What day would I go back to?

Posted on September 12, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Creative writing, Life, Poem, Poetry, Thoughts, WorkLeave a comment

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All the days in our lives,

Stretch out at first, then shrink,

Behind us, gone.

No rewind button for life,

No voicemail recording our every word.

Gone, long ago, barely remembered. ..

What day would I go back to?

To hear parents voices again, and tell them

How much I loved them?

Or the first day at school, tell myself not to be so shy?

Trying to make perfume from rose petals as a child

Or older, wiser, learning to drive.

Time travel is a one way street, into the future.

If I could go back I would be pleased to meet you again.

Maybe visit a few less railways,

And see the sea a few more times.

Go back to holidays in Devon.

If I could go back I would say,

Don’t take that awful job,

Stay safe and well.

Don’t waste your life for a pay packet,

Let’s live and love.

Kitty cats

Posted on September 10, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cats, Doodles, Drawing, PoetryLeave a comment

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Kitty little, kitty life,

Kitty food, kitty moods,

Cat paws, cat whiskers,

Cat nose, cat eyes.

Moggie purrs, Moggie snores,

Moggie paws, moggie ears,

Feline mind, feline fine,

Feline playing, feline leaps

Felix chase, Felix eat,

Felix fly, Felix fur…

Cats at home, cats in the garden,

cats up trees, cats chase toys.

Beautiful, soft, fluffy and fierce,

Cats are my friends for life….

Chameleon

Posted on September 9, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Animals, Bad drawing!, Blogging, Fun, Humour, PoetryLeave a comment

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Oh Chameleon,

How do I draw you?

You are Camouflaged in camouflage !

You hide in plain site

Like an octopus hides itself

Or a wobbigong shark,

Or a squid…..

Oh Chameleon

Your tongue is so long,

Like a limpet catching prey,

As long as a woodpeckers tongue

wrapped round its brain?

Or an anteaters snout?

I don’t know,

Because I can’t see you,

Hide in plain sight

Out of sight.

That’s your trick

Sneaky……

Twins

Posted on September 8, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Creative writing, Digital art, Digital doodles, Poetry, TwinLeave a comment

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Topsy Turvey,

Twins delight,

Equal and separate,

Day and night.

Each a mirror of the other,

Turned around

And upside down,

Genes and cells

Devise new life,

Twinned and linked,

Try as they might,

To be seperate

To be free,

Each one connected,

You and me.

Love, locked shut

Posted on September 7, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Love, Melancholy, Photography, Poetry, WritingLeave a comment

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You shackled my heart,

Love, locked shut,

You closed the gate and threw away the key.

Your love rusted away,

Stopping the blood,

Iron filings instead of red corpuscles…

Bitter cold rain blended with tears,

No love here,

No more love, no more light,

Fastened in and imprisoned,

The dove turned to stone.

Take flight through one tiny gap.

Find new love,

Unbarred.

Photowalking

Posted on September 6, 2018September 6, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Burslem, Derelict, Document, History, Industrial archaeology, Photography, Poetry, Stoke-on trent1 Comment

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In 2015 I went on a photo walk organised by a friend round a local town called Burslem. The town is quite run down in places, but thats what made it interesting. Neglect sharpens architecture. Photos taken on an old vodaphone.

Green wood

Red sign,

Green door ,

Blue door,

Bricks by glass,

Breeze blocks behind window,

Rust and wood,

Blackberries colonise

With ease.

Document these,

Please.

Sky, trapped.

Posted on September 5, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Bricks, Creative writing, Digital photographs, Photography, Poetry, Sky, Stoke-on trent, Tiles, WallsLeave a comment

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Your sky is trapped up high,

Below the stars you spy

Cerulean blues,

Ultramarine hues.

Tiles and bricks embrace

a pale blue face,

Reflecting windows catch the rays

of sunlight dappling through leaves.

No clouds can dampen your topaz sight.

slow shading to darkest night.

Trapped blue, without rain,

tomorrow shine out again.

summer flavours

Posted on September 3, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Flowers, Fruit, Life, Poetry, Summer, WritingLeave a comment

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Summer and its flavours,

Crisp and crunchy flowers,

Take us through the hours,

of summer bright and light.

Hot and tasty bowers,

Nasturtium flowers are sour,

But sweet plums ripen here

In the shining Sun.

Before the ripe tomatoes,

Before the mellow mists,

Before the damp of Autumn,

Summer gives its gifts.

Sunshine and wild showers

Heat for many hours

Summer cooks its fruit,

Raspberries and pears.

Oranges and almonds

Appear on our tables

Strawberries of fable

Melt with mint and cream.

Plums and pomegranates

Begonias and daisies,

Lobelia and lemons,

Summer coloured sweet.

Now come the dark days,

Shorter every hour

Equinox is coming

Day will turn to night.

Never lose the summer

Keep it in your mind.

Smell and taste its wonders

Soon to burst again.

I love the summer,

I love the light,

I hate the winter,

Brings on dark and night.

Awake

Posted on August 30, 2018August 30, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Awake, Dream, Insomnia, Poetry, Sleep, WokeLeave a comment

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Darn it I’m awake again,

3 hours sleep so far,

Woken by an urge to do,

What nature calls me to.

Damn it I’m awake again

Before the birds first call,

Very dark turns slightly light,

Now sleep is hit by blight.

Drat it I’m awake too much,

At night I barely sleep

Yet in the bright arousing day,

My mind slips far away.

So let me sleep an hour more,

Give me that much ease,

Don’t let me stay awake at night,

But let my dreams take flight.

Goodnight..

Goodnight..

Good night….zzzzz

Spiralling

Posted on August 29, 2018August 29, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Fun, Humour, Patterns, Poetry, SpiralLeave a comment

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S p i r a g l n l i

o u t o f c . . o . . n . t l r o

I love spirals,

Twirling round and far,

Spiral buns and spiral suns

And spiral galaxies.

I love

Spirals…..

Twisting round

My tongue… making

Tornadoes . .

And hurricanes . .

Fly around .

The land.