The Inkwell

from inkdrop – poetry, places and events

Category: Outdoors

  • Spare

    #Fowc #Spare Sitting in the Garden shed pondering when they will be called up a thought often occurring to the replacement or substitute wheel, often ending up , company for the lawnmower

  • waiting

    #napowrimo #garden #birds up on the roof tiles looking on the space below he sits there waiting eager young small birds hop about their homely nests while he sits there waiting all is quiet below no hoomans appeared meaning no breakfast arrived but listen … is that? a noise on the mat? Coming from human…

  • Early Morning Chatter

    #Napowrimo #conversation #birds #food #wildlife While some humans down tools from the late night shift and others awake with the morning sun beyond the bedroom windows and factory doors there’s a crowd amassing News on the telephone line travels fast round these parts brought from across the blue by our friends from the coast there’s…

  • The Message

    #Napowrimo #Nature #Message the big clouds sent their chums a word to every animal , plant and bird that water supplies would be restored today so they could drink and bathe and play The humans hearing this did frown particularly those who were out of town but the big clouds told them not to fear…

  • Campfire Breakfast

    #napowrimo #scouts #morning #campfire #breakfast Large tin for the morning brew boils away by hot stones while home made bread toasts by the embers with buttery eggy bread simmering in a nearby pan sound of metal plates and cups passed around is broken for a moment as the leader of the camp makes his way…

  • Tale of a Boggart

    #Napowrimo #Legend #Northern #England I don’t know where he came from but he just appeared one day out on the fields of Boggart Hole Clough while the family was out at play He followed at a distance and shouted he just wanted some fun while he chased the ducks and geese about he’d only just…

  • The Landing Spot

    #Napowrimo #Garden #Nature #Birds #Napowrimo #Birds #Feeding #Garden An early morning, one of spring a return to the garden, the sunshine does bring he’s hopped from his perch, where he’s napped in his nest and landed on bird table, where the seeds are the best sunflower seeds and kernels of corn out in the sunshine…

  • #WDYS Out among the grown trees Mother Nature sent Notice to every winged birdie to come back to the greens rejoice ! Spring is here

  • rope bridge

    #memories #fears it hadn’t been the first time I’d taken the dizzy heights but I knew the leaders of scouts wouldn’t see me tumbling crossing the gap of the Irish waters on planks of finest oak sharpened the mind for it was wasn’t the wood I was fearful of but the way the bridge copied…

  • Sliced Bread

    #365writingprompts #slicedbread “The best thing since sliced bread” how about parks and gardens enjoying time outside in green open spaces revelling in the flowers and enjoying a cup of tea and a bun while the sun shines Or perhaps you prefer the coast under a sunshade while you take five enjoying the view dinner transported…