The Inkwell#fowc #wait
Time passes slowly
As you sit waiting for the train
To come rolling down the track
And into the station
Timetable isn’t friendly
It’s saying it’s on its way
So to distract you from the empty arrival
Your sat with your radio on play
And each tick that follows tock
Seems to be on a lock
As you wait for whoever forlorn
Listening out for the diesel trains horn
Salford, 22nd January 2020
#fowc #refuse
Two definitions for this word fandango’s provided – so I cobbled them together in this
feel free to comment.
Refusing to recycle your rubbish ?
expect a spot of bother
for if you don’t follow the bin men’s advice
until you do so, the bin will just
sit there – full to the brim of stuff that should be turned into something else
expect an extra invoice when they send a bigger rubbish truck!
#Promptuarium
These canals were once full
Boats and ships travelled up and down
Collecting Goods and cargo
But somewhere,
where the canal met the river
a grown up scout thought he’d have some fun
He created a dam,
by a campsite ridge
and the water stopped at the spot
Interested Beavers
Marvelled at the scouts work
as the stream dried up beyond it
Fish fled for safer spots
as the water stopped flowing
and stayed behind the wall
And sea birds stood perplexed
wandering why the water had simply
disappeared
Salford, 19th January 2020
#weather #fog
Christmas and New Year is over, but winters still here
A patchwork of heavy cloud, lies low – hiding church spires
Until it lifts – it’s difficult to get anywhere
Gravitating over roads and field alike
Hard to make out the silhouettes in the Pea Soup
The landmarks fizzle out the further they’re away
#coloryourworld #CYW #Fern
An acrostic for the Fern Colour on Tourmalines Coloryourworld challenge
Flowing fronds of green
each one coming from a central point
reminding me of an octopus or squid –
not squelchy, but just as many arms!
Part – time juicer of oranges
Reels out stories and photos for
England’s tabloid press – so he can
Serve up iced drinks to the masses on
Summer weekends
Zingy is how you might call it
each pore of the citrus fruits skin
holds a little bit inside
and as your figures begin to split
the fruit’s smell contained therein
escaping into the room
where it does reside
enhancing the flavour into which you’ve just bit
Salford 30th March 2019
#freedomofexpression #iscriblr #mystery
a response to iscriblrs wonderful mystery challenge…enjoy.
A strange thing happened the other night
Under the cover of dark
Something with a sweet tooth paid us a call
He snook into the kitchen, without giving us a fright
And sitting down at my birthday cake, he did park
Having eaten his slice, he went out the door
Lighting up the kitchen , as he passed by the walls
And leaving a trail of cake crumbs on the floor
Salford, 21st December 2018
Melanie looked at the living room carpet
Enveloped by four soggy footprints
Local law enforcement scoured the area, but
Terrible thing was … they couldn’t find the culprits
Even the footprints outside could be found , it’s like they
Disappeared in the snow ❄️
Salford, 14th November 2018
Memories of a mate, brought back in an instant
A blast from the past, delivered with a click
Noted – you’ve not talked for a while
Changes in address do that
Hoping – they remember your name
Expectations raised as they recognise your face
Someone should have said – its the passing of time
Talk about the old days, in a familiar place
Engaging about others
Round a table with Tea and cake
IWM Duxford , Cambridge, 5/6/2017
For a brief moment today,
looking around the hangar in Cambridge
I got to see the marvels of flight first hand
Great planes – from early pioneers to new planes and even spaceflight
Hoped to see something special – and I wasn’t disappointed
Tomorrow – i’ll take a look at what I captured
Salford, 30th March 2020
#fowc #tickle #mrmen
The character from a favourite children’s book
Instantly bringing laughter to
Children and adults alike
Keeping them giggling
Like there’s no tomorrow
Expect cheerful sounds filling the room
#fowc #belligerent
Statesmen like ? hardly
sat by his plinth, like
someone had confiscated his toy basket
all they wanted, was the facts
all they got was bluster to the max
as the virus spreaded, and reacts
reports he wasn’t listening to
positions he stuck himself like glue
his collegues wandering what to do ?
Till one day he took to bed,
and had to listen to what the doctors said,
deputy took charge, and up to bed, he fled.
Salford, Saturday 28th March 2020
For one saturday only – a reblog…..I would have taken the Nikon out to see if i could spot the odd one of these mooching round the city parks flowers but with the global bug lockdown….i’m sharing this one from last year.
#coloryourworld #cyw #inchworm
In time – you’ll become a wonderful thing
Noted for the wonderful patterns on your wing
Caterpillar family – small you may be
Hoping to sleep in the best of the tree
When you are little – you cannot be seen
Out eating the leaves of the trees whilst you’re green
Remaining on trees till you start to take flight
Making small kids smile from morning through night
Salford, March 28th 2020
#Socs #Besideme
Saturday morning.
Its a couple of days into the government lockdown in the UK for this blooming bug that’s hitting the globe like a whirlwind
and for the stream of conciousness challenge – i’ve been asked whats beside me,
I’m looking down at the table – the book i was reading yesterday is still there, a compilation of work from some fine amateur writers, who entered the great British write off for 2015 – flipping through the index – i find i appear just before half way with a short piece i wrote during a holiday at that time
My watercolour pad is just in reach, doodles and scribbles brought to life in glorious technicolor. For some strange reason, there’s an awful lot of drawings of fish – there is a reason for that folks – i’d been creating my own stencils the night before and one of them was …. lo and behold a fish.
Flipping through the watercolours, there’s a picture of a tree….haven’t come up with a title for it yet – so i’m going to pinch a title for it – “What the kids really wanted”
#Fowc #Amount
I remember when i was little
you could get a whole load of jelly beans
for a single silver coin
but as i got bigger
while the rainbows remained the same
that silver coin lost its sheen
as the silver coin you handed over
got you half the bag you got a year before
#fowc #Confession
Cleansing of
Oral admissions
Noted by the angels
For the day of judgement
Expressions of remorse
Said in private but always
Said honestly and in receipt of penance
In an attempt to show an element
Of contrition for the time we
Next meet our maker
#writephoto #wistful
She returned to the moor
every hill a passing memory
veils of tears ran down her face
each time she remembered the angry rant
now she had thrown the ring back at him
she was returning to her cottage – in pieces
Salford. 26th March 2020
In the time’s of this nasty virus
It’s very good to know
Mother nature’s sent out a message
and the birds have said hello
For while we’ve been in isolation
our friends with their wings have flown by
to give us some pleasant distraction
from the news that’s been catching our eye
Each day they’ve come out from their nests
where nearby trees they’ve had their rest
and flew around in a bit of a show
before off to their nests they would go
Sat on a roof or a nearby tree
landing in bird baths happy as can be
and enjoying the garden all for free
taking home worms for their tea.
#fowc #meticulous
Attention to detail
Is important when you are doing things
Scribbling down the wrong location
Can land you in a bucket of hot water
If you’re heading for Liverpool
But end up in Llandudno
#fowc #dependent
Little set of fingers
clutching on to your big chunky finger
they’ll rely on you through schools, tantrums, weddings and all
seeing you as the one who’s big and tall
till one day the table is turned
and they find they have to apply what from you they’ve learned
