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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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Cake
Describe your perfect birthday cake. A couple of years ago I took up the vegan diet for veganuary and learned new ways of cooking. Here’s an easy to make vegan birthday cake! If you are an adventurous cake baker and into wholefoods like me try wholemeal self-raising flour, brown sugar and chocolate sprinkles. Conversions are…
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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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Wild
What is a song or poem that speaks to you and why? The Stolen Child “Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.” W.B. Yeats Because sometimes I can imagine I was that stolen child.
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