Journey of Words

Tag: Poetry

  • on light

    who’s there! friend or foe?beauty beyond horizonreflected glory ~ CLP 09/02/2023 →

  • on Ukraine

    and while people diedefending their homes and landwordsmiths question them ~ n.b. I have been writing about Ukraine since the Russian invasion started. One thing I hope that I haven’t done is tried to explain from the West, or anywhere but my own perspective. It is inexplicable, unfathomable, unless you question why one man in →

  • on colour

    stop, arrest, charge, gaolfact is, ‘Inglan is a bitch’fair’s not fair enough ~ n.b. The Crown Prosecution Service has investigated its files and found white English people are less likely to be prosecuted than any other ethnic group facing similar police charges, i.e. same crime, different treatment. The whole English legal system acts in joint →

  • on time

    grow straight, tall and truemore tricky than imaginedtrees flex with the wind ~ CLP 08/02/2023 →

  • on Ukraine

    witness destructionmeted out by Earth’s shakingyou men are feeble ~ n.b. The instantaneous chaos of an earthquake takes seconds to kill thousands, Russia determined to replicate Nature’s awesome strength in suffocating slow-motion. What does Moscow gain from the slaughter? CLP 06/02/2023 →

  • on time

    moonrise exposescrowded blocks, brick barriers lives without nature ~ n.b. Sun rises later now because of these ‘contemporary apartments’ that also diminish the scale of the Moon and night sky. CLP 06/02/2023 →

  • on time

    could be? already?curious, fearful, intrigued?buy me to find out ~ n.b. Classic headline. The art of headline writing is alive and well in Norfolk. Loving the ambiguity; suspicion of nuclear waste’s existence, or fear of plans to deposit nuclear waste? CLP 05/02/2023 →

  • on time

    interleaved momentsmusic, football, familybound by weekend ~ n.b. These two characters, in a duo called Squat Lobster, sing their own rather silly Christmas songs all year round, except at Christmas, when they’re busy being family men. CLP 04/02/2023 →

  • on Ukraine

    come gather round yousons of Russia enrich soilwho don’t understand? ~ n.b. It is reported in the NY Times that Russian military losses are in excess of 200,000, not counting the captured. That land must hold a lot of value to Moscow if it is happy to spread so much blood and bone. CLP 03/02/2023 →

  • on time

    better things to dothan play games with the weatherprepare for the worst ~ n.b. Blue sky, but clouds not quite as white and fluffy as to be entirely innocent. CLP 02/02/2023 →