Collect car Monday, lots to sort!
6WS – It’s amazing what you can do with a pumpkin!
31 May 2014 Leave a comment
in Minimal Word Stones Tags: budgeting, car, changing your car, excitement, good deal or dodgy deal?, Honda, Honda Jazz, Jazz, negotiating car insurance, new car, new wheels, test drive, used cars, used motors
Ode to a Toad
29 May 2014 Leave a comment
in free verse, Poetry Tags: amphibians, animals, death, frogs, Life, nature, obliviousness, poetry, sadness, spirituality, toads
I saw you there
And stopped to exchange
Just a word or two.
You didn’t reply
But then I didn’t
Really expect you to,
So I passed on
And left you to your
Silent reverie.
Today you were
Still there – surrounded
By potentially
Tasty morsels but
You took no notice…
And you looked thinner…
I picked you up,
Moved you to somewhere
Where you could
Rest in peace.
Curiously Convincing
22 May 2014 Leave a comment
in free verse, Poetry Tags: cinema screening, drama, Live, Mark Haddon, poetry, special effects, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, theatre
You could have heard a pin drop
Wide-mouthed we all let out an involuntary gasp…
Will he be pulled to safety in time?
The tube track is merely suggested
By two lines of LED lights on a bare stage…
We all know and love this plot – we know it ends well!
Such is the power.
Incredible acting,
Oh-so-clever lighting techniques…
Astral voices
21 May 2014 2 Comments
in free verse, Poetry Tags: connecting, drumming, mindfulness, music, musings, otherworldly, poetry, shamanistic drumming, singing, spirituality, transcendence
The offbeat provides
A change of tempo
Increasing the pace,
Catching momento.
Closing my eyes
It’s then I hear them.
The sound of gentle
Song soaring within
The rhythmic beat.
I look around.
No one is there
Except our circle
Of drummers all –
Engrossed…and mute.
The music is ours
Felt through fingertips
and palms and the sway
of our torsos,
Yet a choir of
Tribal souls are here
Present in this room.
photo credit: http://schoolofhealingarts.com/whole-being-weekend-2/
In remote areas some people are crofters, fishermen, weavers, artists, run a guest house and have a day job
20 May 2014 Leave a comment
in observational prose Tags: earning a living, employment, jobs, money, musings, perspective, Scotland, Teaching
Teaching tomorrow but, at an extra £2.50 per hour, that alone won’t pay for car repairs. Filling in part-time job applications – fingers crossed…
Under a Thundercloud
19 May 2014 2 Comments
in free verse, Poetry Tags: child, daughter, family, fear, independence, lightning, poetry, rain, Storm, thunder, weather
Outside the thunder
growls ominously
while the rain
drums furiously
on the new
spring shoots.
Lightning not visible…
yet
I know that I was
in a bad mood when
she went out
but
I wish she’d ring…
Minimal Word Monday – How would you feel…?
19 May 2014 Leave a comment
in humour, Minimal Word Stones Tags: bad mood, black cloud, down in the dumps, emotions, family, unhappiness
Dumpy Grumpy
photo: http://weirdanimalreport.com/article/blob-deep
