Category: art
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Clough
When dawn broke on those summer days,four giants were surrounding him,and farmers with their windrow hays.Behind white cotton grass, sky greys,wind keen, the weather’s looking grim.This top could keep you lost for days.And now a kinder choice of place,Hides a water pool with bright rim,it’s downfall fed, high wind back sprays.Thoughts churning in the morning…
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Arch
Reflecting, grandioseglass-paned arch,shuts out slender trees.Clouds disperse.Number 5 replacedrobin’s breast.Still outside he trills in a hedge. An oak tree’s tawnyleaf outlined,is stuck to rough pinksugar card,fixed with latex glue.Wax crayons, make colour stick mencome alive. Sharp pencils scribblewonky lines.Follow straight line rules,tell stories.Mind pictures of old.Sweets and stars,tea biscuits, and milkfor rewards. Make raffia mat,…
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River
Playing by the broad muddy riverside,iron steps ringing, smooth shiny slide.The old powder mill race sleekly glidesto white water power falling, foaming.Past the tea room with outside tablesand daisy-chains arranged on a lawn.Cups and saucers, reading tea-leavesstrawberry jam and cream on scones. Whirling and spinning roundabout world,swinging high and higher into the sky,to leap far…
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Gate
Amidst the morning’s gentle light, Shiny milk churns by the gate, Stand guard, gleaming bright, Their metal forms reflect and radiate. Blocking the rough and sunken lane, They hold their post with stoic grace, Like soldiers standing firm, sustained, Until their mission is fulfilled with pace. These sentinels filled with dairy milk, Endure the wait…
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Sunset
Where is the best place to watch the sunset near you? I live on the brow of a South West facing hill overlooking a wide, tree filled valley so am treated to many spectacular sunsets only a few steps away. Endlessly variable weather brought by Atlantic storms and a wavering Jet Stream with air masses…
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Learn
“It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago I realised that I absolutely love lightly toasted bread. Simultaneously, I also realised that I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost sixty years, and quite unconsciously, I…
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Procrastinate
What are the pros and cons of procrastination? “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both” Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken Strangely I was thinking about a tendency to procrastinate before I looked at the prompt. I have considered it a problem and felt guilty and a need…
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Wish
What language do you wish to could speak? Like Doctor Dolittle in the series of stories by Hugh Lofting I would learn to speak the language of animals. Doctor Dolittle first appeared in the author’s illustrated letters to his children, written from the trenches during World War I when actual news, he later said, was either too horrible or…
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