you'd think it's Sunday
traffic absent, birdsong clear
Ingerland kick off
~
n.b. I was rudely interrupted by the heavy fall of silence. An international football game was about to start, so nearly everything else stopped.
CLP 21/11/2022
Liberté, Égalité, Humanité
you'd think it's Sunday
traffic absent, birdsong clear
Ingerland kick off
~
n.b. I was rudely interrupted by the heavy fall of silence. An international football game was about to start, so nearly everything else stopped.
CLP 21/11/2022
so silent this blue turns black
nothing moves on Earth
a meteor streak
a faint schwoosh far off
sprinkled stardust
dissolves into tapestry of night
~
CLP 31/05/2021
a fingernail caught
in momentary stillness
beauty of silence
~
CLP 15/04/2021
Talk flows naturally
Everything seems as it should.
What’s been left unsaid?
~
n.b. Is life too short to cover everything one needs to talk about?
~
CLP 17/10/2020
They will ask
When we are older
Where were you?
What did you do?
What was it like?
~
There will be some
Full of learning
Stories of neighbours
Of clapping and rainbows
Of nature; sunlight
~
There will be some
Who saw too much
Were party to this history
Brought low by loss and grief
Who choose not to speak
~
CLP 08/07/2020
Restlessness ceases
Traveller’s weary heart breathes
Grass soft underfoot
~
n.b. God bless her and all who sail in her.
CLP
Hysterical times
Switch right off, take hold of Time
Listen to the Earth
.
CLP 26/04/2020
Friday finally
Shuts up, lies down, rolls over
Into Saturday
.
CLP 07/02/2020