I saw this on Facebook and thought it was too beautiful to not share. The second short film is the best one of ‘A Kite is a Victim’ . http://www.openculture.com/2013/07/the-poetry-of-leonard-cohen-illustrated-by-two-short-films.html
Month: August 2015
A puzzle
How have I managed to get 19 likes today when the stats show only 1 view and 1 visitor (from Mexico) to only the home page and archives? Has something gone wrong?
Update on the short story
I did what I said and read blogs. The newspaper hasn’t arrived yet so I couldn’t read that. But I did go back to some old ideas for short stories and found something that I wrote last year. It was only about 540 words long, but it was the germ of a story and I have […]
Looking for inspiration
I finished the portfolio of five poems for the 2015 Manchester Writing Competition yesterday. Now I am searching for inspiration for a short story. The brief states that it can be on any subject but must be the entrant’s own original writing, and should not have appeared in print or on a website, including blogs […]
The simple pleasures of childhood
Childhood Haiku Innocent pleasure Circles on a tricycle You were the axis
The Empire kicks back
I just had to share this article from The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2015/aug/20/star-wars-another-stormtrooper-day-off-in-pictures?CMP=fb_gu
Writing is not on hold
I am currently putting together a portfolio of three to five poems for the 2015 Manchester Writing Competition. Two poems pretty much wrote themselves yesterday morning, which is the way I often develop ideas, letting the words and phrases form spontaneously before deliberation and polishing. The third poem was one I had started quite some […]
A new haiku
Fountain Haiku For a split second Lucent droplets are captured In frozen splendour
Here’s something for bloggers on the North American continent
I saw this BBC Culture post on Facebook and thought it might spark a debate! http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150820-why-is-canadian-english-unique
Autumn makes a dramatic entrance
A cloud of minute Water droplets suspended In the atmosphere A shrouded signpost Announces the equinox The yielding season
writing in north norfolk 