Monthly Archives: December 2012

Hogmanay

Posted on December 31, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

or New Year’s Eve to the Sassenachs Hogmanay started on Sunday in Edinburgh   You know you’re getting old when you go to bed early on 31st December.  2013 will be there when we wake up tomorrow. I can remember … Continue reading →

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windows live writer experiment and New Year Resolution

Posted on December 30, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

I hereby resolve to try to make my posts more interesting in response to Poetic Bloomings request for a New Year Resolution   Aquatom’s advice having been followed – it took ages – I am now trying it to see what … Continue reading →

Posted in haiku and senryu, pictures, Uncategorized | 13 Comments

WordPress Gripes Again

Posted on December 30, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Recently it has become more and more difficult to post poetry in a coherent fashion.  Extra line spaces arrive unbidden and it takes an age to eliminate them, especially as all lines below the unwanted space become mysteriously italicised.  Does … Continue reading →

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Wordle 89

Posted on December 30, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

A brooding sky promises to deliver a dramatic storm. No longer strewn with icy stars, dawn shows a taste of what is to come. Against a backdrop of purple and flame a greedy wind whips up squalls, kneads trees into tortured … Continue reading →

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Unwelcome Change

Posted on December 29, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Insidious change creeps up on us as we age hair whitens or falls out strength lessens or gives out skills fail bones are frail hearing fuzzes sight is muzzy hearts betray to our dismay as we decay I do not … Continue reading →

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6 word Saturday

Posted on December 29, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Not much turns out as planned  It’s a long story.  I saw an interesting quilt design in a magazine someone left behind after a sewing group afternoon, but I was too occupied with first the Magnum Opus, then a wedding … Continue reading →

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The Dubstep Goat?

Posted on December 27, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Imaginary Garden with Real Toads have issued the Dubstep Goat Challenge.   Reading the contributions from other poets has not thrown much light on the subject, so Maybe if I knew what a Dubstep Goat was or how it differed from … Continue reading →

Posted in free verse, Poems, short poetry | 28 Comments

He had his comeuppance

Posted on December 26, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

It starts at the end of October, more important than Hallowe’en to British children conditioned to celebrate a dastardly plot which failed a long time ago. I wish it hadn’t. That chap Guy Fawkes has a lot to answer for … Continue reading →

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A doubtful poem

Posted on December 26, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Doubt is inevitable given the difference in point of view from one person to the next. I wonder whether what you do means the same to you as it does to me? A thirty-three worder for Trifecta who want us … Continue reading →

Posted in Poems, short poetry | 11 Comments

Snow Haiga

Posted on December 23, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

for Haiku Heights

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wordle 88 The Enigma of the Tramp and the Commuters

Posted on December 23, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

  Through thick and mostly thin with rare highs and frequent lows he trudged the city street, head down against the cold. The insistent  rapid steps of  well-heeled travellers seemed to mock the broken man, resent his unkempt presence in … Continue reading →

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Christmas?

Posted on December 22, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Trifecta wants  33 words on our feelings about what Americans call “The Holidays” and what we call Christmas, though it is sometimes rather pompously called The Festive Season .   We go through the motions – it’s not the same without … Continue reading →

Posted in free verse, Poems, short poetry | 12 Comments

6-word-saturday

Posted on December 22, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Son is en route for China. and the middle of China at that, where it will be very, very cold.  That is if he can get to Heathrow through all the floods. Last time he went, he dressed the part: … Continue reading →

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Seigneur, ayez pitié de nous

Posted on December 21, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

  Have mercy on this wicked world O Lord, I pray at start of day. It’s the waste that makes me shudder; the waste of the truncated lives by war and madness brought to dust, never again to realise the … Continue reading →

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Pastiche. Guess Who?

Posted on December 20, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

I lie in bed for far too long because there are no daffodils floating past my window-pane, and I wonder if there could be a lake, or tree, waiting for me. Continuous rain for days and days means river, swollen … Continue reading →

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