Journey of Words

Tag: Poetry

  • Ship

    shape even keel storm warning heavy              swell                                                                                     rough sea                                                                       side                              swipe rudder less a d                      i           f                                                  r                          t cargo shift off kilter      ballast dangerous list jettison MAYDAY MAYDAY abandon ship sink flare up life boat crew manifest bill of laden salvage                         attempt salvage attempt insurance policy claims list ~ NaPoWriMo 2021 Day Nine prompt: →

  • Sun Dial

    what time was it when Sun projected pine shadows on warm warehouse bricks ~ CLP 07/04/2021 →

  • Ein Deutscher Soldat

    I was frightened, of course, when we took to the air, I’d never flown over the German Ocean before, but I was reminded as I looked across to my right of safety in numbers in this bomber flight. . The Sun was still licking the line of the Norfolk shore as we wheeled inland toward →

  • Not Venice (Yet)

    Let us not pretend virus is only problem time to regrow fins ~ CLP 07/04/2021 →

  • Raid (i)

    night, asleep after valentines messaged “night” he wakes; strange silence no traffic, just the night bird drapes back-lit by blues ~ n.b. NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 7 prompt syallable count forms (i) Shadorma 3/5/3/5/7/5. See below Raid (ii) for an example of (ii) Fibonacci 1/1/2/3/5/8. ~ CLP 07/04/2021 →

  • On The Surface

    . Down by the quayside where fishermen know to sit young seal making hay ~ n.b. I had heard of this young pup’s arrival a week ago and today I saw it surface a few times. Despite the snow in the wind, a woman had taken her coat off to sit on it on the →

  • On the Roof

    in shorts and t-shirts all but seven days ago swallows presaged snow ~ CLP 07/04/2021 →

  • Nice Work Woody & Johnny

    ~ Great to have you back writing in tandem! Congratulations on being selected for the NaPoWriMo poem / poets of Day 5, 2021. hallucinated ambush Press on and don’t spare the horses! ~ CLP 06/04/2021 →

  • Can I come in? It’s not safe out there

    …it never has been, I thought I read the news, have seen the stats hear the doppler rise and fall of sirens bouncing off the city walls insistent on untrammelled passage scrambling wits of locked in drivers blocked in lanes unsure quite where the blue lights approach from or head toward, what they are and →

  • On Water

    Inundation flows finds a level then settles serene water fowl ~ n.b. Today a bitter northerly brought snow to the air and pushed the tide higher, so that the rivers spilled into low pasture, ducks, geese and swans followed. ~ CLP 05/04/2021 →