I'm writing this at the end of day that started with a very short to-do list ... my 2014 daily small stone, my gratefulmay entry and perhaps I'd start to draft a poem for the 52poems project I'm now firmly part of.
Hey ho, and I guess you know what you are about to read ... the day has flown, and I have also packed for my week at the Hay Festival, designed a poster to advertise the Quilting Exhibition (now coming up very soon indeed) and down countless other small things that I will not mention in the interests of not boring you silly!
This means today has been a typical day ... why do I ever think otherwise ... things to do always seem to arrive uninvited in my day!
Does this happen to you? Surely I can't be the only person to have a to do list with its own secret agenda.
Just the plants to water, rubbish to put out, that poem to think a little more about .... and then I'll read another chapter of my book, oh dear , who am I fooling.
I'll be back here after my annual immersion in all things literary and a few doses of border town wandering. If you can't find the small stones next week its not because they are not being written but because I am likely to be sans internet. Prepare for a bumper crop on my return.
Friday, May 23, 2014
small stone 143/2014
summer hailstorm decorates the garden with platters of
beads –opal shimmers with brief lives
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
small stone 141/2014
a chaffinch rests on a
high wire – showing off his bright lights and sweet song
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
small stone 140/2014
kitchen sounds - dishwasher
at work, Debusy’s Clair de Lune, a bumble bee searching for the way out
Monday, May 19, 2014
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Catch up
Briefly, lots of (gentle) gardening, reading The Luminaries on my Kindle and amazed to find it really is OK in bright sunshine ... I'm trying to follow the NZ geography without resorting to a map!
and the summer edition of my favourite poetry mag has arrived ... The Dark Horse ... worth the subscription for the insightful essay on plagerism and, of course, the poems! See more at http://www.thedarkhorsemagazine.com/
Maybe I'll send then a few of my poems soon, meanwhile there are a few ready to post to other magazines -the ones that do things the tradiitonal way i.e. not by email! I've had three acceptances recently inbetween the rejections but that's how it is so I keep on sending.
the water resevoir is brimming, the rose reaching for the tree trops and the little old man continues to keep his half closed eyes on it all!
Back soon, normal services for my UK life resume this week before I travel to Hay for lots of literary stuff.
Maybe I'll send then a few of my poems soon, meanwhile there are a few ready to post to other magazines -the ones that do things the tradiitonal way i.e. not by email! I've had three acceptances recently inbetween the rejections but that's how it is so I keep on sending.
the water resevoir is brimming, the rose reaching for the tree trops and the little old man continues to keep his half closed eyes on it all!
Back soon, normal services for my UK life resume this week before I travel to Hay for lots of literary stuff.
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