Journey of Words

Tag: Poetry

  • on and on

    take a moment hereas you do, the Earth spins onstopping for no one~n.b. Is awareness of this reality, reassuring or concerning? How do you eat your humble pie? CLP 22/12/2024 →

  • on water

    water smells of chlorinesplashed some in my eyethought I was going blind~n.b. Now it’s only safe to drink ale in England. Thank goodness for no-alcohol drinks CLP 21/12/2024 →

  • on place

    Chicken or the eggKeep moving, searching; for what?Stop, breathe, look, listenIt is all about~n.b. Street art adjacent to a bus stop, Norwich, East Anglia CLP 18/12/2024 →

  • on stars

    what we see was thennow is something differentI’m happy to wait~ CLP 17/12/2024 →

  • on Ukraine

    without electricsmedieval state of siegewinter approaches~n.b. Nature’s wintry grip comes for society’s young and old, the sick and weak. Moscow’s cruel strategy of attacking the power infrastructure of Ukraine continues. CLP 13/12/2024 →

  • on song

    Melodies from childhood remainLyrics less secureBut the mystical imagesof stable, cradle, starare lain in rubblecrushed by aircraft, rockets, shellsfrom the Unholy LandAnd the brass band playedMerry Xmas (War is Over)“…if you want it” I recallwhat will the wise men bring this timewhen the only sensible gift might be myrrh?~ CLP 12/12/2024 →

  • on time

    the first ambulance was called this afternoonit was haphazardly parkedacross three Residents Only parking baysno blue light, no alarmengine ticking as it cooledthe paramedics attending someonesomewhere in this new blockbuilt in this ‘village’built for ‘Retirement Living’built for passing throughthere is no shop, no barjust solar powered bungalowssimilarly attiredsmaller than to which they were familiarthe different →

  • on moving

    We have cleaned and tidiedTurned to considerThat which we carried hereTo unearth pictures, letters, cardsFrom life pastImagined essentially forgottenNow as vivid as the dawnCuts thought healedEach another of the thousandBleed anewWashed out againWith tears~ CLP 11/12/2024 →

  • on dreams

    bike theftall cards lostwith walletreassurance of phonestill in pocketwithout batterycharge ~ n.b. There’s been some crazy stuff going on in dreamland these last few days. None of it makes much sense, so very good to have a grounding day yesterday. CLP 03/06/2024 →

  • on Ukraine

    We cannot spend dozens of,thousands of, our people so that they perishfor the sake of Crimea coming back, we understandthat Crimea can be brought back diplomatically*If this is the truthwhy not follow the logicto a conclusion?in translation”spend…thousands of our people” sounds too expensivesounds as if the costsare prohibitively highthese lives that you spend ~n.b. VZ, →