The InkwellI
Bitter, Salty, Sweet or Sour
Sensations landing on your tastebuds
What is that wonderful fruity flavour
It’s on the tip of your tongue
but you haven’t said it yet
II
Raspberry Jacket and Banana Shirt
with trousers and shoes to match
maybe it’s the height of fashion in the magazines
certainly makes you talk of the town on the shopping run
III
Country or Town
Suburbia or out in the sticks?
Cottage, Terrace, Mansion or Shed ?
Choice of Home – is down to you
but it’s not everybody’s cup of tea
Salford, 23rd January 2020
#fowc #clear
Cloudy skies today ? hardly
light from the sun falls down like raindrops
even the sky is a wonderful shade of blue
a warm and bright day
ready for a picnic ? we’re headed for the park
#FOWC #Shadow
A response by inky to Fandango’s One word challenge
Sunshine’s monochrome friend
Heavens Universal to animal, bird, reptile and human
As the sun shines its beams – it appears on the floor
Disappearing when the clouds cover it up
Of course – they disappear
When the sun goes behind – reappearing on a bright moon
4th September 2018
#Beeinthecity #Manchester #Buzz
A poem in honour of those colourful bees currently nesting in my city
The hive will be in Gtr Manchester till 23rd September – it’s well worth a visit.
(for those who haven’t read my #beeinthecity posts – they’re artworks!)
The hive arrived
Home for some bees
With artistic flair
Swarming around
City streets, with a
Hint of colour
Covering the sights
Of the county
North to south
Bringing smiles
From Salford’s quayside
To Manchester’s airport
Salford, 2nd April 2018
Radiant in the dawn of sunset
a candle lights the darkness
dim at first, but getting brighter
illuminating the building with its brothers and sisters
as power goes – it gives a torch a run for its money
not to mention the electricity grid
the fuses die ? – out comes the candles
Salford 16th August 2017
taken by inky like a magpie in summer, and collated for your enjoyment in response to the daily post
1. Diamond backed frog with two coins of the realm
2. The Moon, taken from a Salford Sky at Night
3. Plane in the test flight area of the RAF Museum at Cosford
4. Oldham Museum and Art Gallery – with its glass roof
5 . Coins
6. Pottery at Salford Museum and art Gallery
7. Imperial War Museum North’s Metal “Shattered Earth” – Really Shiny on Summer days
#coloryourworld #neoncarrot #cyw
The latest batch of carrots 🥕
in farmer 👨🌾 Giles field
are the brightest vegetables to be seen
and not easily concealed
for these orange carrots 🥕 are so bright
their tops can be seen in the field at night
he said he got the carrot seed
from a friend from out of town
(who really was from planet 🌎 x
and heading homeward bound)
but whilst the carrots grew on field
at night they were to wildlife revealed
so rabbits 🐰 mice 🐭 and hares all
in farmer Giles field are having a ball…
with the gigantic bright carrots Giles is selling for cash
in cakes, soups and salads and even as mash!
#OutrageousOrange #Coloryourworld #cyw
Outlandish – some call it, zesty – perhaps
Unless you lack the vision for colour – you’ll definitely see it
The fashionistas , look on – a mix of intrigue , happiness and horror
Riots must have taken place in a fruit canning plant
As there’s splashes of bold bright orange all over that dress
Grabbing the eye, definitely – but would you wear it, they ask
Everyone politely claps and smiles nicely
Of course, its the outfit the critics will talk about tomorrow
Until then – the barbed comments remain in their notebooks as
Summers latest trend walks boldly down the catwalk
