The Inkwell

from inkdrop – poetry, places and events

Category: Poetry

  • Big Marble

    #simply6minutes “He Seems to like it” the creatures from another world said to one another as the little creature in the jar played happily with his new toy smiling at the swirling patterns and noisy crackling noises coming from his blue ball the little creatures on the surface living on the blue ball didn’t know…

  • Teacakes

    #Toast #Toasted #Buttered #Raisins #Breakfast Summat tasty for Breakfast – full of fruit – Perfect with tea or coffee

  • Canalside Life

    #WDYS It winds its way through the place you call your home bringing you nature water residents pass along saying hello with occasional quacks navigators pass down the flow of waterway on way to next point and birds waddle on chasing passing boats on way to the next lock gate

  • Optimism

    #photochallenge #Mindlovemisery’sMenagerie.#MLMM I do like someone with a sense of optimism in the cold and dark of winter with santa having made his way home someone in the department store is bringing a spot of colour to the wind, rain and snow its got me thinking of sandcastles and ice lollies off the promenade when…

  • making the medicine go down

    #socs #spoonful how did that song go in Mary poppins? just a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down? if readers don’t mind can I beg to differ…. childhood suspensions had some really weird flavours i didn’t mind the mint ones, but it seems the chemist was having a throwback to Victoriana…. licorice ,…

  • Vic

    My first “Home” Computer Power block like a block of Iron and a Gizmo to use the home telly for a monitor Programs sourced from electrical stores and magazines, and occasionally a book or two while those masters of machine code provided them on tape read by its own tape recorder took a while to…

  • Closed

    #writeclub #everywheres shut Strange how the high street , seems unusually quiet there’s nothing seemingly happening up at the big shops, particularly at the out-of-town place Surprised ? perhaps but having the staff having the day off is obvious during a public holiday – the one’s open ? Manned by Managers. So it’s no surprise…

  • mask

    #fowc #mask what are you hiding from ? behind that impression you want everyone to see it might give you an air of illusion a mysterious edge even popularity but it’s not who you really are stop the masquerade I want to know, the real you

  • An Almighty Fiddle

    It was a bad idea Notifying your nephew, you could Take part in a virtual sports match Especially when you saw his Avatar React the way it did Floating in the air for what seemed an age Elevated a thought that something fishy was on Noted : his ability to hop over your team Code…

  • coconut ice

    #sweet creamy layers of coconut often flavoured with other yummy flavours combined by sticky, gooey stuff on holidays you’ll find it in shop windows, where navigating kiddies have their noses pressed , usually on the outside of the glass tasty treat to be enjoyed indoors or out crafted by the confectioner who’s exceptionally talented