Just playing with filters
Cats almost fade
Like lighting for a play
A theatrical act.
Or are they going to play games
Chase each other
Into the shadows
Curl up and sleep
Settle down?
Blue for calm
Blue for peace.
Blue cats
Tag: Poetry
Watching
The world watches
ICE tendrils grip my heart
I could never visit this place
Antipathy to dictatorship
Not allowed now.
Colour matters
And causes fear and loathing.
Even the first settlers are abused.
Arrived before Europeans
And yet told to leave?
How many generations
Before you are allowed to stay?
All Glory to the Presiclown…?
No way.
Twinkle
I say hello to him every day
His eyes twinkle and smile
He was my green man
Now sadly gone.
Cricket
Have you heard of cricket?
It’s a long game…
Two teams hit a ball.
Try to knock it over the boundary.
Two players run between stumps
On the playing surface
Between the two wickets.
A bowler bowls a ball fast or slow
Seamers, googlies, bouncers, catches.
The bowler tries to hit the wicket
Two short bales lie on top of three stumps.
That’s the wicket.
Hit the bales and knock them off?
Or knock over the stumps
Player is out.
11 players to a side
Two play
10 field
1 bowls
Collect runs to win.
1 point running between stumps
4 if the ball rolls to boundaries.
6 if the ball flies out over the boundary.
That’s cricket in a nutshell..
Highest score wins
Don’t get your leg before wicket…
It’s a very big nutshell…
Doom scrolling
I keep picking my phone up
Looking at the screen
A blip of endorphins?
Another look…
Gradually it builds
More reading
More reposting
Soon I’m overwhelmed
So much sadness, evil,
No compassion.
It hurts
Stop
Now
!!!
Esther Chiltons weekly word prompt
Tests……..a short poem….
Tested to destruction
But you keep going
Ploughing on into the future
Maximum effort to pass
Even by one point.
Tested for healthiness
Bounced and bumped and pushed
Given medicine that may transform
Be a “cure”
Test positive, or negative?
The result depends
On interpretations
May you all pass.
Tired
I woke up aching,
My shoulder hurt
My neck is tight
Need to relax
Only 4 hours
Of sleepless
Discomfort.
Decaff helped
Pain killers too.
Now dozing
Tired
Might nap
I need a hug
Ugh!
I miss the sea
I see the sea and wish
I could be there to see it.
Sending postcards to
Wish you were there
Friends and family
When will I go back?
It’s not far away in distance
But it is in time
I don’t know if I can go now.
I lost my confidence
Don’t feel safe
Travelling the distance….
The tide is out for me.
Morning Cat
He greets me sometimes
with purrs
Mornings in the sun
Have a wash
Finding that comfy space
But sometimes?
He sleeps on a stair tread
Curled up happily
Danger to footsteps
I can avoid
But he’s too cute
To criticise!
Abstract ‘grain’
If all the bees were gone
There’d be no flowers
So no fruit, no vegetables
No more blossom.
We could still have wind blown pollen
So grain would be possible?
Maybe….
Not much choice
Porridge or bread?
Let’s save our bees
And pollinating insects
We need them.
Mallaband-Brown 