Final Resting Place Colourful colonies of lichen Abundant tiny beads Grow peacefully A quiet living crust Covers cold stone On a cold grave Obliterating names and dates Mummifying memories Celebrating death and decay
Day: November 1, 2015
Another oddquain
(a short poem with seventeen syllables in five lines: 1, 3, 5, 7, 1) Stinging Nettle Green Abundant The stinging nettle Fibre medicine and food Green
My first attempt at a Lento
I thought I would try writing a Lento after seeing one on ladyleemanila’s blog recently. A Lento has two quatrains with a fixed rhyme scheme of abcb defe, in which the first words of each line rhyme! Tigress Bursting orange through the trees Stalking the sun-dappled track Baring teeth as sharp as knives Wearing stripes […]
writing in north norfolk 