Month: March 2016

Night Mare on the Moor

My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #104   On a desolate windswept dreamscape of granite and peat, muted moss blends into bracken beaten into submission by wuthering winds. Overhead, turbulent watercolours of a nightmare gather in the sky. Scratched by a pair of ravens’ gravelly tones, the sleepwalker stirs in a tangle of burs […]

The Owl and the Moon

My response to dVerse Poets Pub Haibun Monday #9 – moon Owls are truly mesmerising birds, with their moon-round eyes, sharp beaks and talons. Some are beautiful while others are comical; all are fierce hunters, skimming the ground silently to swoop on their prey. I rarely see the owls haunting the silver birch trees that […]

Early Morning Words

After reading Jane Dougherty’s pearl of a poem this morning, I thought I’d give a circular poem a try as my response to the Secret Keeper’s Weekly Writing Prompt #28!   Arriving on winter’s tail feathers, Weather’s cool but sunny; Funny how the sun seems so bright. Light mornings draw me from my sleep; Deep dreams […]

Night-time at the Tattoo Parlour

My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #101 In the gorgeous glare of neon, novitiates of nyctophilia congregate like moths, lurking by the irregular structure of the tattoo parlour, terrorising clients and siphoning erogenous thoughts as they lie on the adjustable chair, captives of the eristic artist for as long as it takes to pierce and ink […]