Sunday, August 31, 2014

small stone 240/2014


softened by summer rain, crusty from summer sun, the turned clay accepts my footsteps

Saturday, August 30, 2014

New poems on the From Pen to Page page

News Flash: five new poems published today, just click on the From Pen to Page ... Poetry and Prose link above the regular posts, and please post comments on these.

small stone 239/2014


from two fig trees: some green with hints of darkening, others a heavy black, all pulled with ease from the branch  

Friday, August 29, 2014

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Success ... and poetry

Spent a lot of time yesterday on poetry admin. numbering poems, checking them against the spread sheet and, yes, sending some to the graveyard of poor poetry. A very tiresome task and, of course, one that would not have been necessary if I had been organised when I first started writing. According to one or two poems that I did remember to date (!) that was about twenty years ago: be assured that I've kept a few of these oldies to work on but some are now in the graveyard aka the Trash Can.

And wonderful news from the Emerge Literary Journal, two of eight poems submitted only this week have been accepted. Makes the admin work worthwhile.

Need to close right now as I am off on another wonderful poetry task, this time lunch with Susan, a local poet friend. We meet about every three months to chat about our writing, submissions and other things poetic  - a joy, and hurrah, its sunny and looks like being another hot day.

small stone 237/2014


I pull and peel beetroot: my hands, knife, chopping board become a battlefield

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

small stone 236/2014


late evening, the cat slinks around the chicken run sniffing at stale bread crusts, naked corn cobs, limp lettuce

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

small stone 235/2014


pumpkin stalks and leaves trail
over the edges of the raised bed



plump and golden fruit, ready 
to be roasted in quarter moons







deep in their yellow flowers
the black busy of bumblebees










Monday, August 25, 2014

small stone 234/2014


round, grey, long tailed, larger than a mouse, smaller than a rat: so perhaps a vole has been sleeping in the spare straw