Journey of Words

Tag: Travel

  • on time

    so many placesI would love to share with youhave we enough hours? ~ CLP 23/01/2022 →

  • on time

    Friday, what the Fbreak open the bub-ber-leybirthday train ride ~ n.b. Not mine. Happy Birthday, mush. “Twenty past Ten; get the Scooby Snacks owat!” n.n.b. “Owat” translates to ‘out’ further south in England. CLP →

  • on white lights

    intermittent wipersbroken linesmarking where to cutthrough naked treesclawing at the sheetof cloudsbright red trianglesblack on whitewarning dartssharp bendswhite on blackapproaching one-eyed carwobbles past close enoughto make me winceand I hear you”Slow down.Watch out for the deer.”And this is what happens;you become part of my worldas I drive toward yours ~ CLP 10/01/2022 →

  • on memory

    how does it happen?looking at youin your old photosI elsewhere in my ownyet here we sitas happy asif we’d never been apart ~ CLP 09/12/2021 →

  • on time

    we would jump on boardbe in Paris in three hoursjust catch memories ~ n.b. Time was when the passing Eurostar was a symbol of freedom, opportunity and hope. Now it is simply a relic of days when Europe was a place we shared with our Continental cousins, a symbol of loss. CLP 30/1/2021 →

  • on Reception

    copier repairman career change to motelno two days the same ~ n.b. Stopped for a very late night keep-myself-awake-on-the-drive-home cup of tea at a motel in The Fens, heard a life story from boy soldier to village brass band. Classic! Nice one Dale. →

  • on the street

    walk on gold pavingcountless, not unlimitedtransient riches ~ CLP 21/11/2021 →

  • on light

    we, who came from starsare sure that we will returnto from whence we came ~ CLP 10/11/2021 →

  • Oyster

    A hotel in a small town at the foot of the Jura mountains, a small town just stretching over the frontier, a frontier that drew a line between domesticity at home and adventure abroad. With Christmas over and the sparkling street lighting gathered in for the foreseeable future, the worst of the weather arrived. Snow →

  • Malta

    The wedding was held late on the Saturday afternoon. The church bright from the low sun beating through the open west door, was a place of calm reflection as the guests waited for the bride’s arrival. A wedding held after the bulk of the day has been spent by attendees swimming and sunbathing, followed by →