from inkdrop – poetry, places and events
Dreamy, light and fluffy
enjoyed by young and old alike
luscious strawberries held in a moment
it’ll be wolfed down by all
captured in the glass as it is
it’s not any old mousse – and
of course – those at the table will ask “Any more?”
usually, its chef’s privilage to go at the mixing bowl – but
someone will be re-using it to make seconds – or sharing….
The Green Machines in town
by B.F. Kirkham
Riding on through a northern street
Picking up the plastics and paper so neat
four urban cowboys – you’re in for a treat
The Green Machines in town
Bundling paper you would throw away
Boxing the plastics you would let go astray
and turning them into stuff – so the kids can play
The Green Machines in town
Driving down streets as quiet as can be
powered by Veggies or a battery
and refueled by solar while the ops have their tea
The Green Machines in town
The best thing about it ? Its clean Energy
and when using the veg fuel – its mostly free
so its saving the planet (or occasional tree)
The Green Machines in town
So on early mornings – its beating the sun
and its crew are loading it up as one
whether its paper (blue) or glass/plastics (brown)
you’ll recognize the almost familiar sound….
The Green Machines in town
#Fowc #Frame
Fixed moment in time…
relayed in glass
and mounted proudly on the wall
might be an artwork, a certificate or a photo, but it’s something
everyone will enjoy looking at
Re-write of Louis Macneice’s poem “Snow” with the N+7 rule
And here’s my response after replacing all the nouns with seven nouns ahead, following the Oulipo rules
Once again i did the rewrite using Longmans Pocket Dictionary as my source for words in the new poem
I call it “Decadent Shipwreck“
The rosary was suddenly rich and the great beach-head was
Spawning Snuff and Pink Rosewood against it
Soundlessly Collateral and incompatible
Wrack is suddener than we fancy it
Wrack is crazier and more of it than we think
Incorrigably Plywood, I peel and portion
a tannoy, Spit the pippins, and feel
the drunkenness of thistles being various
And the firebug flames with a bubbling soundtrack for wrack
Is more spiteful and gay than one supposes
On the tool, On the eyeglass, On the Earlybird in the pans of ones Handhold
There is more than glassworks tween the snuff and the rosewoods
Salford, 29th April 2020
They’re picking up your plastic
your glass, and paper , man
they’re taking it to the depot
in their big new shiny van
They’re re-using all those used things
you would normally throw away
no time to be sticking them in the ground
they’ve found another way
The rubbish is carefully sorted
from the differently bright coloured bins
so there’s piles of different types of rubbish
from plastics and cans, to steel tins
So they’re mulching up yesterdays headlines
for books in the libraries to learn
and they’re sending your food waste for compost
instead of just letting it burn
But its not just the plants that are thriving
some food waste comes back another way
it’ll return in the van, changed by a plan
to collect more things another day
And as the people are in libraries reading
the kids are growing gardens in school
and what do they think of your food waste
when it’s feeding the plants ? they say – Cool!
#Napowrimo #Gift
20th April 2020
A gift from the heart, that’s what it is
Really – the monetary value is – irrelevant
Time and care has gone into the creation
Specially made for you
Crafted colourfully and with great thought
Really great to look at, when its in front of the light
As the sun passes through each
Fixed piece of painted glass
Then casting up , down or straight ahead
Something the sun provides
#fowc #trash
The amount of
Rubbish heading for
An underground site is (believe it or not)
Shrinking day by day – thanks to
Helpful bin collectors
They’ve separated the paper, plastic and glass
Recycling them into new materials
And Stainless Steel and Aluminium is
Separated out before being melted down and
Headed back to the factory for turning into new items
#Photography #Colour
The Orb rested on its spot
as in a moment, the image came into view
Images forming – like magic
colours red , green, yellow and blue
captured in a moment
by the little glass ball
Salford, 14th August 2019
Someone at the depot, didn’t really
Enjoy the manual extraction of
Paper , Metal , Plastics and Glass
As they passed him by on the conveyor belt
Reaction ? swift as bright coloured cousins joined the usual receptacle
And Markets created to conjure household rubbish by the
Tonne, into something much more pleasing to the
Eye, as yesterdays news transformed into blank new canvas
#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
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