Journey of Words

Tag: Poetry

  • on sleep

    take it when you canor it will take you by stealth‘sneak preview of death’*~ n.b. Beware micro- sleep. It may mean you miss a slice of a TV show, or worse than that, a bend on the road. Sleep gets us all in the end. *From Dr. John Cooper Clarke – Beasley Street CLP 19/08/2024 →

  • on Saturday

    special place to bein sunny southern weatherwith friends and family~ n.b. Fratton Park looking as good as it ever has. CLP 17/08/2024 →

  • on time

    Straw bales litter fieldsJackdaws stalk exposed stubbleMist rises from soil~ CLP. 15/08/2024 →

  • on light

    dappled, thick, heavyshadows lengthen as Earth turnstension of storm clouds~ CLP 13/08/2024 →

  • on heat

    In the treesShaded by leavesThe cool cloak of birchA havenGentle tremorsBend of boughAs a pigeon lifts offStill up for itWhateverThe weather~ CLP 12/08/2024 →

  • on gratitude

    we were here for youyou played your hearts out for usour enduring love~ n.b. I could go on…Pompey! Pompey! Ra! Ra! Ra! CLP 11/08/2024 →

  • on waking

    Gently ease sleep offWith whispered confidencesChirping of sparrows~ CLP 10/08/2024 →

  • on dawn

    cross the Friendship bridgewitness to the rising Sunlight is still with us~ CLP 10/08/2024 →

  • on Ukraine

    Unless a riverMountains, deserts, lakes or seaDivides usThere are no bordersThey are malleableLines on mapsPencilled inLike warWhere no rules exist ~ CLP 09/08/2024 →

  • On Nagasaki

    Do not forget thisthriving city foreverscarred in but a flash~n.b. And on the Third Day after Hiroshima, someone thought Nagasaki should be razed to the ground too. Who? Why? Really? Were two A-bombs really necessary?In history, the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on 9th August 1945, is barely mentioned, yet it suffered the full horror of →