Category: Journal
My daily journal: comments, thoughts and poetry on daily events.
Joni Mitchell interviewed by Morrissey from 1996
This morning I came across an interview with a journalist who was also a friend of Joni’s; this led me to looking at other videos with Joni Mitchell on YouTube and I found this interview with Morrisey. Now I have adored Joni Mitchell, her music, lyrics (poetry) and painting since I was fourteen years old […]
Cats and friends
Haiku to my Cats Jewel-eyed felines, Haughty stalkers, yowl and purr, Gently knead my heart. Yesterday morning, after staying out all night, Tosca, the older of our two cats and mother of Luna, sat on the garden-waste bin and shivered. My husband spotted the shivering first and alerted me to it; he was concerned. He […]
Library Thoughts
A library is A room or building Full of books And people Borrowing and reading books The service is libre Free You are at liberty To borrow and read books From librarians Liberal people Tolerant of those Who borrow and read books They are there to liberate The imagination The thoughts The words Contained in […]
Rejection Haiku
A shadow stamped on The spark of my creative Soul – it did not die. Yesterday was one of those Mondays that start well and then slide away from you. The early morning alphabet acrostic poem gave me a feeling of accomplishment. Later in the morning I went to the local library, where I am a […]
Flexing my creative muscles
Inspired by yesterday’s post from businessinrhyme, I wrote the following poem, where each starting letter of a line is a consecutive letter of the alphabet, from A to Z, a form of acrostic. It was a good exercise for flexing my creative muscles before writing the first draft of Chapter 8 of The Haunted Tide. […]
If Only Game
Following the instructions on the item I re-posted earlier this morning, I thought I would try it out: Place the word ‘only’ anywhere in the sentence: ‘She told him that she loved him.’ Only she told him that she loved him. She only told him that she loved him. She told only him that she […]
Moon Watching
Late last night I looked out of the small window in our back door and was amazed that the magnificent moon of Thursday and Friday hadn’t waned – it was just mistier. So I wrote the following poem. I’ve included a copy on the page with the poem Once in a Blue Moon. Watching the […]
Sleep Interrupted and Rilke’s Panther
After a fitful night I got up and wrote a poem called Sleep Interrupted, which is below and on a page of its own. Sleep interrupted Leap into the void of slumber Fall down the rabbit hole Slip through scudding cumuli Descend into docile dreams Or crash through thunderclouds Into noxious night terrors Run barefoot […]
Development of the mini golf scene
I have just finished writing some more of the mini golf scene and it now looks like this: ‘We didn’t let the thought of Rosie spoil our fun. Mr Grant let us out and drove off on shop business, promising he’d be back in a couple of hours. He said he would park up and […]
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