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
#FDDA #Sweet #Sponge #Puddings
I do like a sponge pudding
coming to life in the oven
covered in fruity delights
sweet soft pillows of loveliness
and that’s before you get to the custard!
#Writeclub #Popcorn
Confusion reigned among the staff
in the garden centre
Curiously, the conkers they were growing
for selling in pots in the greenhouse
had grown, no sprouted….no rocketed
into something a little more colourful
a little more knobbly and a little more exotic
a lot more tropical and a little less green
i mean – leaves the colours of mixed fruit drops ?
and poking through the glass towards the sky
you couldn’t call them unseen – definately unmuted
as the kids visited every blossom time
picking off popcorn from the branches and petals
#socs #spot
They bought him from the stables
And gave him a grassy plot
A wonderful coloured striped beast
A zebra ? Perhaps not
But the children didn’t seem to mind
This rainbow beast was loving and kind
So each day out they’d make their way
Onto to the grass with their pal they’d play
And what was the name they called their pal ?
Simple….he’s called spot!
#promptuarium
Local poets waxed lyrical about this spot
A place of natural beauty,
Kept clean and tidy, spick and span for
Everyone, to enjoy
Destination – to the North from London
In range of Manchester and Liverpool but
Scotland is also nearby
Take a view from a hilltop
Relax in a lodge and be
inspired by the writers and artists who visited
Cumberland and Westmoreland
There’s plenty to see – and the views are picture perfect
A poem on irritation by inky
A rant on Flat Pack Furniture
I
The planning was meticulous
you bought it from the store
the storage unit of your dreams
that gave space and so much more
It came with an Allen Key
II
Into the empty room you stood
and looked at the jigsaw bits
no standard screws for this job
you have to use what fits
Clue…it came with an Allen Key
III
So you start with pre assembly
wood dowels at each end of the planks
another piece of the puzzle
you are grateful and give thanks
No need for an Allen Key
III
But then the magma bubbles
as you’re looking in the sealed bag of screws
there’s something that you need right now
and you can’t come to terms with the news
Where’s the Allen Key?
IV
It seems that the item needed to fix part A to B
has grown itself some handy wings and decided to flee
what’s annoying is that others you would use instead
do not fit the holes drilled in the screw head.
SO….WHERES THE ALLEN KEY ?
V
Modern day furniture – “so easy to handle”
burning both ends of your patience’s candle
so you hammer the screws to the holes there in three
#Writephoto #Fantasy
For years that place in the middle of the sea was
a folly, a place for the well to do’s to admire from their
nice windows of the lakeside apartments
today, its so much more than this – it’s
a place where your imagination can go mad
somewhere you can land your boat and pitch a tent
you’ll think you’re back to your schooldays – some say its better
An acrostic on the colour orange (or is that the fruit orange)
Of course, you all know this colour – its the colour of the fruit
Red meeting yellow in the paint mixing pot
As the two colours come together – colour of
Navel and Seville
Greet you as it hits the paper – its not just in fruit though
Expect to see it on the spice rack or the soup dish
#Fowc #Juggernaut
Just as you thought the
unstoppable force was too
gigantic to stop in its path
greater forces played a hand
expectations were it would run out of steam
reality was no one would see the mighty excavator getting stuck in the
narrowest of passageways
all down to the drive for more sellable goods
unusually – the crews response – shut down and go home
they may find mother nature has occupied it when they return
#6WSP #Time
Grains of sand, travelling through hourglasses
