Journey of Words

Tag: Travel

  • Time #1

    when it’s been really hot like today, close to the mid-point of June eventually the blue begins to thin as if mixed with a few drops of white spirit . the air moves a little faster adding cool to shade under the solitary oak crowning the rise . arrhythmic sounds of a distant road backwash →

  • Dream #17

    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 →

  • Dream #12

    England, June so hot, seek shelter curtained sleep buzzards call above canal blue flash of kingfisher martins and swallows streak across hedgerows dandelion clocks stop at full o’clock pollen clouds float on puffs of tired air perfect circles form where fish kiss the mirrored surface ~ CLP 06/06/2021 →

  • Dream #4

    Bonjour madame Monsieur, bonjour Je voudrais un pain au raisin et un pain au chocolat, si vous plait D’accord. À boire, monsieur? Ah, mais oui! Une tea, merci. Merci, monsieur. Et un vers d’eau, aussi? Sorry, mate, would you speak in English? I can’t take your accent anymore. Thanks for trying. ~ n.b. All errors →

  • On Water XLI

    as safe as houses riding out life’s peaks and troughs rowing with the flow ~ CLP 18/05/2021 →

  • On Dreams vii

    imagine a pub garden by a river, sunshine a soft breeze, laughter ~ n.b. Pinch me. CLP 10/05/2021 →

  • On Water xii

    dirty old canal lone Wellington boot floats questions unanswered ~ CLP 21/04/2021 →

  • At the platform there stood the London train

    …the London train that was packed with people people with different places to go places thronged with colleagues and / or friends friends some new, some known for years years that have fallen like blossom blossom scented with childhood memories memories diffused by time and tide tide that swept clear a foreign shore a foreign →

  • On Water ii

    a simple pleasure just being ferried abroad afloat beside you ~ CLP 11//04/2021 →

  • Do Not Alight Here…

    …the sign on the platform read provoking that bloody-minded reaction he saw as proof of living a life still worth it, worth everything worth going to bed with a stranger once more here might be the place that could throw things up burn the throat, whet the tongue revive, refresh, rekindle the screech of parakeets →