A late spring delight, The turban-shaped flowers, Bold and bright, Enfold memories of Holland; A single vibrant bloom In a vase, in a room, Summons up a multitude In a foreign field. In the garden, you stand, Dull, dry onions in your hand: Precious jewels Wrapped in brown paper. You push them deep Into the […]
Month: November 2015
Cows on a Foggy Morning
Cows stand as frozen Breath taken by the splendour Of sun-shattered fog
Fog
Morning is wrapped in a shroud The sky overflows with cloud Spilling silent spectres And diluting the sun Colour has been washed out The day has been wrung out Leaving foggy ghosts Limp as washing on a line
This was inspired by one of the photos I took on my walk the other week
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
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 