Between 24th March and 9th July this year, I submitted the manuscript of my novel for children, Joe and Nelly, to sixteen agents and four publishers. Today I received my sixth rejection from an agent. I am hoping that when agents and publishers say that it will take up to three months to reply, it means […]
Category: Journal
My daily journal: comments, thoughts and poetry on daily events.
The last poem for today
Helianthus In a covert patch Amongst cornfields Flowers of radiant yellow Turn buds skywards Tracking the sun From east to west … September And yellow-rayed faces Of fibonacci spirals No longer teased By bees Face only east … They are short-lived Growing heavy-headed Threatened by the distant Thrumming of birds That swoop to pick And […]
I wrote this poem before I remembered we had a fitting photo
Cat Meditation In the stillness of a sunbeam That sneaked past a sky full of cloud Cats stretch out in yoga poses Contentment purring long and loud Sun-warmed tails twitch now and then Velvet paws knead the mote-flecked beam Luxuriating in the heat Extended in a feline dream
I have no image to illustrate this haiku
Dysfunctional Family Artifice and lies Tangled in family ties Words are out of place
A metaphor poem
A poem is born Words drip, puddles form Concentric ripples in which A poem is born ~ Rivulets break free Liquid arrangement marking The topography ~ Words and images Merge in an effervescent Stream of consciousness ~ In the flow of words Meandering path is worn A poem is born
Being not far from the sea…
… I wrote the following sonnet. A Seaside Sonnet I dig my toes in shifting grains of sand, Eroded rock, disintegrated shell, Let shingle drift away from palm of hand To land in foaming lace of ocean’s swell. By increments surrounded by the tide, That ebbs and flows and rises to my thigh, I am […]
I saw something that made me very sad
I have been watching on Channel 4, a British television channel, a programme called Great Canal Journeys, with those wonderful actors Prunella Scales and Timothy West, who have been married a very long time. When not acting on stage or screen, they spent most of their free time on a barge on canals in England […]
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