Wednesday 11 October 2023

100 Words: The Yellow House by the Blue Sea

Won't you stop by for tea

In the Yellow house 

By the Blue Sea


Won’t you spend time with me 

In the Yellow house 

By the Blue Sea


I wrote this down for you to see

In the Yellow house 

By the Blue Sea


Left it on your settee

In the Yellow house 

By the Blue Sea


If only I could leave me

In the Yellow house 

By the Blue Sea


Then I would run to you

Then I would say to you

Come and be with me 

In the Yellow house 

By the Blue Sea


Always always

Forever ever




Written for Friday Fictioneers from the following picture prompt (see here for other stories): 


PHOTO PROMPT © Rowena Curtin

Monday 25 September 2023

Worry

Something that grows 

until it’s exposed.

Something that thrives in the dark, 

but withers at the slightest spark -


Worry is a mould that festers,

unless you cut it off at source,

Worry is a ghoul that pesters,

never let it run its course.


So


Let me share it with you now,

Let its hold diminish.

Let me share it with you now,

Let this feeling finish.


And


Let us talk so that you can walk,

Let me help carry so you don’t tarry.

Never worry on your own;

Know that you’re not alone.


Friday 18 November 2022

Quafftide!

Quafftide! 

Put all thoughts aside 

And drink

Don’t think

Just pick up your glass

Go on, get off your arse,

And join us in merriment,

It won’t be to your detriment,

No!

Come and choose your tipple,

Seize it in your hand’s gripple

And savour that first sipple

That will take you on this triple.

For tis quafftide,

Come for the ride

Stay for the cheer

There’s much more here 

Than just pale beer

It can be soft and cold or hot,

Whatever you like or have got,

Just pull up a chair and chat

Take off your coat, 

Put down your hat

For, I tell you - 

Quafftide!


Friday 11 November 2022

China Anniversary

For just over twenty years I’ve been blogging,

Twenty years of this creative flogging.

Ramblings, rhymes, stories, haiku,

All wrapped up and written for you.

(Whoever you are, mostly it’s me,

For me, to keep me my sanity.)

All sort of things, even conceptual “art,”

Going right back to uni, back to that start

In a little library computer room,

Weaving posts on my friend’s little loom.



For years I covered all most everything,

Too much, sometimes, with words I’d sting,

But mostly this was just the inception

Of an outlet for creative conceptions.



Real life eventually took a back seat

As I found other new ways to feast:

Timothy found and captured a unicorn,

An oath to 250 Word stories was sworn.


And after the loom was gone

A slow expansion was begun

Into haberdasheries of diff’rent kinds

Six in all, so far, you can find!



Fridays soon became Fri-yays,

Alongside some other prompt days.

And the occasional comp win or mention

Would make me feel more of a menschen.



But the most warming feels,

Like the hottest of meals,

Come to the bottom of the page:

A reader’s comment most sage.



So, this is it, my China Anniversary, 

Of fighting my greatest adversary,

And it’s all as frail as a china decoration,

If I cannot find a way to (“proper”) publication.


Wednesday 9 November 2022

Mind shadows

Did you know, that foe

Is only your mind?

It is not one of your kind.

It lives in the dark places,

Showing half of one of its faces,

While hiding half of yours,

Buried deeply in unused drawers.

You need only a key or some light

To save you from your plight

Once you recognise what you know:

That that foe

Is only your mind.


To yourself, always be kind.


Wednesday 2 November 2022

“What they think is real”

“What they think is real”

And this scares me, 

This rot that’s congealed

On their brain makes them act, 

Makes them feel,

As if these things are real -

These shadows,

These distorted reflections,

This bile infection,

Alters their brain, their eyes,

To see these facts as lies,

Their opinion multiplied

In power to shout

What they say it’s about

And its just poison they spout.


STOP


How to make them see?

How to meet them on the field?

Because what they think is real,

And we need to change what they think

If we’re to get out this slipp’ry sink.

Just need to find

A way to change their minds -

To make life fair,

For every single bairn

Young to old,

Til this story is no longer told.

Because what they think is real,

And must be treated as if it were so,

In order to change how they feel -

With new seeds we must tenderly sow.