Monthly Archives: July 2012

Baccalaureat howlers

Posted on July 31, 2012 by

Each year markers for the French Baccalaureat (equivalent-ish  of A levels in UK, and ?graduating from High School?  in US) reveal some of the funny answers.  In 2012, these included: History:   Following the fall of the Berlin Wall wind … Continue reading →

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A demi-ballade, written despite the roaring in my ears.

Posted on July 31, 2012 by

  Silence would be balm to my ears. My deepest wish – to achieve it. Infernal internal noise appears, blots out music, can’t receive it. For ever more I long for quiet. Will this buzzing never leave me? The radio … Continue reading →

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A Cure for Overheating

Posted on July 30, 2012 by

The helical trio is silent now in its cage of rusty wire. An erect pillar, joined somehow with flexible tether, separates business end from cruciform base. The tether,  attached to the wall, stirs movement inside the cage, clicks and cranks … Continue reading →

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Wordle 67 – Kielder breakaway

Posted on July 29, 2012 by

image from Forestry Commission remote camera   Sole survivor of three, robust and full of life, the fledgling flaps in a frenzy almost falling, rehearsal for flight. Wayward chance  had brought these strange sublime creatures to settle in Kielder forest … Continue reading →

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Forget-me-Not

Posted on July 29, 2012 by

image from Wikipedia A blue haze greets my morning gaze self-sown joy. * Springtime favourite, serendipity flowers cover bare brown earth. * Myosotis blue, those memorable flowers remind me of you. In Spring, forget-me- nots flourish in the most unexpected … Continue reading →

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33-word hook

Posted on July 28, 2012 by

Trifecta asks us for an incipit – which is what I call a hook  – for a book in 33 words.  I took it further and worked out a possible continuation and a couple of alternative 33 word  hooks. A … Continue reading →

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6-word-Saturday

Posted on July 28, 2012 by

Yippee, we had summer this week. I moan about the weather often enough, so it’s only fair to applaud the wonderful week of sunshine we’ve had with (say it quietly) absolutely no rain.  Out twenty year old fan has come … Continue reading →

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CHOKA

Posted on July 28, 2012 by

I met a strange man from a land with no snowfall no ice and no polar bears. He shivered and shook while I sweated and stripped off my sealskin coat, hood and boots. I gave them to him, smiling, glad … Continue reading →

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Ten tens

Posted on July 27, 2012 by

                           I loathe syllable-counting poetry The stresses are all in the wrong places to make any sense of pentameter, tetrameter,  of iambs or dactyls. Rhythm counts for nothing  … Continue reading →

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Question

Posted on July 24, 2012 by

On my solitary constitutionals around the local countryside, for some reason I cannot fathom, the poetry that comes flooding into my mind demanding to be written down when I get home before it disappears for good is always in French! … Continue reading →

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Treachery

Posted on July 23, 2012 by

Betrayed by bankers’ grasping hands, by  politicos’ imbecility compounded by our own docility, the world economy doomed by duplicity, slides helter skelter to perdition.   For Poetic Bloomings

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Meaning, for Haiku Heights

Posted on July 23, 2012 by

Words are dangerous, redundant complication – actions reveal more. I read much poetry where the meaning is unclear, so I make my own.   also linked for Open Link Night at  http://withrealtoads.blogspot.fr/?zx=b5584de227c1b8 for 

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Wordle

Posted on July 22, 2012 by

Déjeuner sur l’Herbe by Edouard Manet Siren Song Cast off melancholy all you  lasses, for a wild erotic fling. Stray among golden grasses or sway on a silken swing. Spray exotic perfume, on your pale but rosy skin. Powder over your … Continue reading →

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Applause

Posted on July 21, 2012 by

The first to tame an animal nurture it and feed it for milk and meat; the first to plant a seed and watch it grow into something to eat; first farmer, giant leap.  for Trifecta who ask us to celebrate the … Continue reading →

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Six Word Saturday

Posted on July 21, 2012 by

From natural wonder to cultivated splendour. Obeying my heart guru, I’ve been walking an hour a day this week, as much on the flat as possible in this hilly village.  Enjoyable but limited, so I took the car to a … Continue reading →

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