Journey of Words

Tag: Truth

  • on tenderness

    this lives somewhere within and between usexists not without, cannot survive aloneforms around us, surely not beyond usfear not the performance, fear not the actdoes time and place and circumstance persistto permit retrieval of such gentleness? ~ CLP 24/05/2022 →

  • on colour

    pretty, isn’t it?yellow with a tint of redopening petals ~ CLP 17/05/2022 →

  • on time

    it is all we haveyesterday is not todaywe shape tomorrow ~ n.b. The hands of time are in our hands, the sands of time run through our fingers. CLP 02/05/2022 →

  • Voice

    It started with a kissit was uncalled foryou called me outwho was I to dare lean in?how dare I presume intimacyyour anger gave you voiceyour voice at last had found youyou had plenty that you had to sayplenty more to come when that was saidgenerations of mothers spoke through youwhat these mothers spoke was truthpreviously →

  • on Ukraine xx

    where is the exit?each day fresh atrocityeveryday the same ~ CLP 20/03/2022 →

  • on light

    recognisablethough decades lie between uswater broken moon ~ CLP 17/03/2022 →

  • on time / on Ukraine xix

    the truth hurts, it burnseats at our souls if we liesomething more than words ~ n.b. The truth will out. For Marina Ovsyannikova this was the time to stand up and speak her truth. CLP 15/03/2022 →

  • on time

    as children we understandwhat is fair and what is notso what makes it right to let things gobecause “it is what it is”?nothing changes when we do nothingstand up and be counted ~ n.b. I was a child when this protest took place. It remains as powerful an image as ever. If it’s wrong, call →

  • on light

    Waterloo sunsetbounces off bus sat on redcity plays the blues ~ n.b. Something changed today. The truth is out; money might buy influence, or purchase trophies, but there is still right and wrong. Somebody finally turned the floodlights on Stamford Bridge. ~ CLP 10/03/2022 →

  • on time

    remind me how you knowyour truth is the holy onea poet wrote it? ~ CLP 07/03/2022 →