The undulating premise of purpose To take time To walk A Camino A pilgrimage of contemporary yearning To walk the walk Or to talk the walk Of exploration along Spiritual time-honoured pathways Haven’t written words for a while Perhaps words have left To venture ventures Where lyrics flirt A dalliance With a sultry swirl On … More Walking an ancient pathway – Camiño Francés from León to Santiago

The cause of reflection In momentary pause Poetry in motion At Moscow’s train station Excitedly waiting With passport and bag With time to mind To watch and observe The choreographed dance A myriad of journeys’ In variant rush, A discordant crisscross To noisy applause The screech of rail The whistling guards, And off to the … More A brief sojourn in Russia and Scandinavia. Part Two

Communist Russia. The mere words bred agitation for my parents in the early 1960’s. The Cold War, the Cuban revolution, Russian involvement in Cuba, the proximity of Cuba to the United States, the possibility of another world war. Russian dominance. Russia, Moscow, The Kremlin. A time, a threat, anxiously real and reminiscant of a feudal … More A brief sojourn in Russia and Scandinavia. Part One