Imaginary Garden with Real Toads have surpassed themselves, by introducing a Bad Poetry Competition. They dare us to write a cringe making example on the spot, so how could I resist? It's not even 7am, but a ghostly shade of McGonagall crept close and whispered these words straight into my ear...
Ballad Verse From Bad To Worse
O mighty pen so full of ink,
of a bad poem make me think!
I long to see your old blue-black
pile up words like a pancake stack
of syrup covered waffle writing.
Mind you don't make it exciting.
Use no dictionary's rhyming,
only simple words let climb in
to your carefully built tower
of random ideas, wielding power.
Let them trickle down the page
and send real poets, in a rage,
to tear their hair and leave the scene
to stanzas who are all has beens..
"Has been whats?" I hear you cry
as a tear spills from your eye.
Then add a cliché, maybe two -
my heart will bleed for love of you.
And if you could concoct a sonnet,
I'd put a feather in my bonnet
in your honour, O quill pen.
When shall we two meet again?
Will it be before nightfall?
Or even, please God, not at all!
And I've linked this to d'Verse, hopefully to stop people becoming too serious over poetic niceties! LOL
7 Sept 2011
4 Sept 2011
Inspiration
Mind like a kaleidoscope stores
images and whirls them into space.
They loose identity, but reclaim soul
with each reincarnation of form.
Shapes and colours reinvent themselves,
lead down different pathways to an end
entirely unknown to their creator,
but recognised as the destination,
once is has appeared upon the screen.
Thanks to Tess at Magpie Tales for giving us this chance of yet another flight of fancy..
3 Sept 2011
James Dean
There is a tenuous link between this film personality and the following attempt at an Irish Sonnet I wrote today. I'd never heard of this particular sonnet form before, so I wrote down the rhyme scheme but not the name of the Blog on which I found it! If you recognise yourself as that blogger, please tell me where to find you again, and I'll add a link to your blog! Anyhow here's my offering.
Photographs give the lie to time,
capturing one moment in a frame.
Their magic is not easy to define,
for memory replays a different game
which doesn't guarantee to see the same
details locked within its secret room.
Its rose may answer to a different name,
with perfume tainted by an air of gloom
which leaves an aura of impending doom
to reminiscence of a bygone age,
enfolded as it is in every bloom.
Our players have already left the stage,
and though our sensibilities may rage,
our sadness at such loss we can't assuage.
Now I find d'Verse chose Silent Films for their prompt yesterday - And the coincidence of this film theme was too good to miss. I hope they forgive me...
I'm also linking this to Real Toads, if nobody minds...
Photographs give the lie to time,
capturing one moment in a frame.
Their magic is not easy to define,
for memory replays a different game
which doesn't guarantee to see the same
details locked within its secret room.
Its rose may answer to a different name,
with perfume tainted by an air of gloom
which leaves an aura of impending doom
to reminiscence of a bygone age,
enfolded as it is in every bloom.
Our players have already left the stage,
and though our sensibilities may rage,
our sadness at such loss we can't assuage.
Now I find d'Verse chose Silent Films for their prompt yesterday - And the coincidence of this film theme was too good to miss. I hope they forgive me...
I'm also linking this to Real Toads, if nobody minds...
Born Again
The Spirit of the Sea casts herself upon the rocks, a wave-death which ends only to be repeated with the next crest. Her victory over death is for all eternity.
Imaginary Garden With Real Toads gave us this picture for a Friday prompt. With Sunday already on the horizon, I have written 160 characters which will fit the bill for Monkey Man's weekly challenge, too. Thanks people!
2 Sept 2011
Tall Tales Tanka
Image courtesy of Ella |
Because Queen Sunfire
cannot come too close to Earth,
she sends Sunflowers.
cannot come too close to Earth,
she sends Sunflowers.
Rays from their shining petals
spread happiness in our hearts.
Thanks to Thursday Think Tank for this beautiful image prompt.
1 Sept 2011
Look!
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Adapted from an original image by Tess Kincaid |
to lift your spirits, make you smile.
Look to the sun,
whose daily toil is never done
but stretches out full many a mile
in order that it may beguile.
Look to the sun!
Thanks to Imaginary Garden, I've been beguiled into writing a Rondelet, a poetic form which will be explained for you if you click on their name above.
And while on the subject of sun, here are three Lanturnes, for good measure, with thanks to Margo Roby for introducing them to me - or me to them!
Sun
shining
overhead
creates inner
peace.
The
ripples
of shadows
help to soften
glare.
Their
blanket
will cover
until morning.
Sleep!
shining
overhead
creates inner
peace.
The
ripples
of shadows
help to soften
glare.
Their
blanket
will cover
until morning.
Sleep!
And now I've added the lot to Poetry Pantry, as waste not want not!
31 Aug 2011
Bookends
Stillness spreads
over the landscape
as morning
or evening
stands poised on the horizon
of another day.
over the landscape
as morning
or evening
stands poised on the horizon
of another day.
This shadorma (a six line stanza of 3/5/3/3/7/5 syllables) is for In Tandem #8
and for Natasha's picture, here's a haiku (5/7/5 syllables).
Mood adds its colour
to all our actions.
Life is a palette.
And now I've added these to Poetry Pantry Linky List, too.
28 Aug 2011
Shadows
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By Penny Smith |
And days fall like leaves from our tree of life...
Each changes colour between dawn and dusk,
makes a flutter of shadow across the moon's face
before a drift of stardust claims its soul.
But morning sunbeams clothe the tree anew
with furled and pleated leaf-buds made of gold.
A day unfolds according to a plan
held deep within its very substance, hidden.
No prying eyes of those who seek to learn
its final outcome from the start, will make
it give up secrets till the appointed time
for all to be revealed, and so we wait.
And days fall like leaves from our tree of life,
before a drift of stardust claims our souls.
Linked to Poets United Poetry Pantry #64 and d'Verse Open Link Night #7
26 Aug 2011
Sniff, Sniff!
A baby's skin fresh from its bath:
new mown grass: fresh coffee:
dusty pavements after the rain:
the smell of home-made toffee.
Sulphur fumes and rotten eggs:
burning rubber tyres:
dry seaweed on a muddy shore:
the remnants of a fire.
All of these may flood your nose
and keep your nostrils twitching,
but it is still a case of choice,
as to which you find bewitching!
The Thursday Think Tank is making our noses work today...
25 Aug 2011
Reminder For In Tandem #7 ?
I am a Mock Croc about to cry tears.
Nobody's seen me! It was one of my fears
that I'd be forgotten and stuck in a rut
because I moved house. I am sorry, but
I thought, with a Tandem, I'd not be alone.
That's why I set up a blog on its own...
No one's remembered where I hang out,
so from Alias Jinksy I'm giving a shout!
I won't snap my teeth, but give a croc smile
to any who come back in a little while
with poem or prose written in their own voice -
lets face it, people, I give you wide choice!
In case this leaves you thinking I have a case of the Galloping Nadgers, and have finally Flipped - well - perhaps I have. But this is one of the pictures I offered as a writing prompt this week, complete with a Mr Linky List, not included as part of an Alias Jinksy post, but as a purpose built, specially created home for my graphic fantasies on In Tandem. I see several Blogpals have already left comments on my sonnet written for the first picture, but only the lovely Natasha has be kind enough to add a comment, with a promise to return - which she has right royally done! Click on her name for a taste of Butter Cream... Thanks Natasha for trying to spread the word on my behalf, even if you are a lone voice crying in the wilderness! Hehehe!
Nobody's seen me! It was one of my fears
that I'd be forgotten and stuck in a rut
because I moved house. I am sorry, but
I thought, with a Tandem, I'd not be alone.
That's why I set up a blog on its own...
No one's remembered where I hang out,
so from Alias Jinksy I'm giving a shout!
I won't snap my teeth, but give a croc smile
to any who come back in a little while
with poem or prose written in their own voice -
lets face it, people, I give you wide choice!
In case this leaves you thinking I have a case of the Galloping Nadgers, and have finally Flipped - well - perhaps I have. But this is one of the pictures I offered as a writing prompt this week, complete with a Mr Linky List, not included as part of an Alias Jinksy post, but as a purpose built, specially created home for my graphic fantasies on In Tandem. I see several Blogpals have already left comments on my sonnet written for the first picture, but only the lovely Natasha has be kind enough to add a comment, with a promise to return - which she has right royally done! Click on her name for a taste of Butter Cream... Thanks Natasha for trying to spread the word on my behalf, even if you are a lone voice crying in the wilderness! Hehehe!
24 Aug 2011
Bring It On
How do I paint a mood, capture the sun
on a day when grey has washed away its gold,
when life has scoured the shine off everyone
and left them shadowed, jaded, feeling old?
I feel the thoughts of others in my mind,
and listen to their sadness. With written words
I try to soothe their pain. I search to find
an answer to those unasked pleas I've heard
for their spirits to be lightened, lifted...
Happiness, not easy to define,
waits to surface once all mists have shifted
from perception of the path. Time
revolves, so changes how we view each day,
and by such means must banish all dismay.
This is a late entry for Poetry Jam, and an early one for In tandem! I've also sneaked it into d'Verse Poetry Pub by the skin of my teeth...
on a day when grey has washed away its gold,
when life has scoured the shine off everyone
and left them shadowed, jaded, feeling old?
I feel the thoughts of others in my mind,
and listen to their sadness. With written words
I try to soothe their pain. I search to find
an answer to those unasked pleas I've heard
for their spirits to be lightened, lifted...
Happiness, not easy to define,
waits to surface once all mists have shifted
from perception of the path. Time
revolves, so changes how we view each day,
and by such means must banish all dismay.
This is a late entry for Poetry Jam, and an early one for In tandem! I've also sneaked it into d'Verse Poetry Pub by the skin of my teeth...
22 Aug 2011
For Sale
It's window shopping,
not the usual method.
Smiles three-a-penny.
With thanks to Tess for her prompt at Magpie Tales.
21 Aug 2011
Sunday 160
Monkey Man started me thinking about hands with his post today. He asks that we contain our thoughts in 160 characters.
Young hands with a world of exploration at their fingertips, hold a new piece of gadgetry. There is much they will have to learn about life, let alone a phone.
I think this will double up for Susannah's I Saw Sunday as well! Two birds with one stone, and all that!
18 Aug 2011
Thursday Think Tank #62
See Poets United for more alphabet soup...
Third in line,
in Penelope
or Jinksy.
Two names joined from head to toe
complete my picture.
in Penelope
or Jinksy.
Two names joined from head to toe
complete my picture.
17 Aug 2011
Be Cool!
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by Penny Smith |
Water-world
imagination
paints colours
in cool shades
to fill fevered hearts and minds
with serenity.
imagination
paints colours
in cool shades
to fill fevered hearts and minds
with serenity.
This is a shadorma I've written for In Tandem #6, a syllabic verse of 3/5/3/3/7/5 over six lines. I've also linked it to The Poetry Pantry.
10 Aug 2011
In Tandem # 5
My widget has no shelf life! It will remain for a good week, so using one or both images as inspiration:-
- Write your piece - poem, prose, whatever (just not too long, though, eh?)
- Post it on your own blog (and help yourself to a picture)
- Copy and paste the URL of your post, not blog, into the Linky Widget
- Leave a comment, then go and see what some other Blogpals have come up with!
- Have fun, people- but please note, this Mr Linky List is not there simply as a free lead in to your totally unrelated blog! All such entries from people not playing the game will be deleted.
1. Caddoc Trellis 2. A New Day 3. Jinksy 4. jabblog uk | 5. Ricardo 6. Rinkly Rimes 7. vivienne blake 8. Sweta -1st pic | 9. CC Champagne 10. Ann Grenier |
Powered by... Mister Linky's Magical Widgets.
3 Aug 2011
In Tandem #4
My widget has no shelf life! It will remain for a good week, so using one or both images as inspiration:-
- Write your piece - poem, prose, whatever (just not too long, though, eh?)
- Post it on your own blog (and help yourself to a picture)
- Copy and paste the URL of your post, not blog, into the Linky Widget
- Leave a comment, then go and see what some other Blogpals have come up with!
- Have fun, people...
1 Aug 2011
Spin Off
A blistering sun
whirls to spin heat waves to Earth.
Dragon breathes fire.
whirls to spin heat waves to Earth.
Dragon breathes fire.
Thanks to Tess for a Magpie Prompt which set my mind spinning in other directions!
And because hot weather makes everybody think watery thoughts, here's a picture from BKM at Monday's Child, which will cool us all nicely!
Frogs went a-leaping, one two three.
Duck went a-quacking "Come with me!
Let's go for a paddle till it's time for tea!"
Little boy listened, hands on his knees.
"Look, I've got my shoes off! I'm ready as can be!"
And because hot weather makes everybody think watery thoughts, here's a picture from BKM at Monday's Child, which will cool us all nicely!
Frogs went a-leaping, one two three.
Duck went a-quacking "Come with me!
Let's go for a paddle till it's time for tea!"
Little boy listened, hands on his knees.
"Look, I've got my shoes off! I'm ready as can be!"
30 Jul 2011
I Saw Sunday

Green spirals seek anchorage for a scarlet bug... and a plane hums by overhead, drawing a straight line in the summer sky.
Thanks to Susannah for this prompt, which makes us think more about what we see, and to Monkey Man, who challenges us to say something in 160 characters. By judicious editing, the first paragraph fits this criteria!
Jammy Dodgers?
From her Poetry Jam grandstand view in seat number 47, The Bug has asked us to cogitate upon what life will look like from seat 67. To make this more difficult, she asks rhymers not to rhyme.
So here's a little prose, instead... in 67 words!
So here's a little prose, instead... in 67 words!
Sixty seven? Twist that to seventy six. In six years that may be me...But I live in the now of not knowing, while showing scant interest in tomorrow. For today is sufficient to do some of the things I should, plus many things which I simply choose to do. Did I imagine this simplicity would be possible when the path from forty seven stretched before me?
29 Jul 2011
A Friday 55
The sky cries; its tears fall faster, as the drumming rhythm increases. Outlines blur, and foliage cowers under the deluge.
But clouds creep away, and only intermittent teardrops drip and plop about house and garden. The outdoor face, full of wet day sadness, peers through my windows, to see if I sympathise with its sorrow.
55 words and 1 picture hot off the press for G-Man today!
55 words and 1 picture hot off the press for G-Man today!
27 Jul 2011
In Tandem #3
This week the Tandem has two riders! Margaret Bednar has offered one of her original artworks to accompany mine. I thought our two styles of portraits might make an interesting contrast...
They seemed to have a strange affinity, one with the other .
Maybe this is another chance for the storytellers. Let's see...Using one or both images as inspiration:-
They seemed to have a strange affinity, one with the other .
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digital sketch by jinksy |
- Write your piece - poem, prose, whatever (just not too long, though, eh?)
- Post it on your own blog (and help yourself to a picture)
- Copy and paste the URL of your post, not blog, into the Linky Widget
- Leave a comment, then go and see what some other Blogpals have come up with!
- Have fun, people...
20 Jul 2011
In Tandem
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by jinksy |
- Write your piece - poem, prose, whatever (just not TOO long, though, eh?)
- Post it on your own blog (and help yourself to my picture)
- Copy and paste the URL of your post, not blog, into the Linky Widget
- Leave a comment, then go and see what some other Blogpals have come up with!
- Have fun, people...
19 Jul 2011
A Spoonful Of Jam?
Wide Awake
It’s night - the urge to sleep is gone.
Inexorably time ticks on.
Fussy, mechanical, busy tick-tock
of wind up alarm or mantel clock,
or spasmodic click of a battery quartz,
soft and even.
They’re companions of sorts,
for nothing is worse
in the stillness of night
than silence –
dark, complete and utter,
when hovering thoughts intrude
to scutter around inside my brain.
Soon, there I go,
tossing and turning again.
Here I am, late, scraping out the pot of Poetry Jam belonging to Jessica Maybury this week.
Now it's Thursday Think Tank who have come up with a nighttime theme, so I couldn't resist linking this!
It’s night - the urge to sleep is gone.
Inexorably time ticks on.
Fussy, mechanical, busy tick-tock
of wind up alarm or mantel clock,
or spasmodic click of a battery quartz,
soft and even.
They’re companions of sorts,
for nothing is worse
in the stillness of night
than silence –
dark, complete and utter,
when hovering thoughts intrude
to scutter around inside my brain.
Soon, there I go,
tossing and turning again.
Here I am, late, scraping out the pot of Poetry Jam belonging to Jessica Maybury this week.
Now it's Thursday Think Tank who have come up with a nighttime theme, so I couldn't resist linking this!
18 Jul 2011
Another Man In An Iron Mask?
There once was a wrestler from Hay
whose face was so ugly, they say,
that people would ask
that he wear a black mask
to hide his poor physog away.
Thanks to Tess for her Magpie Marvel this week..
whose face was so ugly, they say,
that people would ask
that he wear a black mask
to hide his poor physog away.
Thanks to Tess for her Magpie Marvel this week..
13 Jul 2011
In Tandem
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graphic by jinksy |
What I read gave me the urge to produce a picture to fit, instead of the usual practice of her writing to fit my graphic!
I'm going to post it alone, with only a Mr Linky List, so anybody who decides to use it as a prompt, will not be influenced by her interpretation. But later in the week, I shall come back and edit the post to include Elizabeth's words.***
***And here they are
Golden wheat sways
beneath summer skies,
feeding hungry eyes
with promise of good
things remembered,
others still to come.
beneath summer skies,
feeding hungry eyes
with promise of good
things remembered,
others still to come.
By Elizabeth Crawford 11/6/2011
Meantime:-- Write your piece - poem, prose, whatever (just not TOO long, though, eh?)
- Post it on your own blog (and help yourself to my picture)
- Copy and paste the URL of your post, not blog, into the Linky Widget
- Leave a comment, then go and see what some other Blogpals have come up with!
- Have fun, people...
10 Jul 2011
Housey Housey?
Narrow street,
teeming lives hidden;
close packed doors
and windows
challenge people's privacy
with tight juxtaposition.
This is my shadorma, written for Neil Alexanders's photo as featured on One Stop Poetry's Challenge today.
For those who are unfamiliar with this form, it consists of six syllabic lines, 3/5/3/3/7/7, and I particularly like it as an accompaniment to photographs.
Oops! Just realised that should have been 3/5/3/3/7/5 - sorry, people!
teeming lives hidden;
close packed doors
and windows
challenge people's privacy
with tight juxtaposition.
This is my shadorma, written for Neil Alexanders's photo as featured on One Stop Poetry's Challenge today.
For those who are unfamiliar with this form, it consists of six syllabic lines, 3/5/3/3/7/7, and I particularly like it as an accompaniment to photographs.
Oops! Just realised that should have been 3/5/3/3/7/5 - sorry, people!
7 Jul 2011
Two In Tandem # 9
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By Jinksy |
autumn forest, playing
hide and seek with ever
changing shadows.
Piercing eyes spot
small movement.
She dives, releasing
cry of victory.
By Elizabeth 6/7/2011
Elizabeth Crawford caught the swift beat of wings in her words for this last minute change of my graphic for today's Tandem.
But I've now decided to include the very different image I'd originally planned, to give people a choice of mood, if soaring wings should pass by them too quickly!
- Write your piece - poem, prose, whatever (just not TOO long, though, eh?)
- Post it
- Copy and paste the URL of your post, not blog, into the Linky Widget
- Leave a comment, then go and see what some other Blogpals have come up with!
- Have fun, people...
4 Jul 2011
Wheatfield With Rising Sun
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By VincentVan Gogh |
In a mind
not far from madness
speed of thought
left its marks
on canvas which we enjoy
in the cold light of reason.
The sun's light
shines from the painting
and we feel
the painter's
exuberant excitement
at capturing its power.
Who can say
where dividing lines lay?
Genius...
Lunacy...
Does beauty need a label
before it achieves value?
not far from madness
speed of thought
left its marks
on canvas which we enjoy
in the cold light of reason.
The sun's light
shines from the painting
and we feel
the painter's
exuberant excitement
at capturing its power.
Who can say
where dividing lines lay?
Genius...
Lunacy...
Does beauty need a label
before it achieves value?
Thanks to Tess at Magpie Tales #72 for this artistic prompt.
Hop To It!
Rabbits lollop round about
and nibble at the treats
I carry in my bucket.
The grass tickles my feet,
and I have to keep them very still
while I watch the bunnies eat,
so they won't get frightened
and dash away from me...
I like to have them visit
and and say '"Hello!" you see.
For Monday's Child #50 - illustration by Clara Burd, with thanks to bkm.
and nibble at the treats
I carry in my bucket.
The grass tickles my feet,
and I have to keep them very still
while I watch the bunnies eat,
so they won't get frightened
and dash away from me...
I like to have them visit
and and say '"Hello!" you see.
For Monday's Child #50 - illustration by Clara Burd, with thanks to bkm.
30 Jun 2011
Two In Tandem # 8
Dragon flies
through the night
leaving trail
of emerald light.
Do not mistake him
for Northern Lights-
he tells a story
of different sights.
Should he cause a breeze
with his shadowed flight,
you need have no fear…
he’ll not alight …
He prefers jewels
that match his tail,
and we human beings
are far too pale!
through the night
leaving trail
of emerald light.
Do not mistake him
for Northern Lights-
he tells a story
of different sights.
Should he cause a breeze
with his shadowed flight,
you need have no fear…
he’ll not alight …
He prefers jewels
that match his tail,
and we human beings
are far too pale!
Elizabeth Crawford has provided suitably draconian words for this week's Two in Tandem, and the Mister Linky List will give you a chance to copy the picture and post your own, if you feel inspired!
- Write your piece
- Post it
- Copy and paste the URL of your post, not blog, into the Linky Widget
- leave a comment, then go and see what some other Blogpals have come up with!
- Have fun, people...
27 Jun 2011
Polywogs?
Cool water's
hidden universe,
full of life,
holds many
marvels man can only see
by altering his viewpoint.
Another Magpie Tales challenge. Thanks Tess!
hidden universe,
full of life,
holds many
marvels man can only see
by altering his viewpoint.
Another Magpie Tales challenge. Thanks Tess!
26 Jun 2011
Up Where The Air Is Clear
Blue skies have depths where eyes travel light year distances with the blink of an eyelid's lash. They sweep away thought - and the mind free falls into space.
This is my Sunday 160 for Monkey Man, who is anything but blue!
This is my Sunday 160 for Monkey Man, who is anything but blue!
23 Jun 2011
Two In Tandem # 7
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graphic by jinksy |
Like
brush strokes,
memory
unfolds moving
deeper into past
where dark red of former
passion captures eye, holding
attention for way too many
moments, giving rise to old feelings
gone to sepia stain of forgetting.
Elizabeth Crawford 6/18/11
Today, here is a thoughtful poem in Etheree form , written by Elizabeth, to accompany my seventh Tandem graphic, while she has graphics on her Unraveling blog for which I've written the words.
Now here for the first time is a Linky List, so you can help yourself to my 'painting' to use on your own blog, if the muse strikes and you'd like to join in.
- Write your piece
- Post it
- Copy and paste the URL of your post, not blog, into the Linky Widget
- Then go and see what some other Blogpals have come up with!
22 Jun 2011
Wednesday's Child Is Full Of Woe
What better place to flaunt this old saying, than on One Shot Poetry Wednesday?
Instead of being a lie-abed, I opted for starting the day by letting my sleep deprived mind do a little daydreaming, instead. Which may explain this peculiar result...
No News Blues
Before a sign of sun signals
sensible souls to stir,
a four-in-the-morning moment
dies a dull doldrums, slack tide death.
Will Wednesday
be a walk on the wild side
or a flash-in-the-pan panjandrum
of mid-week melancholy?
Too early to tell; toll the knell
and let who will be merry...
I hope to be back to normal in time for Two In Tandem tomorrow, when I shall endeavour to include a Linky List to tempt people to join in our Thursday frolics, the first of which you may find by clicking on the Tandem link above.
Instead of being a lie-abed, I opted for starting the day by letting my sleep deprived mind do a little daydreaming, instead. Which may explain this peculiar result...
Before a sign of sun signals
sensible souls to stir,
a four-in-the-morning moment
dies a dull doldrums, slack tide death.
Will Wednesday
be a walk on the wild side
or a flash-in-the-pan panjandrum
of mid-week melancholy?
Too early to tell; toll the knell
and let who will be merry...
I hope to be back to normal in time for Two In Tandem tomorrow, when I shall endeavour to include a Linky List to tempt people to join in our Thursday frolics, the first of which you may find by clicking on the Tandem link above.
20 Jun 2011
Take Notice
Jumping bean letters imprint images,
but no ink-stained fingers for them
only a tapping key tarantella
danced on a keyboard.
"Free board and lodging
for hard working words.
Must earn their keep."
So reads a notice in the window
of a mind in search of free verse.
See One Stop Poetry and Fireblossom for an explanation of this departure from my usual course!
And while it's still Monday, Magpie Tales nudged me to play with this other kind of framed image, and I decided to put them together, although a shadorma is not exactly free verse...
Set in stone,
this gem of beauty
has facets
carved in light.
Across untold centuries
its gaze will haunt us.
but no ink-stained fingers for them
only a tapping key tarantella
danced on a keyboard.
"Free board and lodging
for hard working words.
Must earn their keep."
So reads a notice in the window
of a mind in search of free verse.
See One Stop Poetry and Fireblossom for an explanation of this departure from my usual course!
And while it's still Monday, Magpie Tales nudged me to play with this other kind of framed image, and I decided to put them together, although a shadorma is not exactly free verse...
Set in stone,
this gem of beauty
has facets
carved in light.
Across untold centuries
its gaze will haunt us.
19 Jun 2011
Maffick Monday # 1

in the far off days of my youth.
Some were handsome and sprightly,
but others were brash and uncouth.
My toes got the bruises to prove it,
and patience would wear a bit thin,
but I never gave up on researching
the best bloke to lead me in a spin.
Too tall, and my nose hit the buttons
on their blazer or jacket, you see...
too short and their nose was the problem
because of where it reached on me...
I'd feel their hot breath down my cleavage,
and if their feet then lost the beat,
my toes would recoil in mock horror,
and I'd beat a hasty retreat!
Alicia's new Maffick Monday blog chose 'a terrible dancer' theme for her first prompt. Although the picture came via Google Images, I do actually have three ancient medals of my own - two for Ballroom and one for Latin American - all from the same ISTD examiners, so personally, I can be excused from the 'terrible' label, I think !
18 Jun 2011
School's Out!
On a sunny, blustery afternoon last Monday, I'd finished my shopping, and decided to sit and watch the world go by before I came back to cook my meal.
The 'baby school' had just finished for the day, and I saw a tiny tot in her blue and white checked dress, pony tail swinging, trot past holding Dad's hand, looking very earnest.
A few moments later, she passed by again in the other direction, but this time holding a huge, chocolate topped ring doughnut from which she'd already taken a few bites. They had left her with brown striped cheeks, which made her look like The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland.... I smiled...and I hope you do too! :)
This is a just a little snippet for I Saw Sunday , where you can find more things seen, heard or created this week...
The 'baby school' had just finished for the day, and I saw a tiny tot in her blue and white checked dress, pony tail swinging, trot past holding Dad's hand, looking very earnest.
A few moments later, she passed by again in the other direction, but this time holding a huge, chocolate topped ring doughnut from which she'd already taken a few bites. They had left her with brown striped cheeks, which made her look like The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland.... I smiled...and I hope you do too! :)
This is a just a little snippet for I Saw Sunday , where you can find more things seen, heard or created this week...
16 Jun 2011
Two In Tandem # 6
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graphic by jinksy |
Crystal Cave
of childhood
imagination
sparks memory
of long ago sense
of wonder,
safety
never to be found
again.
Elizabeth Crawford
12/6/2011
Here is the latest collaboration - Elizabeth's words and my 'painting', which you are welcome to use on your blog if you you'd like to join in...but do leave us a link, so we can visit. Otherwise, if your muse strikes, you can always give her free rein in a comment here!
At Unraveling each Tuesday, the roles are reversed, for Elizabeth posts my poems inspired by her artwork. Do feel free to play along. Susannah, at Panopticulated has already decided to do so, and
I couldn't resist linking to Poets United Thursday Think Tank, as they have a seaside theme today. Although I had no subject in my conscious mind when I began painting, the end result did feel as though it encompassed land and water - i.e. some Neverland beach...
15 Jun 2011
Disillusion
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graphic by jinksy |
His dimples dented my heartstrings. Eighteen
to his twenty, we had plenty in common;
shared an uncommon view of the world...
and pig sties...
"Look, Pigloos!" he christened them,
eyes laughing. To his achitectural mind,
a toadstool ring turned into a town centre
from plans drawn up by a pixie council...
Like fools, we built fantasies.
But fate's hard hat could not prevent
demolition of our dreams. Too late
to alter direction, the next roundabout
forced us to take different lanes...
Half a life later, we met at a junction,
rode a dual carriageway, cruising...
until we crashed in a final pile up
when a danger sign said 'Road Closed'.
I've linked to One Shot Wednesday, even though I wrote this on Monday!
13 Jun 2011
Meditation For Monday
Are these whorls
a shell's fingerprints?
Or only
signs of time
spiralling beyond knowing
of either man or mollusc?
Which life force
teaches them to grow
according
to numbers
whose elegant mastery
a shell's fingerprints?
Or only
signs of time
spiralling beyond knowing
of either man or mollusc?
Which life force
teaches them to grow
according
to numbers
whose elegant mastery
creates their fragile beauty?
With thanks to Tess at Magpie Tales.
9 Jun 2011
Street Art
Graffiti
takes on a new life
as colours
are altered,
backgrounds eliminated.
A work of art is revealed.
One Stop Poetry has a selection of pictures of this genre, but this one cries out for recognition...I apologise to the original artist for tinkering with his creation!
takes on a new life
as colours
are altered,
backgrounds eliminated.
A work of art is revealed.
One Stop Poetry has a selection of pictures of this genre, but this one cries out for recognition...I apologise to the original artist for tinkering with his creation!
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