Sunday, March 29, 2020

Monday, March 23, 2020

self isolating
Amazon delivery -
knock-a-door-run-away
racing pigeons
flashing silver
under heavy skies
March blossom
on the cherry's
sunward side
starter main course
and dessert
three puddles of vomit
my heel slips
on vomit -
Friday night out
crow solves
the burger-box problem -
processed food
texting whilst walking
I find myself
in the ladies loo
revolving doors
and escalators -
timing is everything
the mechanical digger's
sharp elbow -
praying mantis
two fat pugs
chase a frisbee -
the memories of wolves
above Westminster
the union flag flies
from left to right
coloured cables
on the tunnel walls -
underground map
keeping my
identity safe -
self storage
the square pond's
flat plane -
frozen still
close-ranked
under the war memorial -
January daffodils
five magpies
on the road -
bar code
white on blue
in high bare branches -
tesco bag
I place two stones
on my shadow
and walk away
nine white ducks
under the tree -
town hall meeting
a glass of malt
and a book of haiku
beside my chair
the long shadows
of two bicycles -
rippling the winter hedgerow
how slowly
time passes -
speed awareness course
fourteen yellow leaves
the bare
tree's crown
drab autumn hedgerow
marbled with
green ivy
two clocks ticking
to different beats -
syncopated time

Monday, March 9, 2020

a mother's love
revealed in the
tenderness of stone

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golden coins
at the tree's base
an unexpected windfall
the beeches
trembling leaves
clinging to summer
with St John's head
on her platter -
Salome slicing
fresh-kneaded dough
and my grandmother's memory
rising together

accepted by Robert Epstein for the Signature Anthology - currently in draft
the white butterfly
circling the snowberry -
season's change
old friends
round a table -
bread and wine
late summer swallows
wheel and circle -
winging it
persistent drizzle
under grey skies -
washing the solar panels
overlapping circles
on the lake's surface -
unexpected showers
the stillness
of a drawn bow -
waiting spider
in my
arrow's flightpath -
dancing dragonflies
walking along
his nose in a book
on a collision course
jet fighters
fleeing
their thunder
a seagull
descends with the breeze
as another rises
little lizard
on a stone path -
panic attack
harvest spider
keeping pace with my boots -
briefly
upturned shell
on gravelly beach -
emerald bottle glass
two cormorants
on a black rock -
white spume
sharp slanted
sea rocks
green surging wave
horizontal trunk
and vertical branches -
square roots
a vivid
blanket of moss -
roots and stones
wall ferns
brush my fingertips -
blackberry thorns
all the trees
bend to point
the wind's way
ancient treetops
and younger saplings
directing the wind
the old
stone wall's
mossy tonsure
beyond the
flexing treetops
a sunlit hillside
wasps unwelcome
at the picnic -
summer semaphore
bloody feathers
in a circle -
dinner plate
crossing the
cattle grid -
size thirteen boots
butterfly bush
between the tracks -
inter-railing
a tiny sail-boat
skimming the water -
downy white feather
green grass under
thunder clouds -
electric blue
dragonfly over
sparkling water -
carpe diem
the campsite's
distant corner -
a rocking caravan
blank eye-sockets
of wall mounted deer -
roast lamb dinner
wedding anniversary dinner
we discuss
the cutlery drawer
right in the middle
of my telescope lens -
a huge spider
the women
greet one another
with falsetto cries
new mum gazes
at her new baby -
dad takes selfies
two gossiping friends
stick the knife in -
lunch is served
old stone lintel
above the
bricked-up door
she's away
for a few days -
the seat's up

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three pairs of spectacles
and a denture -
bedside companions
riding the breeze
the bee tracks
the moving leaf
order of service
for the funeral of...
my growing collection
a bee pauses
momentarily -
double yellow lines
late July
the chestnut's
brown-edged leaves
magpie takes
the zebra crossing -
black and white and...

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eight lanes
of motorway -
a sunlit hillside
the drunk
recalls his ex
under the lychgate
a fine rain
kerbside puddles -
the funeral car
minnows align
within the flow -
I ponder retirement
message whilst cycling
and you'll die -
predictive text
a sapling
in the bell tower -
church growth
a swift arc
the ball's flight
a tiny splash
the bee flies
over water
beside the bridge

Monday, March 2, 2020

a motionless willow
under heavy skies -
crashing thunder
chocolate cake
under a glass dome -
smash-and-grab
crow in two dimensions
the breeze
moving its feathers
sheer granite face
a lichen ring
making a foothold
the derelict airfield
shaped by
the world's horizon
an old man
browsing cheap wine -
tasselled shoes

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two tiny birds
in arial combat
death wish
white van
in the poppy field
three hi-viz jackets

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watching
the morris dancers
open-mouthed
through two windows
I see her tears
at the traffic lights
Monday morning
bathroom scales
fake news

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white on blue
the lark's thin trill
invisibly high
an archery field
the swallow's
precision flight
the crow squats
momentarily
then springs into flight

 plastic flowers at the roadside - everlasting memories