steaming cumuli that boil over drive down dust, pollen and temperature so that tonight we might sleep unless it doesn’t and the thick soup simply simmers as we pull covers off, ache for breathe, →

  • Dream #24

    you must know this one where you reach out as far as you can then not reaching what you stretched for start to fall towards a ground so distant you cannot see it you cannot fly resistance is useless you tumble through parting air and you rediscover fear as the ground approaches so fast, so →