Journey of Words

Tag: Senryū

  • on Ukraine

    sunrise dulls night’s starsunder lunar indifferenceresistance is allthree years have spunwith nothing to celebrateexcept life itselfthis fight not overembattled Kyiv’s trams will runthere is still a pulsehospitals and schoolsbakeries and street marketsprecious exchangesmoney greases handsmerchants of war grow fatterUkraine their foir grasyellow and blue bandswheat sent by sea feeds the worldtherein grains of truthone man →

  • in time

    thought I was runninglate for work, but I wasn’tlucky lorry stopped…~ n.b. …driver error. I sensed he hadn’t seen me. Close one. CLP 21/02/2025 →

  • on Ukraine

    A knock on the doorYour son will never returnYou laboured in vain~ n.b. One thousand Russian mothers a day are being told that the birth pains they endured are nothing to the unending pain of loss they will suffer from today. What hollow gains Moscow is making. CLP 18/02/2025 →

  • on assimilation

    Words spoken and heardCame out distinctly NorfolkThis stops, right now!~ n.b. I am not from here. Life brought me here. I do not want to lose my sense of identity. CLP 15/02/2025 →

  • on peace

    don’t say you’re surprisedhow many will be murderedcelebrating peace~ CLP 16/01/2025 →

  • on peace

    ceasefire brings weepingcould this be the end of it?four days to stay safe~ n.b. Let us pray that everyone can stay out of the line of fire until 19th January. As the ceasefire is agreed, why not stop the shooting and bombing immediately? CLP 15/01/2025 →

  • on time

    how our shared hours fleeminutes drag in your absencetomorrow distant~n.b. ‘See you tomorrow!’ said in cheery prospect, becomes a tortuous crawl to sunrise. CLP 05/01/2025 →

  • on the calendar

    TodayThe FirstAnother clean sheetBut if not nowNot soonIt will be another yearGone ~ n.b. Life’s cycle becomes increasingly apparent. CLP 01/01/2025 →

  • on time

    It’s ridiculousAll the ticking and tockingWe live as if cogs~ CLP 25/12/2024 →

  • 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 →