Marginalia in Poetry Anthology
Marginalia in Poetry Anthology (first line of ‘Ode to Autumn’ by Keats underlined ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’) I love this line it takes my breath away every time I read it. New like the golden pears fallen in the damp grass their undersides cratered by happy slugs and wasps.
Gran’s shopping list
BREAD, (from the shelf behind the counter; wound in a single sheet of white tissue paper by working hands; warm to the touch as I held it skipping all the way; to its place centre table; to be unwrapped by the hands I trusted to be there for ever; to be sliced to the same […]
Good idea at the time
One day late and the formatting has gone awol. But close enough. GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME As an expression of our testimonies to equality and simplicity, Friends should adopt the use of plain gravestones in any burial grounds. Quaker Faith &Practice 14.34 In Loving Memory […]
Beachcomber
Beachcomber Lying awake at dawn, suddenly think of her for the first time in years, remembering the times we shared together. Message in a bottle, amongst the flotsam washed up in my mind as it wanders the foreshore in the early morning light.
Drift
Drift We rescued it from twists of blue string and orange net. It was as long as an arm and as pale as the fog cramped sky. We laughed as we wrote our hieroglyphics. Your name, my name, expansive and gigantic. We ran like horses churning up wet sand. The pen now a lance as […]
Day 1. Leaving a note
Please use these StaPoWriMo prompts in any way you wish… breaking the rules is encouraged! We’ve all scribbled notes – on the back of an envelope, on a sheet torn from a notepad, on a napkin, on the beach with a stick… Here’s ‘Lunchbox love note’ by Kenn Nesbitt: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176554 Leaving a note. […]