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...ponderings from the pen of a poet, via the heart of a human, often touched by the wicked sense of humour of an observer of oddities...

Monday, 8 December 2025

December Darkness

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 With Christmas looming, and many fairy lights being readied for draping another tree - or for some enthusiasts. whole houses - I noticed ho...
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Friday, 1 March 2024

Wednesday's Words On Friday?

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 That's the title of a blogpost belonging to 'Drifting though life.'   "Isn't that what many of us tend to do?" I ...
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Wednesday, 1 November 2023

On the Horns of a Dilemma?

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Be afraid ? Or not... Hehehe - I happened across this, my alarming selfie,  just too late to give readers a touch of Halloween horror on tha...
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Friday, 27 October 2023

A different resurrection, perhaps?

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A Story in Ballad Form At the edge of the forest something stirred and through the dark trees came a figure cloaked and wrapped about with a...
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Saturday, 21 October 2023

Unanswered Question

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    Bright waters of oblivion   in deepest streams of consciousness,   ripple and refresh  ...
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Tuesday, 17 October 2023

A Late Night Muse

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 Can be a help or a hindrance, and I'm not certain which one had me in its grip yesterday.   Although I knew this week's  P&SU ...
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Tuesday, 10 October 2023

A Translation!

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  To see the original Odd Words Ode, click  HERE   - for anyone who is curious to know what needed translating! Hehehe...  A hairy buttock...
Friday, 6 October 2023

Contrasts are the spice of life...

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Around the world, Plain English is used as a communication tool. Today, as an English person born and bred, I decided to exhume this anythin...
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Friday, 29 September 2023

Home is where the heart is...

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                                                          Pack my life in a suitcase, like one I had as a child, with brown cardboard corner...
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Friday, 22 September 2023

Time Out Of Time

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Time is elastic; it stretches as you try to create another poem, until words become lost in translation and day-dreams take over the helm to...
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Wednesday, 13 September 2023

Storm

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I used a detail from an Andrew Wyeth's painting entitled "Squall" to create this rendition, and the words followed after... Th...
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Friday, 8 September 2023

Angel Dreams Revisited

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Adrift in dreams, imagination whirls and lilac angels' wings fly close at hand. The flower scented air begins to swirl and lulls us furt...
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Saturday, 19 August 2023

Conundrum

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With apologies to the musical score of Oliver, which gave me the title I've used as a springboard for this somewhat strange offering.  T...
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Friday, 11 August 2023

Game For A Laugh?

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I sense something silly -  is it growing from my head?   I knew that it was waiting, soon as I climbed out of bed. It's not a hat, or hu...
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Wednesday, 9 August 2023

Thinking out loud?

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This afternoon, I happened upon a TV programme with the arresting title of 'An Englishman Abroad', coupled with the name Alan Bennet...
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Sunday, 6 August 2023

In search of rhyme or reason, perhaps?

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  That pretty much describes my day... Blogland, that wonderful place which allowed us to share many rhymes and reasons, has been steadily d...
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Sunday, 11 December 2022

Winter-dark Afternoon, and post script **

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  There is a fly. Too small to be a FLY in capital letters, I dub it fruit fly. I don't know how it thrives; it tries to butt my desk-la...
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Saturday, 24 July 2021

Gestation

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  From some inner dark, glimmer seeds of love and light; a mother gives birth. From emotion's well, once-silent words are drawn forth; a...
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Sunday, 18 July 2021

Too hot to handle?

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Heat-wave shimmer over an arc of sky is echoed above the crowded cities; houses huddle together, whispering desperate pleas to an uncaring W...
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Saturday, 10 July 2021

Internalisation

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  The artist's model sat as though entranced by some secret known only to herself, calm and detached from the real world; an ideal subje...
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Saturday, 3 July 2021

Time to Muse?

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    Sea Dreams Carried on the rising tide of night, flotillas of persistent dreams set sail, while whirlpools circumnavigate my mind - attem...
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Sunday, 27 June 2021

All in the mind...

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 On a dull, damp weekend, what better than to visit Carrie , to see what is afoot... And the prompt picture subject is a four-footed being, ...
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Sunday, 2 May 2021

Cause and effect

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  Out of nowhere, the snow-blizzard hit. It whipped my wrap-around skirt into a frenzy, then whisked it away. Up, up it billowed skywards, b...
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Monday, 26 April 2021

Game for a Laugh?

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 I guess any Bloglanders who happen to read this post, may identify with at least part of it - i.e. us Oldies do tend to harp back to the pa...
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Wednesday, 14 April 2021

Like the White Rabbit, I'm late, I'm late!

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 But on discovering this photo on Sunday Musing 's blog. I had an urge to let the words flow, so read on below:- Poppy fields and paper ...
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Four more lines and a title!

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 OK, there may be a few days gap in real life, but in BlogTime, this is in direct response to my long-time Blogpal RWP's suggestion for...
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Friday, 2 April 2021

And the year rolls on -

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 From December to April, this blog and I have remained silent, whilst all around the pandemic has raged , regardless. Perhaps it was the sun...
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Saturday, 26 December 2020

Strings

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 On this dull, chilly Boxing Day, one little word catapulted several interpretations into my mind,  perhaps the noblest of which being '...
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Monday, 16 November 2020

Spreading the word, perhaps?

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 And which word would that be, I wonder, among the ever decreasing number of bloggers who post something each day? Let me whisper it in your...
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Thursday, 3 September 2020

Golly Gosh!

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Once again, Blogger plus Google have thrown a spanner in the works! Will it spell the end of us ancient Bloggers, as we are forced to kee...
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