The Inkwell

from inkdrop – poetry, places and events

Category: Acrostic

  • Pumpkin

    #octpowrimo #halloween #jackolantern #pumpkin Pie is cooking in the kitchen under the flame of the gas oven made from the innards of the lantern placed outside the front door that keeps a watch for junior ghosts and ghouls it calls out – knock – if you dare as nice or naughty imps call out “Trick…

  • Pulled Pork

    Piled up high tween two bits o’ barmcake under the bread lid you’ll find summat reet tasty lovingly marinated in a spicy sauce and lavished with salad and onions exceptionally flavoured with paprika and cumin dancing around the pallette with each bit perfection comes with what it’s served with often served with with fries, sometimes…

  • #socs #seven Sat among the top 10 everyone recognises it as the first prime number versed in organising the weeks activity each fifty pence and twenty pence has seven sides not to forget the seven stage athletic event – heptathlon

  • The Wet Stuff

    #Water We need this stuff As it keeps our insides hydrated That’s the same for most habitants of Every sea on the Planet, but they also Rely on it for their breakfasts lunches and teas

  • Awakenings

    #MFFFC #FFFC #Forest #Mornings At the top of the hour waking up, was the big forest trees as the sunbeams hit their leaves with a message “Kids, it’s time to get up” excitedly, they rustled their branches nests moving as they did so – the first, the industrious insects collecting leaves at the bottom of…

  • Hopscotch

    #socs #hop #hopscotch Happy days of children playing games on summer afternoons out on city streets, chalk outlines on the sandstone slabs as the kids play hop and jump – taking care to keep their hot feet in the chalk lines

  • Low bearing fruit

    A response to Crimson’s Creative Challenge #047 | crispina kemp Walking past the stone wall out of the corner of the eye numbers of tasty delicious fruit send a message – “Come and get us” each one of them yell, but the kids will have to wait till they’re ready to fall from the apple…

  • The upside of rain

    #WDYS Summer time might be coming to a close, and poor old kids are longing for more time in ra’s gaze, but autumn comes with its own fun splashing in your wellies in muddy puddles and having a wail of a time with park leaves in the wind

  • Speckled

    #fowc #speckled Spotted, in a nest up above proud parents are tending to their brood excited by the things mum and dad bring them cut off stems with the finest fruits keep the little ones happy as they launch their beaks into blackberry or raspberry ending up in the shell they decided to break out…

  • #sparrows #summer #nature since spring, these popular aviators have made an appearance up and down the road, hunting out the tastiest of treats returning at night to their tree top nests of course, being summer, they’ll dive into watery spots to keep cool