#FOWC
Pull up a chair, take in a show
As you watch a tale, read to little ones at
Night-time,
There’s a range of characters
On the stage, in bright coloured attire
Making Mirth , for your entertainment
If you’re lucky – they’ll be a
Musical number or maybe magic tricks and
Everyone enjoys the antics of the panto animals
Salford, 18th may 2017
Mr Milnes tale , captured perfectly
In a moment
Notes of colour , delicately transferred onto
It’s material base
As models go, it sings the
Tale of the Hundred Acre Wood, in wonderful wonder
Uniquely created for a special store,
Reds through to Violets bring characters to life
Exceptional.
Percolate
Born in the Sun
Saved from Birds – Red Blue and Yellow
The humble little coffee bean
is a hardy fellow
Grown in the warmth
of a plantation
with 50,000,000
brothers and sisters
picked from its parent
it travels for miles
travelling in bags
with no room to smile
asked to improve
the heated aqua
and roasted within
an inch of its life
Life force captured
in three sizes of cup
and then the final insult
the drop of milk and sugar
Ancient
by B.F. Kirkham
Salford, 20th October 2016
Among the Modern tower blocks
and chic café quarters
the old bricks tell tales
of the city history
Listen very carefully,
and beyond the sounds
of modern cars
different wheels are turning
Steam whistles pipe
as the engine wheels turn
and locos roll on
like it was yesterday
Aircraft await
their signal to move
ready to go
with a simple jump
Whilst across the road
Legions Amass by Roman Bricks
Preparing to March
Down Liverpool Road
And Young Glass buildings
Smile in the night
Breaking the silence with juvenile quips
“Hey Grandad….You’re Ancient!”
In response to the prompt
My bookshelf is ever evolving,
Fiction, Comedy, Drama
And a whole host of autobiographies from celebrities far and wide.
But alongside these, recently, have come familiar tales from my childhood.
Long john Silver shares a space with Paddington Bear and Winnie the Pooh. The Riverbank tales of Kenneth Graham have evolved thanks to the English Writer, William Horswood and more recently Douglas Adams Arthur Dent has shared a bench with the likes of Rincewind, Angua and Detritus of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
I’ve read the Arthur Ransome tale of the Walker Children in their boat on the English Lakes, Swallows and Amazons , a number of times. The First time being at High school. It tells the tale of their first adventure out at water on their boat, the swallow and their experiences of taking a boat out for the first time. You could say i caught the bug for exploring after reading this book – exploring the land and sea with the Scouts and Ocean Youth Club some time after.
