Journey of Words

Tag: Poetry

  • on time

    we have had warningso how long have we got nowstarting yesterday ~ n.b. This joke isn’t funny anymore…the warm weather, I mean. CLP 22/07/2022 →

  • on time

    all these museumsgreat to know others had livesso, what about us? ~ CLP 21/07/2022 →

  • on Ukraine

    waiting at bus-stopwe’ve all been there, filling timequietly musing ~ n.b. A thirteen year old boy was killed in a missile strike while waiting for a bus. His father came to hold his pulseless hand. Moscow states peace talks “make no sense.” (And this does?) CLP 20/07/2022 →

  • on time

    I used to play toowhen panelled footballs had lacesgoal nets luxury ~ n.b. Today I made this clay model of a football I was given one Christmas. It was orange, as this will be painted, when dry. Something for my grandson? CLP 20/7/2022 →

  • on time

    left on open grasslaid without ceremonybetter things to do? ~ n.b. To the human eye these looked white, to the camera this beautiful blue. CLP 18/07/2022 →

  • on time

    traffic accidentengine off, birdsong, fresh airgood to be alive ~ CLP 18/07/2022 →

  • on the wing

    someone is happyheat from south draws up insectssqueal of swifts sweep roofs ~ n.b. What joy in the tearaway swooping of young swifts playing tag in between the chimney pots! CLP 16/07/2022 →

  • on Ukraine

    consider profitsmanufacturers’ heaveneconomic boom ~ n.b. Does the UK government truly want to support the Ukrainian people, or does it see ‘leading the West’ as an instant way to boost the post-covid, post-Brexit economy? The promised £1 billion of support goes not to Kyiv, but to arms factories in UK. Ukraine gets the weapons, fights →

  • on time

    i so drunk when askedwaking thinking was that dreamwe need to dial back ~ n.b. Overheard, somewhere in town. CLP 14/07/2022 →

  • on time

    what glue holds us allwe move perpetuallywill we rest in space ~ CLP 14/07/2022 →