Monthly Archives: July 2014

Farewell campers

Posted on July 31, 2014 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

  Hannah Gosselin provided us with this lovely badge Thank you Poetic Bloomings for a month of fun and poetry, fresh air and friendship.

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BLAZON

Posted on July 30, 2014 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Margo Roby has suggested we write a blazon poem and you will find the recipe at her blog. I found that it was supposed to be about a woman’s body:  this one isn’t.  I don’t think my poem is technically … Continue reading →

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We don’t want to go home

Posted on July 29, 2014 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Where are you hiding? The parents called. Come out this minute, it’s time to go home. They searched the camp, they searched the woods, they shouted hither and yon until at last from the old oak tree a giggle met … Continue reading →

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A Racket Rant

Posted on July 27, 2014 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

As we grow old our hearing dwindles:  fact Electronic gadgetry can help us:  fact A decent laptop computer with multi-functional wizardry costs peanuts:  fact So why do hearing aids still cost the earth? They’re tiny, single-use gadgets, the technology not … Continue reading →

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Wordle 171

Posted on July 27, 2014 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

I dabble in the hallowed art of poesy, my efforts revealing only shallow skill. I hunt around for words with greater impact to give the poem a mighty whack, a blast of power  to the intellect, significance beyond the obvious. … Continue reading →

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6-word-Saturday

Posted on July 26, 2014 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

I can’t believe it’s Saturday already This week has whizzed by leaving me behind.   On Tuesday I wrote a poem Renaissance Camp about the most beautiful beach in Britain,  Sandwood Bay.  I picked up next week’s Radio Times to … Continue reading →

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Litter bugs beware, Viv is on the warpath

Posted on July 25, 2014 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

A really naff poem in response to today’s prompt at the Granada Camp to do a bit of good. Litter bugs beware If you go down to the woods today be sure to pick up your litter and it’s fair … Continue reading →

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Deluge

Posted on July 24, 2014 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

A fortuitous conjunction of prompts – Rain from the Grenada camp for wayward poets and a serious attempt to make us use metaphor and imagery at the Poets’ pub led to a confrontation between me and my bête noir, giving rise to … Continue reading →

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My Place

Posted on July 24, 2014 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

    I rather fancy a beach hut, with a gingerbread porch painted blue. A proper bed with a mattress, and a bright hand-made quilt or two. It would need a little bathroom – my days of dew-soaked treks are … Continue reading →

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Literary Time Travel

Posted on July 22, 2014 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Think of the books that we could unravel if we took the train for literary time travel. Would Anna Karenina miss that train or Laurie Lee not go to Spain? Should Juliet marry Romeo if back in time we all … Continue reading →

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Renaissance Camp

Posted on July 20, 2014 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

  image:  Sandwood Bay from Undiscovered Scotland.co.uk   Sandwood Bay in Sutherland in days gone by only reachable after a twenty-mile trek across moor and mountain. Nowadays a road ties it to so-called civilisation, a retrograde step. My renaissance camp … Continue reading →

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A Forest of Flies – wordle 170

Posted on July 20, 2014 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

  A Forest of Flies Words hang heavy while creatures swarm and buzz and hum around the room, storm my citadel; jump with passion onto my skin; thrive on my flapping, swatting, clapping; sneer at my efforts to remove them. … Continue reading →

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Publife

Posted on July 19, 2014 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

 We’ve been on a bender for a week at the dVerse Poets’ Pub, to celebrate its 3rd anniversary.  The final prompt of the week is about what life at the pub means to us. I’ve already posted twice today, but … Continue reading →

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Orage in camp

Posted on July 19, 2014 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

For the Granada Camp for Wayward Poets, Day 19.  They suggest we give thought to the creepy crawlies and other creatures around our camp.  Today has seen us besieged by thunderstorms, so my mind turned to their effect on fauna. … Continue reading →

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6 word Saturday

Posted on July 19, 2014 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

    Klervie’s playmat is finished.  Now what?  I have at last used the fabulous New Zealand fabric Celie sent me, to protect the leather of our armchairs: I don’t usually like gladioli, but some have appeared beside the patio … Continue reading →

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