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#CYW #Fuschia Floating in the warmth of summer under their pink ballerina dresses – purple petticoats swaying in the gentle breeze colour to brighten up anyone’s day hard to miss – even though they try to be incognito a wonder for visiting birds and bees
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#CYW #Desert #Sand Drifting in over land and sea enveloping everything it passes sand from the sahara travels on the wind easily passing over land and sea resting on roofs, cars and even plants the succulents smile – they’ve seen this before Soil looking more like blackpool than old trafford as grains land on the…
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#fowc #plant 27th November 2019 An acrostic about a plant Perhaps the greatest thing to come out of the ground likes to brighten the garden and the air around it as it recycles the carbon out in the air note – it doesn’t take much applause , for what it does though it does appreciate…
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Bringing a flash of colour from the movement of its wings the sight of them landing on the greens oh what joy it brings like windows of brightness they appear on the green having grown from caterpillars mostly unseen with wings translucent it passes by it brings to the watcher a smile who watches as…
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Salford 12th September 2019
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#Fowc #Dirt Destination – Under the Grass It’s the place where the bulbs and seeds Rest before its time to say hi to the sunshine Treading on it – leaves a mark on it and a mark on you!
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#CYW #Blue-Violet #Colours Tuesday 13th August 2019 Some say this flower Has its own unique place in the flowerbed As it’s not blue, or violet – and please Do Not call it Purple – there’s far too much blue in Each of its petals Some call it Violet-blue, but gardeners know it as Blue-Violet
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Salford, 5th July 2019 A piece of poetry, taken from my repository on Allpoetry.com The rotten apple of the bunch, was saved from sentence of th’bin it was placed inside a plot of soil and kept warm there and in. Now Children wondered – would it grow, with loads of apples there in tow? Dad…
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#Freedomofexpression #Art A response to the latest challenge from Iscriblrs Freedom of expression series (and yes – I will be getting arty with his one!) A pencil and paper – the start of the process Composing where the individual flowers went Encapsulating the sandstone sundial at its heart Transferred to hardened plastic And painted in…
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Salford, 25th March Spring has definitely sprung The rock gardens resident birds Announced it…the acer is in bloom they chirped Rejoicing at the sight of little pink buds They don’t look much at the minute but Eventually, the wind will stop moving the branches and the Red and pink blossoms will start to appear
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