Monthly Archives: August 2011

Wheat

Posted on August 31, 2011 by

Wheat waving in the wind sun will ripen grain Wheat makes flour to transform into many foods  flour gluten mixed with yeast salt and liquid bread bread and cheese a good lunch for a worker health  These are lanturne poems … Continue reading →

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Lanturne

Posted on August 30, 2011 by

Chat laughter tea and cakes sewing group at Viv’s bliss This is for http://margoroby.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/tuesday-tryouts-poetic-form-the-lanturne/  stubbornly sticking to my personal rule of writing and posting at least one poem a day.

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LATE

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

I look at the register and sigh.  I can see at once from the eager faces in front of me that Morag is late again.  The children wait for me to explode – a daily sight of late.  So I … Continue reading →

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I saw Sunday

Posted on August 28, 2011 by

Our friend who had surgery two weeks ago for a trapped sciatic nerve is in the Centre de Thalassotherapie de Granville for Re-education (Seawater therapy and physio etc), They have treatments morning and afternoon all week, but Sundays they can have visitors, … Continue reading →

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Two for the price of one

Posted on August 28, 2011 by

Irene Fitful breeze becomes a gale, and then a hurricane with power enough to wreck the stoutest vessel, level the landscape, batter down the trunks of oak, destroy the toughest skins. Oh Lord, turn your wrath aside and spare us … Continue reading →

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6-word Saturday

Posted on August 27, 2011 by

Postwoman ran over my friend’s dog I’ve just had my tearful friend Maria on the phone. Our mutual postwoman couldn’t see him and he couldn’t see her.    Terry was old, blind and diabetic, so it’s probably a blessing for the dog, but … Continue reading →

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The wind, a cento poem

Posted on August 26, 2011 by

Cento of lines from Philip Levine for http://www.foundpoetryreview.com/poetry-prompts/centos-from-philip-levine   The wind, who leaves nothing to chance spoke the incomprehensible syllable of wind, giving off her angers and sighs. Who knows or cares, except these last leaves breathing the first rains. … Continue reading →

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Summer vacation?

Posted on August 25, 2011 by

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im8n-BYkCZQ&feature=related Roll out those lazy hazy crazy days of summer except they weren’t. For a start, weeds and grass grow and must be eliminated to the detriment of my back and the benefit of the compost heap. For a next, … Continue reading →

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Viv’s Penance

Posted on August 25, 2011 by

Rhapsody in Blue A spurt of growth from rich brown earth, as stately spire sways in the breeze. Deep purple and sapphire draw my gaze to triumphant botanic skyward burst. From leafy background, soldier stems in healthy vigour upward surge to … Continue reading →

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Weary haiku

Posted on August 25, 2011 by

summer is weary too much raining and blowing roll on Autumn sun For http://youknowthatblog.com/     Wednesday Haiku prompts

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My left Hand

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

My left hand is grubby and green from preparing beans of which we have a glut. Is scratched from berrying, with nails that need cutting – they’re splitting from quilting – unadorned save a  wedding ring. Spreading ugly knuckles – … Continue reading →

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Thirteen

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

ways of looking at something for http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/.  This excellent prompt has been niggling away at me for a week, but pre-occupied with other concerns, all I could come up with was the number 13.  Some notes scribbled in the car  … Continue reading →

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Creativity

Posted on August 23, 2011 by

This poem was written a couple of years ago, and has been re-written in different forms several times.  None of them worked, so I give you the original, for the Open Link night at the poets’ pub: http://dversepoets.com/2011/08/23/openlinknight-week-6/  also for … Continue reading →

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Warlike Wordle

Posted on August 23, 2011 by

Desperation lights the touch paper of revolution as granite will opposes . Slouching rebels waste shots in the air in premature celebration. Who can believe Gadafi spin on cracked facts? Who’s in control? When the ash settles, cleansed, will rebels … Continue reading →

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Escape

Posted on August 22, 2011 by

http://liv2write2day.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/monday-morning-writing-prompt-a-day-of-refreshment/ asks us to think about a place we’d choose to go or an activity we’d like to engage in for a bit of respite…if only for a day.   The first thing that sprang to mind on reading this prompt was … Continue reading →

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