Salford, 15th September
#CYW #BurntSienna
I recall a leather chair
the smell of it as I sat in it in the morning
it’s sound as I got my back into its folds
it squeaked – like a mouse looking for food
Looking out beyond the glass
in a warm seat
looking out for snowmen
beyond the garden fence
Sitting there quietly
watching the snowflakes
fall to the ground
whilst warming my hands on a hot mug
Salford 28th August 2019
#cyw #brickred #salford
I remember those streets,
the houses and walls
constructed from something
from down in the ground
Fired earth formed into an oblong
and fashioned into spaces
places, to cook, wash, read, and rest
for those living there – the best
And they were Not all uniform –
not all the same shade
some hidden round airbricks
the ones that just made grade
But from down the road
Their colours stood proud
as this orange / brick red
sang through northern streets loud
#CYW #Blue-Violet #Colours
Tuesday 13th August 2019
Some say this flower
Has its own unique place in the flowerbed
As it’s not blue, or violet – and please
Do Not call it Purple – there’s far too much blue in
Each of its petals
Some call it Violet-blue, but gardeners know it as Blue-Violet
#CYW #Bluegreen
Tuesday 6th August 2019
By the time we reached the Island
lagoons – of blue green came into view
under these waters – fish and turtles
enjoying a paddle in the waters
glassy waters lapping up against the shore
resting in crevices of resident rocks
each one giving a home to
eager young hermit crabs…moving there
next to the sea, but away from the tide
#Coloryourworld #Cyw #Beaver
Behind that pile of logs
Expect to find
A master dam builder
Versatile in river control
Examining each branch, log and twig, before laying them over the
River Bank, to create his construction
#Freedomofexpression #Art
A response to the latest challenge from Iscriblrs Freedom of expression series
(and yes – I will be getting arty with his one!)
A pencil and paper – the start of the process
Composing where the individual flowers went
Encapsulating the sandstone sundial at its heart
Transferred to hardened plastic
And painted in translucent paint
The final result ? A stained window without glass –
Exceptional
Like this one ? feel free to check out Reflection
Salford, 9th March 2019
A patch of earth on some barren land
Was turned over, fed and watered
Earth dug up in places on
Seeds or bulbs planted
Over the next few months, the process continued – and
Moments passed – until the arrival of a green leaf popping out of the ground
Expect rainbows of colour over the next few weeks.
12th February 2019
12th February 2019
Take your pick…colours of the rainbow await
Red, Green, Yellow, Gold and Blue (if you can get it)
no need for CD-R pens, the computer has done the marking for you
and its much neater than a scribble
so instead of you flipping the CD for a title
you know from the pic you took – its on the Disc!
“Patterns”
Chapel Street, Salford 2018
They reclaimed the bricks and numbered each one
as the diggers did their thing
the builders saving a theatre wall
you could almost hear them sing
artwork by the cathedral doors
in colours you’d never expected before
bright neon on the way to town
spread across bricks orange/brown
numbers alive – a wonderful dream
a sight like Neapolitan ice – cream
and for four days – the bricks were talk of the town
before the builders tore them back down
