Journey of Words

Tag: Senryū

  • on time

    we scraped snow off lineskicked the ball through heavy flakesplayed as if still kids ~ n.b. Such fun to be able to run and slide about chasing a football for an hour, even when the air temperature is less than zero. CLP 15/12/2022 →

  • on ice

    I fell through, aged fivechest deep, my sister in tooburied memories ~ n.b. Sadness as old as winter itself, children falling through ice while playing, excited by the magic ice promises. I cannot imagine the inconsolable grief the parents must be experiencing. CLP 14/12/2022 →

  • on Oregon

    we wake to good newsdeath sentences commutedsunlight breaks through cloud ~ n.b. More killing cannot lead to less killing. Oregon Governor, Kate Brown, has used her executive power to turn all current death sentences in the state’s prisons to life sentences. “Justise is not advanced by taking a life.” she believes. Amen to that. CLP →

  • on Iran

    four thousand life yearsimprisonment for protestswoman, life, freedom ~ n.b. The tyranny under the theocracy tightens. 400 protestors x 10 years each for daring to question the validity of Iran’s legislature. Executions are also being carried out. CLP 13/12/2022 →

  • on Ukraine

    bombs dropped, rockets firedyes, you did! no, we didn’t!truth walking wounded ~ n.b. Day 292. Add truth to the list of missing. CLP 12/12/2022 →

  • on Iran

    how frightened they arehang for ‘an attack on god’shoot to mutilate ~ n.b. These angry men of the theocracy have no answers to the questions being asked of them, except their inhumane treatment of the protesters, which might qualify it as godly, possibly, as gods aren’t human. Every bullet fired into the bodies of women, →

  • on time

    you reminded meof a place we had once beenfeatureless echo ~ n.b. Forgetting is an essential survival skill. Thankfully we cannot call up actual pain, just the memory of having been in pain. CLP 07/12/2022 →

  • on time

    is this where we’d sit(where she sat, painted landscapes)watch for deer, buzzards? ~ n.b. Bignor Hill, West Sussex, toward the mouth of the Arun, (I imagine). Painting by Elsie Marian Henderson (1880-1967). CLP 07/12/2022 →

  • on Ukraine

    first frozen windscreensunlight now in monochromethank our lucky stars ~ n.b. Moscow’s robber barons must be carrying a lot of pain for them to seek to inflict such suffering on others. Here, in the UK, we just have to face up to winter’s heartless weather. CLP 06/12/2022 →

  • in time

    concrete, glass and steelput up lights, tie off with bowstill steel, glass, concrete ~ n.b. People raising glasses to Christmas on 2nd December, leaving just eleven months of the year festive free. This is in a country where a minority (46%) now identify themselves as Christian. I don’t see or hear this much propaganda about →