#poetryriot Under the Waves Earth: a unique gem Of aquamarine hues Of green, white and blue, Suspended in the hollow Expanse of space, Where silence echoes. Under the waves, Under the watery skin, Is a world Inside a world; Depths of abundant life Diverse and mysterious. Fragile and precarious, Precious. On the surface Oceans that […]
Day: September 25, 2015
A Friday Tanka
Yesterday I had a walk around our garden and noticed that the gnarled old quince tree has once again borne fruit – I just can’t reach it as it is hanging from the very top branches of the tree! The quince resembles a large bright yellow lumpy pear. It originally came from the Middle East and […]
A quote poem for Friday
Books are Cold and Certain Friends ‘Les livres sont des amis froids et sûrs’ Victor Hugo My friends are books: Pages of paper Sewn together, Clothed in distinctive Divergent covers. Colourful volumes, Weighty tomes, Slim softbacks Of poetry and stories Crowd my shelves, Clamour for attention, Welcome me into their worlds. But when I have read […]
A fairy tale
After reading Sacha Black’s Write Inspiration #59: What happened after ‘Happily Ever After’? I thought about some of my favourite fairy tales. When I was a child I had a beautiful old-fashioned translation of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales, which I read over and over. One of my favourites is ‘The Little Mermaid’. I decided […]
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