My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics – Choose a Line. This week Mary has asked us to read the poem “Burning the Old Year” by Naomi Shihab Nye, choose one of the lines & use it as a line in a newly written poem. I have chosen the line: ‘Notes friends tied to the doorknob’. My […]
Tag: Friends
A quote poem for Friday
Books are Cold and Certain Friends ‘Les livres sont des amis froids et sûrs’ Victor Hugo My friends are books: Pages of paper Sewn together, Clothed in distinctive Divergent covers. Colourful volumes, Weighty tomes, Slim softbacks Of poetry and stories Crowd my shelves, Clamour for attention, Welcome me into their worlds. But when I have read […]
I don’t know where this came from…
or perhaps I do. Playground Days I walk through the silent Corridors of my head Where there is no light pollution Just memory intrusion From playground days Memories tattooed Inside my eyelids Of a bench A shredded leaf A leaking pen A fickle friend Who ran off and left me Alone on the bench Image […]
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 […]
writing in north norfolk 