Sunday Muse # 208

 

wonder if putin

ever held a butterfly in his hand

i think not

time is slipping

through her fingers

quickly

her days are numbered

 

 

give up

you're never going to find

the key to his cash box

or to his heart

Whirligig # 368

 we must cling on to a glimmer of hope

cause life will be fine

take joy

in the bird warble 

in a misty dawn

the glow of sunshine through the leaves

a twig the shape of a cross

there is no evidence that darkness

and the evil force will prevail

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Imperfect" by Kim Stafford: evidence, hope, cause, darkness, twig, warble, glimmer, glow, misty, dawn, life, fine

 

EARTHWEAL WEEKLY CHALLENGE

Sunday Muse # 207

 

my glam movie star persona

suppose i should learn to drive

even get a license

i spy a girl in an orange clunker

cupid is sharpening 

his arrows

was better when there were

2 lost souls swimming in a fish bowl

wish you were here

Earthweal Weekly Challenge

 do i miss it 

no

i have learned

to never make attachments

to places or things

it can all be taken away

wonder

scrabbled together with bits and pieces

 can be found

everywhere

between the ears

is our most sacred

space

place

J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 543 - Prelude and Fugue (Tr...

HAPPY EASTER

 HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE !

O dear

i remember a hat like this one

i am much older than i think

EARTHWEAL OLW # 114

Whirligig # 366

 got chickens horses and bees now

a glowing recommendation

for the rustic life

beats driving a truck

delivering dresses

driving along a busy highway

with a smeared windscreen

traffic jam caused by a funeral car

wooden hearse dangling out the boot

vicar in hot pursuit trying to baptize the deceased

 

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Amish" by David Shumate: highway, funeral, deliver, dresses, wooden, glowing, bees, horses, chickens, dangle, smear, baptize

 

Sunday Muse # 206

 

i've never liked that bird

who hangs about this car mirror

imagine looking like him

tis enough to make your feathers fall out

not a great idea

drinking a whole bottle of vodka

at dinner

having an alfred hitchcock moment

again

Childhood

 

 Break break break
on thy cold grey stones
i still remember that poem
from a time when children
learnt poetry by heart
read anne of green gables
and the scarlet pimpernel
and thought bananas
were a dessert treat with ice cream
rather than a teaching aid
to demonstrate condom application
in the sex education lesson

 

Earthlink OLW # 113

 

 

 

Pink Floyd - Hey Hey Rise Up (feat. Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Boombox)

Earthweal

  Let’s celebrate radical hope — that hope whose only basis is our faith in the wonder of life and our capacity to embrace it. EARTHWEAL

 

 

not easy

with the apocalyptic turn

the world has taken

faith in the wonder of life

faith in the magnificence

of J S Bach

faith in what  inspired him

is the answer for me

Sunday Muse # 205

 

a good reason

for always packing

a cut lunch

Rain...Friday Writings # 20

 

Bureau of Meteorology says it could rain for months on Australia's east coast

will it ever stop

this infernal flooding rain

with a hey ho

the wind and the rain

for the rain it raineth  every day

one day it will stop i suppose

not interested in building an ark

what with all those animals and noah

no thanks

 

 

 

 

Knitting

Anja Rožen, a 13-year old elementary school student from Slovenia is the winner of the international contest Plakat MIRU. She was chosen among 600,000 children from all over the world. "My poster represents the earth that connects and unites us. People stick to each other. If one person let go, the rest will fall. We are all connected to our planet and to each other, but unfortunately we are little aware of it," said the young creator. 

 

  when i was thirteen

i lived in a world

where grannies knitted a lot

taught their granddaughters

knit one purl one

taught their granddaughters

to always wear clean underwear

in case you got hit by a bus

taught their granddaughters

to cream their elbows

if they wanted to score a nice husband

yes i know

the world has changed

a lot