
horizon betrays
merciless advance of night
colour drains from sky
~
CLP 18/03/2022
Liberté, Égalité, Humanité
horizon betrays
merciless advance of night
colour drains from sky
~
CLP 18/03/2022
crystalline sky meets
golden tears wept by willows
life-belt's hollow ring
~
CLP 16/12/2021
this is ours
the canvas that fills with cumuli
where delicate cirrus decorates our moon
where Sun drags its heat from dawn to dusk
the venue of Venus, the field for Mars
where Saturn plays perpetual hula hoop
dance floor of Jupiter and its spinning jewels
backdrop for all our stars
this is our space you build in
concreting our view
damping our days
darkening our nights
boxing the light
constricting our breath
into narrow alleyways
you, who have enclosed our commons
now prepare to steal our sky
~
n.b. Time to draw a line to protect our light. Walls are being built on river banks and coasts for the few who are buying up our common views, breathing space and sense of space.
Norwich is being slowly smothered by these concrete and glass blocks. The Wensum is being enclosed.
Watching the building foundations being sunk is fascinating until you realise how deep the piles go and then the horror takes over; the sky is being taken from us.
~
CLP 15/10/2021
solid, liquid, gas
permanence ethereal
shifting between states
~
CLP 01/07/2021
white finger stretching south
beyond the headland
scratching open the sky
I rigidly follow the pilot
curled tight in a too small seat
the aircraft casting a fleeting mark
a dark crucifix on the rising sea
a pulse passing through the Channel
heaven howling echoes
in the chambers of my heart
I know not where I am going
nor why I am gone
~
CLP 12/06/2021
the Moon lies
in some galactic gutter
off his face on space junk
leaving all the lights on
so many colours, constellations confused
by brilliance of the luminous clutter
and you here, warm, safe, sound asleep
to the universal song and dance
of the stars going loopy
given their chance
~
CLP 09/06/2021
displacement of sorts
along coventry canal
coconut in sky
~
CLP 12/05/2021
soil crumbled to dust
decorous clouds braid sunset
prayers for rain dissolve
~
CLP 29/04/2021
green brine of Pompey
no shallow mirror of sky
depth of character
~
CLP 24/04/2021
When its this cold the sky burns
shades the late afternoon pink
sends clear warning to shepherds
~
CLP 10/02/2021