Journey of Words

Tag: Poetry

  • Ring Me

    I begged, looking at the mark on the third finger of my left hand where there’s still an indented mark that never tans quite so dark as the rest of me not since I took off that gold band threw it in a drawer three years ago, or was it four? ~ CLP 21/06/2021 →

  • On Sleep

    I lost count of sheep couldn’t quantify cattle quietly slipped off ~ CLP 20/06/2021 →

  • Dream #23

    unable to speak shouts stifled at source legs bound, arms held this is not what I came for how do I wake myself when so constrained by sleep? will it end like this? drowned in white light? in silence? ~ CLP 20/06/2021 →

  • Dream #22

    Which bed is this? I wake unsure no standard hotel shape to reassure my musty head is somewhere secure familiar start to a new day with an unfamiliar face who has just pulled close the door behind her I hold a memory of shapes and words recalled too late that was not her name she →

  • Dream #21

    heavy rain’s half-time shuffle on the roof mixes with the jazz ostinato beat of towering street lamps flicking by wheels slip over pools along the carriageway sheets of spray from trucks misting view red rear lights, pairs of dazzling white approach, recede dashboard indicators green there’s a song replaying on the radio today becomes yesterday →

  • Love #1

    I miss you, Grandpa opened the dusty window turned the rusty key ~ CLP 16/06/2021 →

  • Café Writers’ Society

    I am very grateful to the lovely people at the Norwich based, Café Writers who have selected ‘Time #1’ as Poem of the Month for June 2021. Time #1 can be found here on this blog too, the post having been published on 13th June 2021. The society has substantially extended its boundaries thanks to →

  • Dream #20

    you know, this thing that didn’t happen anywhere but my head, seemed real I remember everything about it conversation, colours, the amazing food all the personal touches every sensation, but smell smell? nothing. I thought nothing of it until I was asked to leave as I said, it seemed real but without a scent of →

  • Time #2

    robin, sparrow, pigeon motorway, next door’s children blue sky, white walls, dawn bright silver birch shine, heat of sheet sourness of sweat, weight of limb heavy head, weary heart click of clock, click of clock click of clock, laughing gull ~ CLP 16/06/2021 →

  • Dream #19

    flying with brothers and sisters screams of joy uncontrollable giggles screaming with brothers and sisters pained by absence collapsed in holes of grief uncontrollable brothers and sisters scoured by loss wandering like orphaned kittens absence of brothers and sisters ~ CLP 15/06/2021 →