Liberté, Égalité, Humanité
concrete, glass and steel
put up lights, tie off with bow
still 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 any other belief system, other than Free Market ideology, obviously.
CLP 04/12/2022
Friday evening rush
eyes seek out welcome embrace
nothing else matters
~
CLP 03/12/2022
don't know about you
I have some work tomorrow
moon slides into bed
~
CLP 02/12/2022
stand up, cut the knot
nothing is worth so much hurt
walk on, start again
~
n.b. Life’s too short to wait for everyone to move on.
CLP 02/12/2022
callers would call by
she wanted no ties
a younger man would love her
then think she was his
you can call by, she'd say
whenever you want
but I only have callers
no one owns me
then she met him
with his travelling guitar
his once fair long hair
had long since gone grey
the twinkle he carried
in his guitar case
attracted young women
no strings attached
the two of them met
she said something clicked
she, a bar woman
he, guitar man
callers went packing
young women sent back
these two had four years
before slowly he died
four years of true loving
was what they had
the love of her life
she was grateful for that
~
n.b. Everyone has a story. I heard this one recently. Deeply moved by it, I was.
CLP 01/12/2022
She knows what she wants
She's learning how to get it
It's not his job to tell her
Not his job to show her
If he does, what will he learn?
What will he lose?
~
CLP 30/11/2022
swimming in rivers
heart shakes, shock of cold water
alive, alive, oh!
~
n.b. For The Broads of the Broads, wild swimmers.
CLP 30/11/2022
you, obviously
in such a rush to undress
I found a button
~
CLP 30/11/2022
BLM, Ukraine
women of Iran, China
...refuse to be slaves
~
n.b. The national anthem of The People’s Republic of China contains the line;
“Rise up those who refuse to be slaves”
Being brought up in England, where the national anthem, unusually, is about a person, not the nation, I have not had much time for national anthems, but the anthem of the PRC, as reported in The Guardian newspaper, has a line that I would happily sing.
It appears that the people of China have taken the words to heart. After nearly THREE YEARS of the Zero Covid policy some have had enough.
“…you may fool people for a time, you can fool part of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.”
Abraham Lincoln said that.
Enough is enough.
CLP 28/11/2022
then it's yesterday
chronology fractured clips
sense of order smeared
~
CLP 27/11/2022
Voyage des Mots 