Flowers

Posted on June 26, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colour, Flowers, Garden, Gardening, Joy, Life, Petals, Plants, Poem, Poetry, rhymes, ScentLeave a comment

I want more colour

I want more scent

Flowing green

Petals and sepals

Music in sight

The volume

Set to 11

A rhapsody

Of delight.

2024

Posted on January 11, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Calendar, February, happiness, Hope, leap year, Life, Memory, Poem, Poetry, rhymes4 Comments

Late greeting to 2024’s calendar

You arrived at the start

Of January (not a wonder)

And ended 2023 at last

A year I don’t want to remember

Not a good year for me.

May this year be better and hopeful

A leap year, an extra day

February 29 a blessing

Where happiness might just stay.

Apart from that added adventure

The rest may be simply the same

But hopefully pleasant and gentle

I don’t want 2023 again!

Happy 2024

Posted on December 31, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2024, Happy New Year, Poem, Poetry, rhymes, Star, Sun, Thoughts, wishes4 Comments

Wishing you a good new year

With laughter and full of cheer.

May your days be bright

Lit by the sun’s starlight

Have plenty to eat

Savory and sweet

May your dreams come true

For all of you.

Love and peace to the world

As the new year is unfurled.

As Julian of Norwich wrote so many years ago.

“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.”

Cats sleep..

Posted on January 9, 2023January 9, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Awake, Bad night, Black and white cat, Cat, Cats sleeping, Dawn, Decaff, Insomnia, Poem, Poetry, rhymes, Slumber, Tired, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Late at night

Cats sleep and I can’t

I almost slept

Then a cat crept

Onto the bed

Laid down on my leg

My leg went to sleep

But I didn’t

Shook off the cat

And came and sat

On my armchair

With a cup of decaff

And a cracker with cheese

I’m really not pleased

Cheesed off in fact

I might try and nap

With a cat on my lap

Or go back to bed

As the dawn breaks red

Another night of cat naps fled…

Love poppies

Posted on July 20, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Colours, Favourite, Orange, Poem, Poetry, Poppy, Red, rhymes, White, YellowLeave a comment

Poppies make me smile

They have real style

If I could put them in order

I love white ones with a red border.

I like himalayan blue

I wonder if you do too?

Welsh poppies are yellow

A colour that’s mellow…

Orange from Californian lands

Red sunshine, might grow on sands

But red are my favourite flower

They seem to have a great power.

To me they are iconic

And I’m not being ironic

The colour of Ruby lips

Red blood and rose hips…..

Catkins!

Posted on January 30, 2021February 1, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged catkins, Cold, Freezing, Photo, Poem, Poetry, rhymes, Spring, Time, wind chill, WinterLeave a comment

Blowing a gale

Air full of hail

What do I see?

Catkins on a tree!

Waving and twirling

Snow flakes are curling

Fall to the ground

But all around

Nature awakes

With every breath it takes

Spring comes nearer….

Nothing is clearer!