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Category Archives: natural world
The Young Yew
In benign spring sunshine the field waits, as all fields are waiting, for the burst of bud and spurt of blade to finally wake after the long winter. Dotted about are signs of scattered feed for vanished ponies. An abandoned bucket, its garish … Continue reading
Posted in death, garden, melancholy, natural world, Uncategorized
Tagged Nature, Poisonous Yew, Spring
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A Tête-à-Tête under a pearl sky
In the words of Shelley: “The cold earth slept below; Above the cold sky shone…” … and flowering long before its time, this little narcissus. Damp and bedraggled it may be but light from its petals shines out. Crouched beneath a bare, … Continue reading
Posted in birds, daily life, Daily observations, dogs, garden, inspiration, natural world, Uncategorized
Tagged dogs, garden, natural world, writer, writing
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Drizzle
I love rain – real horizontal rain, but drizzle! Drizzle by contrast is grey and invasive. It creeps in and dampens your hair and your shoulders before you even realise its raining at all. It lurks in the grey air … Continue reading
Posted in autumn, colours, daily life, garden, health and well being, inspiration, lifestyle, natural world, Uncategorized, water, weather
Tagged autumn, garden, lifestyle, plants, Rain, weather
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Feedback is king
This year, in company with many other people, I sent Christmas cards that I had made myself and far fewer than ever before. I also cut back drastically on the number and size of the presents I gave. As a … Continue reading
New Year – new adventure
Any regular readers of this blog may remember that just over a year ago, together with Jill, a friend who is also a writer and painter, I embarked on a career as a crafter at the local Country Market with the aim … Continue reading
Posted in Art Gallery, artist, artists, blogs, Book selling, Country Market, natural world, Paragram, performance poetry, performing your writing, poet, poetry, Poetry workshops, poets, Surrey, Uncategorized, Woking, word painting, Words in the landscape, writer, writing
Tagged Arts, Book, book sales, Chobham, heath in Surrey, Jill, Literature, online sales, Online Writing, poet, poetry, poetry. writer, Postcard, Self publishing, Small press, Surrey, Village life, writer, Writers Resources
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Windy Night!
We woke on Sunday to a blustery morning and the moan of a chainsaw, thought nothing of it and started the day – a cup of tea in bed. The chain saw moaned on! Eventually the sun burned off the remaining … Continue reading
Posted in Family, garden, natural world, Surrey, trees, Uncategorized, winter weather, writer, writing
Tagged Arborist, Bracket fungus, Chainsaw, Fungus, garden, Home, Tree, tree surgeon, trees, winter weather
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Olympic Storyteller – latest challenge
The latest challenge for the BT Olympic Storytellers was to pin down what puts the Great in Great Britain and to describe our greatest team for 2012. My piece was commended….so just off the podium this time! London 2012…the Greatest … Continue reading
Posted in BT Olympic Storyteller, free verse, inspiration, London 2012, natural world, Olympics, poet, poetry, poets, writer, writing
Tagged 2012 Summer Olympics, basketball, BT Olympic Storyteller 2012, GB Team, London, natural world, Olympic Games, Olympic Park, poet, poetry, poetry. writer, team, writer, writing
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Close shave
Exquisite, bold squirrel, cheeks full of acorns, Evades watchful dog I’m no haiku writer, but this begged to be written.
Posted in dogs, natural world, poet, poetry, Uncategorized, writing
Tagged Arts, dogs, poetry. writer
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Improved ‘Warrior’ octain and one more
Thank you Caudia for helping me to sort the octain I wrote for One Stop Poetry’s Monday Form. I have added a syllable to the first/last lines and changed the 5th line to put the internal rhyme in the correct … Continue reading
Posted in natural world, One Stop Poetry, poet, poetry, Uncategorized, writer, writing
Tagged one stop poetry, Online Writing, poetry, Rhyme, Syllable
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Another poem, inspired by a Rosa Frei photo
In this sand I see the world, pattern too large to comprehend, too small to understand, each grain unwittingly playing its part. In this sand I see the world, spilt blood absorbed, often unremarked, storms whipped up to cloud the … Continue reading
Posted in inspiration, natural world, One Stop Poetry, poetry
Tagged A Million Little Pieces, Arts, poetry, Sand
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