Monthly Archives: September 2010

http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/prompt-21-its-post-your-poems-day/ WWP wants us to write about colour – this is right up my street, being a quilter, painter and would-be poet.  Normally I would be writing about shades of blue, but I looked outside and remembered… GREY: a childhood memory … Continue reading →

  Autumn in Normandy is a gorgeous season. Though this photograph (culled from a photo competition in The Republican) is of Autumn in Vermont, the view could just as easily be somewhere near here in a week or two.   This … Continue reading →

http://carryontuesdayprompt.blogspot.com/ The prompt this week is to carry on from the first two lines from Regina Spektor’s delightful song The Call A Life It started out as a feeling which then grew into a hope which became a bump, turned into … Continue reading →

Craneflies Minouchki’s chasing craneflies, of which we have a spate. Harmless fluttering beasties litter the verandah as the demon cat stalks, leaps and pounces, feasts on this hors d’oeuvre. Tiring quickly of his game of minuscule reward he miaows for … Continue reading →

The twenty-second prompt for 2010 is in honor of American poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter, and author — Shel Silverstein. Today would have been Shel’s 78th birthday. To learn more about this fascinating man many called ‘Uncle Shelby’, click … Continue reading →

for Thursday Poetry Rally http://jingleyanqiu.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/thursday-poets-rally-week-29-sept-23-29/ This is a poem from last year, a quasi sonnet: Moth Whispers  Moth whispers brush the bedside lamp. Summer’s here, with  nightly fear of fluttering, biting, stinging things. Tossing, turning, sweating, burning from  daily overdose … Continue reading →

The Thursday prompt asked for http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/thursday-prompt-20-exceptions-to-the-rule/  and my poem (in my experience) is about something unique. Teapot Thoughtful husband Christmas morning pretty parcel – paquet cadeau Splendid contents miracle gift: a shining teapot, just what I wanted: It doesn’t drip.

Thanks to national strike ferry cancelled fruitless trip home again frustrated I’ll now re-write yesterday’s over-optimistic travelogue.

Back Tuesday Written for BigTent, my haibun foretells tomorrow’s trials. Travelogue Haibun for BigTent poetry 24.9.10 Misty start before the dawn sees us on the road to Caen to catch the ferry, baggage, packed and picnic prepared the day before.  I … Continue reading →

Just a little one for http://carryontuesdayprompt.blogspot.com/ where the prompt was to use the first line of HG Wells’s War of the Worlds – No-one would believe. I believe that no-one would believe I could be this old – more in hope … Continue reading →