The Inkwell#SoCs #Cave #Underground
I’ve never been a pirate
or had thoughts of being a caveman
but someone before me thought
it would be great to trade
minerals or metals – they found in their home
for some meat, or berries or something else
the shiniest stones cost the buyer more fruit
as the seller spent days polishing them
by the light of his twinkling stones
#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
#CYW #Copper
Could this element
Out of all of those
Perched on the Periodic Table, be the most useful ?
Pink orange in colour – the metal gives the colour a name
Expect to see pans and pots, formed from it
Resident in kitchens up and down the land
#Octpowrimo #Brokenpieces
Imperial War Museum North, Manchester UK (via the Inkwell), 22nd October 2019
How does someone express the act of war ?
take you through a hundred years
and tell that tale – that no one else can tell anymore.
The man with a vision
took a thing for brewing his cuppa
and changed it into something – iconic
Smashed with a hammer
Earth air and water
came together and reformed
Falling at the side of a waterway
painted by a painter
who’s centre stood next door
And in the evening sunlight
the air shard shone as shimmering light
cascaded off its solid steel
Morning beckons
and the tales from the shards
can be heard across town
from the tales within.
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
Bronze it may not be, but it can bang out a tune
Resonating a sound that travels up and down the land
As great winds travel through moulded instruments
Some would call it a bit of a live wire with its sound, but
Spark like some other metals ? its remote.
You’ll see its yellow tones on railways and industrial sites for that very reason
#Coloryourworld #cyw #silver #metallic
Some say they prefer it to Gold
it’s the way the
light falls on it you see
venerated by wise men and pirates alike
everyone knows – this precious metal – is secure in its place
revered by every smith that works it and every miner that hews it from the ground
#coloryourworld #antique-brass #cyw
At times you could mistake it for gold
with it’s off yellow patina
Decorating houses 🏡 with things from time gone by
But it’s much more valuable than that
To each wooden door 🚪 its castings and shapes
Bring a smile to those who are greeted by it
As younger successors buckle bridles and shoes
And animals awake their owners
As they knock on front doors around the land
#coloryourworld #cyw #copper #poetry #elements
Colour of a metal,
elementally – you’re not precious, but vital nonetheless
some would call you pink in colour
whilst others – nearer orange after time
collected by kids in schooldays attire
used by workmen in piping and wire
seen around , up and down
every house in the land
transporting utilities as vessels
from their works to home
Detroit Bridge, Erie Basin, Salford Quays
My entry for the “Look up” Photo Challenge
Picked it for the Red, White and Blue of the Steels in the bridge – as well as that wonderful blue you get of a Salford City Morning.
Could call it a little abstract on my part – but I like the way it makes shapes out of the morning sky.
