Journey of Words

Tag: Poetry

  • On time

    hours moved here and thereman makes dark become lighttemporality ~ n.b. Daylight saving time. Do we still need it? CLP 31/10/2022 →

  • on place

    we know each otheryet context is everythinggreeting unanswered ~ n.b. Late October. A warm Saturday night, streets busy with Halloween revellers. People dressed to be unrecognisable. How would I have known who you are? CLP 30/10/2022 →

  • on time

    a moment enoughclues, questions, sufficientto go look for more ~ n.b. A queue, half a conversation. CLP 29/10/2022 →

  • on light

    largest of planetsspins past before night takes holdbetter things to do ~ CLP 27/10/2022 →

  • on Iran

    immoralitypolice shoot into protest crowdsWoman! Life! Freedom! ~ n.b. Forty days of mourning for Mahsa Amini has become a rolling wave of grief as other innocent school children (girls and boys alike) have been murdered by the authorities, with others who have committed the capital crime of calling out the repression of a brutal theocracy. →

  • on time

    some places won’t changemarginal adaptationanother autumn ~ n.b. The Harrow, Steep, Hampshire. CLP 26/10/2022 →

  • on time

    grandson stands, twists tongueattempts clicking of fingerssoftness of digits ~ CLP 26/10/2022 →

  • on time

    more shooting in schoolSt. Louis gathers more ghostssoulless at its heart ~ n.b. It was just four weeks ago I walked past Central Visual & Performing Arts High School on Arsenal Street. It was a beautiful, sunny morning. Pass any school in the USA and it sets one thinking about intruder prevention, safety drills, panic →

  • on time

    wait long as you likewater never runs up hillbest to go with flow ~ CLP 25/10/2022 →

  • on Ukraine

    narrow strip of earthturns into no man’s landtime to draw the line? a telephone ringsagain? so soon? let me seeawkward exchanges death calls at the doorits noose swings from naked treenuclear winter who has the power? ~ n.b. It has come to this. Another conversation, the second in three days. Things are hotting up. CLP →