The Inkwell

from inkdrop – poetry, places and events

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Born and Bred in Salford, England – I live a short distance from Old Trafford – Home to Manchester United Football Club. I volunteer at Sale Harriers athletic club and at Imperial War Museum North – where i help as a guide to visitors in the galleries. A blogger, photographer, volunteer and occasional writer.

Category: Learning

  • Primary

    Primary

    #Fowc #Primary Places where the little uns, fresh out of nursery Receive an education In the three Rs Most parents will smile at this As two of the three things don’t begin with an R, but Reactions only hit home later on – having moved up a Year or two

  • Plant in a bottle

    Plant in a bottle

    #Napowrimo #Nature #Writeclub Grown from a seed and given room to play the small plant is growing up tall teachers check daily and give it a feed watered by the schoolchildren as part of their day and sitting by a window where the sun shines bright they wonder to give the gardener a call to…

  • Rainbow Dalmatian

    #Poetry #Animal #Dog #Dalmatian #Colour Pongos perfect pirouette in the artist’s studio provided the students there learning, with perfectly posed picture material if you thought about it – it was not so much shades of grey but great explosion of spectral colour – from Primrose yellow to Purple Professors and their charges Pondered how the…

  • The Mind Sharpener

    #writeclub #writing #character The blank sheet of brilliant white paper seemed a heck of a lot smaller with each turn of the pencil as it chewed away You could have said the garbled message at the top of the page with its blunted instruction was clearer by the end of the scribble and with each…

  • Covered

    #Fowc #wdys #Children #Art #Garden #Paint The children of the Kindergarten wanted to play outside the nursery nurses brought out the colours and paper with lots of pride And from these miniature Rembrandts Rainbows formed in colourful arc And giggles and laughter could be heard on the grass as they painted things from the park…

  • Perfectly Imperfect

    #Octpowrimo #Imperfect Little jim came home from school with something that he’d prepared a picture painted on a board of his favourite bear Now unofficial critics would pick holes in the picture he made but it didn’t stop his mum and dad on the wall it was displayed See while he worked on the piece…

  • Listless

    #Octpowrimo #Fowc #Listless It’s Not as if you hadn’t prepared subject matter set out on the table in the middle of the classroom with easels primed for pencil and paint Inside the class they came like a legion of soulless zombies earphones have to be removed to say “Hello” Enthusiasm greeted by yawns and groans…

  • National Poetry Day

    #Nationalpoetryday #UnitedKingdom #Education #Poetry A poem for National Poetry Day in UK – My Octpowrimo is on now too – just click the link.

  • Silent

    #Socs #Silent It’s no wonder the dictionary is so full today letters seem to have tip-toed in without a sound chorus of approval from teachers as characters wrangle their way in like dark knights entering the castle crescent as you write, the letters appear like ghosts but read them out wrong – in class –…

  • Family

    For each family group a sense of togetherness is important Mum and dad teaching the basics of life so In time, when they leave the nest, they’re well prepared to yomp off on their own – not yet though – they need to find their feet.