From this common land, Earth Day brings six large sacks of litter – discarded fragments collected piece by piece – extendable picking arms, click in weekday sunshine. Sacks stacked carefully beside a litter bin, a multitude of plastics, foil, metal
From moment to moment…
Even now, after over twenty years, there is a certain mystery about exactly what happened, and why, especially why. Seemingly out of nowhere, the world took on a certain magic, conjured coincidences, showed me new meaning in things, places, people,
Permission
The green light is given, pumping billions into the high-speed race for ballast and steel, ploughing through sunlit wood and glade. Destruction quantified; the track hacking a path into irreplaceable reserves, forests centuries old, systematically felled, remnants trailing in the
YouTube Videos
YouTube XXX1 – Chilling Rooms This is the thirty-first in a series of poems, and reflections, with the underlying themes of creativity, mental health and the environment, drawing on my experience of bipolar disorder. Many years ago, when I was
Tunbridge Wells Friends of the Earth Poetry & Prose Competition 2020
CLOSED – Wednesday 19th August 2020 Please enter your ECO-Poetry or ECO-Prose here: steve@makingconnectionsmatter.org Under 12 Results from earlier this year Friends of the Earth Tunbridge Wells are delighted to report that, as a first stage, a prize has been
Covid Phase 1 – An Ending
In the Shadow of the Sun The breaking of silences has begun put it behind us and move on rupture the edifice of dreams – icicle tears collapse in lockdown’s thaw until it’s as if nothing had
It is enough…
It is enough to sit, to think, to be to know your presence in the length of time that brought you here and to acknowledge your final passing… +++ Writing in Mum’s notebook Your words
Psyche – Spring
Sometimes the harmony of words is more painful than a wound
Equinox
Equinox It’s as if an invisible snow has fallen, and the streets become quiet and cautious. Even with virus, in sunshine the air seems clear – less gases, particulates – every breath we take so much more precious.
April
April Because it is life Because we have broken dreams Because for now, we have life Because there is love Because it is Because © Steve Walter
Rebel XR
Rebel XR Rebel because it isn’t fair Rebel because it matters Rebel because we are one blood Rebel to save our planet Rebel because it’s their fault Rebel against greed, greed, greed Rebel with a cause Rebel because it
Friend of the Earth, An Apology
Friend of the Earth, an Apology Forgive me, I confess: I have a house, gas central heating and a car. Well, two cars, one older which I use for work. I have a motorbike (hardly used) and a