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Gawp! What is’t? a Yorkshire quadrille
Gawp! What is’t? a Yorkshire quadrille
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Dreams: senryū poetry
This week’s W3 poetry prompt is hosted by Poet of the Week, Sarah at Wordsandcoffeewriting. The poetry prompt is to write a poem on the theme of “dreams”. It is to be of 14 lines or fewer. 14 lines or fewer? I still haven’t written a sonnet. A sonnet has 14 lines. Now might be…
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The Snowflake and the Robin: a tetractys poem
The Snowflake and the Robin: a tetractys poem
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November: an acrostic poem
November: an acrostic poem
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Old people can be grumpy. I know why.
Old people can be grumpy. I know why. 5 #Reasons Why #Reason 1 One reason to spark a grumpy moment can be the unexpected horror of an early morning glance in the bathroom mirror. Rubbing sleep-filled eyes to peer at the reflection in the glass; then wonder who it is that is staring back at…
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Twelfth Night, The Holly Man And A Jolly Good Wassail!
Twelfth Night When is twelfth night? This is something we need to know.I am often confused, because some people say that it is the night of the 5th January and others say that it falls on the night of the sixth. Time to clear this up! Twelfth Night if you belong to the Catholic Church is…
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New storybook illustration:The Grim Rapper is tapping at your door…
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.”Tis some visitor,” I muttered, ”tapping at my chamber door—Only this and nothing more.” Edgar Allan Poe The Grim Rapper is one of the villains in a Rap musical play I wrote for children during After-School…
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The Solitary Bee
The Solitary Bee I am a solitary beeon my ownI am not a queen or even a drone I hum a tuneFrom time to timeIt could be a songOr maybe a rhyme Scrummaging in the soilTo toil and dig a tunnelI like doing itIt’s lots of funnel! (I have a sense of humour) I am…
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Spring is coming, spring is coming – wild daffodillies, Bunhill Fields and Blake
Spring is coming, spring is coming Spring is coming? It’s already here! In fact it became official on 21st March. But, I’ve drawn a picture of the wild daffodil and I thought that this little traditional song helps illustrate it! I love daffodils being called “daffodillies” in the lyrics. Spring is coming, spring is coming,Flowers…
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The Crow
The Crow The Crow knows I know he knows I know he crows. Lesley Scoble The Crow rhyme (if you can call it a rhyme at all!) is the shortest one I’ve ever written (there’s always something to be grateful for!). I suppose one might call it a ‘nonsense rhyme’ but it’s not. When I…
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