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Have I moulded into mum say dad I thought I was you musical and fun Mums are the one’s who say no you can’t follow my leader do as I do Women rationalise it or not irrationalise hormones strung too tight These melt Or derange themselves go aft sailboat to somewhere if only I sayContinue reading “transform the tanka”

Whenever I play the organ at a remembrance service, I think of a story told to me by a vicar.  I believed his story.  There was no reason to disbelieve him.  Each service, from my position in the organ well, I leant with passion towards Rector Beaumont’s every word.  The pulpit shone as light beamedContinue reading “The Crypt”

As I look at the TV screen, distanced but part of the demise of an era, the death of Queen Elizabeth II, I see a country swollen with people.  Queues, traffic jams, tears, sorrow, confusion in the very young.  I’m saddened by the Queen’s death, which with it brings poignant memories of my mother, aContinue reading “The Red Pony”

Times are hard.  We’ve had a pandemic, money is tight, our children have had disruption in class.  It might seem like things haven’t evolved very much, after all we heard about the Spanish Flu in 1918 when more than fifty million people died worldwide.  Soldiers returning from war carried the virus onto trains, into citiesContinue reading “Child Labour”

Two years.  It’s been two years.  A lonely two years, relationships put to the test, tempers tempered, on some heads, not all.  Yes, the world has twirled madly on its axis for two years, a whirling dervish of disease and other things.  What other things?  Video group singing, guitar playing, saxophone, trumpets, drums.  A veritableContinue reading “Unfurl the Curl”

It’s only natural to feel blue, surrounded by people and still alone, showing your smile, but hiding woe, life seeming steady, and yet the ups and downs unsettle you.  Everyone has felt this, at some point.  It doesn’t mean endless suffering is yours, but only a spell, a dark cloud passing over, tears from theContinue reading “New Growth”

‘Talk to me, I’m in charge here,’ they say.  ‘Oh ok.’  I take my eyes from the dark and look upon the face of wisdom.  ‘What are you looking for here?’  ‘I’ve lost my way and it was a choice between going up the hill or downhill.  I chose downhill,’ I say as I suddenlyContinue reading “Future Progression”

The dominos are falling, one with two, three with four, or five with six, depending on the dots.  She sits on the edge, the cold, the distant, the floating cloud.  She is the double four, and she stands strong, doesn’t waver, her slim frame, streamlined, silent.  An ebony piece, warmly cool, touched by no one,Continue reading “Double Four”

A mangled thought was straightened at the sink, pressed through the rollers of the past, after a pitying self was dubbed and scrubbed, a foul mouth full of soap.  Spangles, small squares of colour no longer sold, sucked into antiquity, and the penny chew pulls at sugar dipped rhubarb crunching teeth.    Lasting memories inContinue reading “Idiosyncfactic”