I have posted my entry for Wicked Word Wednesday on runninginmyhead.com. Go there to vote for your favourite entry. Deluge Today It has done nothing But rain Again Fluctuating fluidly Between Persistent drizzle And heavy downpour Clouds Pause Pregnant with it Gutters gargle with it Inundated With watery wetness Not enough flood To build an […]
Day: October 7, 2015
As I have a busy morning…
this is the last poem for today. Silver Birch Oldest and tallest tree in the garden Nurturing fungi at its base Surrounded by moss And wild flowers The blackened and rugged trunk Stretches up its warty limbs Shedding bark like silvery tissue To its faded yellow canopy Where woodpecker and owl Sit among its drooping […]
More of the tin soldier
The Steadfast Tin Soldier Part 2 The tin soldier wished For the paper dancer To become his paper wife, But she lived in a castle And was too refined To spend her paper life In a crowded cardboard carton. When the lid was placed over The rest of the troop Only the soldier remained; His […]