My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Kerry Says ~ Let’s Send a Postcard I have used a postcard sent to my grandmother in 1926 for her 14th birthday. I have a very small collection of cards she had saved and passed on to me. Between the wars Dark days were briefly forgotten […]
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Tightropes and Stilts
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Play It Again, Toads Words Count with Mama Zen: Is your life a circus? If so, which circus performer are you? Tell me about your act . . . in 90 words or less. The long and precarious Tightrope walk Stopped When I left the big […]
Grandmother’s Dragonfly
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Transforming with Nature’s Wonders This happened. Through a haze of tears And buzzing in my ears, I heard the vicar’s voice That told me to rejoice, That you were like a dragonfly, Your dazzling soul emerging when you died. At home, I found an envelope from […]
Corby
My reponse to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Words Count With Mama Zen Massive raven, clever corby dear, your spirit will ever haunt me here, with your jabbing bill and loyal mate, with whom you would quarrel, call and grate. I still hear the rustle of your jet wings and the rattling lid of the […]
Rising from Pavements (a shadorma reprise)
I decided to deconstruct and re-write this poem following racist attacks in which a Polish community centre in London and a Romanian shop in Norwich were vandalised after the vote to leave the EU. I posted the original poem last August, which was inspired by a photograph my husband took on a trip to Wroclav, […]
Drowned Optimism
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Sunday Mini-Challenge: Shallows, Deeply I realise I’m a bit late but I really liked the look of this challenge: to show there still be dragons below and within and around us and find something deep in a shallow world, writing deeply in a shallow space—using little, saying […]
And is there news?
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Flash 55 PLUS! Where the challenge is to write a piece of poetry or prose in precisely 55 WORDS. The PLUS! is an invitation to reflect on the Battle of the Somme. They staggered across no-man’s land, Tattered remnants Returning to mud-filled trenches After shifting and ducking bullets […]
A Walk In the Wild Garden
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Weeds in the Garden Since spring, blackbirds have been singing At dawn and dusk, squabbling and serenading; Exhausted now, the garden is quite still, Except for occasional echoes of a silvery trill. Underfoot the earth is soaked, In my garden trees and shrubs are cloaked With […]
Death and Life
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads the sisters Death and Night ~ Micro Poetry Gazing with malicious grin The Grim Reaper comes harvesting Generations of the never-ending Circle of life. Death may swipe Infant innocence or guilt aghast, But humanity eludes his grasp. On a bright bed of flowers, Eve, the source […]
Silent Love
I wrote this poem for the Poetry Society’s Stanza Poetry Competition and then remembered that I’m not a Stanza member – so I thought I’d share it with you on Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Tuesday Platform. She sang her love into a bell-jar And replaced the robust dumbing bung, Observing the golden silence Of […]
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