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The window was open, the sharp night breeze struck as she remembered…The stage was lit, no one there. Silence. The children were gone, dancing, skipping, singing, laughing, away with the flute playing minstrel and his rats. It began with the rats, did it not? Then vengeance was carried out and the young followed on. AllContinue reading “Pied Piper Returns”

Do you hear the music play duos chorals dance like Jagger how’s the figure   Keepin’ it down? no too late tipped up the scale of C let it be B   G E Deeesaster just sing into town with your sound   Get the bus got free pass not now bus is out I’llContinue reading “off the scale”

Buttercup moon shines through the room my moon, he says through young fabled lips how say, I ask how ‘s that your moon I found it in my rocket bounced off mars and landed there he said, thumbs up, head up my astronaut now back on earth back to me I see But let meContinue reading “Buttercup Moon”

I’m walking, the sun behind me, a halo of light around my ears. A saint. No, an illusion. I’m no saint. Then what am I? Just a woman. A mother. Have been for more years than I haven’t been. Seems seamless but there are many stitches, threads bared, holes emerged. Motherhood is not without anContinue reading “Illusion”

I’m in the Old College Quad, protected by a high wall. I’ve donned my thermal vest, hat, gloves, warm jacket and scarf, but my legs are cold. A sign of ageing, the other sign, forgetting things, namely my thermal long johns. The blue badge guide soon assures us, we’ll be walking briskly on this tourContinue reading “Transient Tour”

My blog, my flog, my slog, fog, grog. Have an urge to write? I do. What better platform for writing, what better way to make me write and share it, than on a blog. My own exhibition room to write and share, release my thoughts, well only my saner ones, unload irritants.   Whether or notContinue reading “Blog,Flog, Slog”

Serious, steady, no smiles today I’m busy with my playtime battles, I say Join me in peace or take me down but I’ll beat you every time with merely my frown My world is here in the city of hills I know nothing more, there are no frills We make our money, we work hardContinue reading “A Mother’s Son”

Human decline is slow, seemingly invisible as it gathers, the sub conscious assembles, tiny spots of realisation seeping through, like a sponge that’s drip dripping water Grey walls aware of the preordained but hiding under skeins of fibrous matter   We have to face all life’s dramas which painfully present themselves to us The deathContinue reading “Winter Flurries”

“Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind.” The lyrics lulled me as I walked from my house, acquaintances forgotten already, trampled under each footfall, the hard tarmac unyielding under my walking shoes, bright pink laces flapping with each kick. I walked with determination, anger even, at what I’m not sure, trying toContinue reading “First Day of the Year”

I’m only quite wee just a slip of a thing but there’s crowds galore come hear me sing my crown is gold it shines very bright oh there’s my dad walking into my light my gran is there too waving over at me she’s smiling so wide her joy breaking free sing very loud sheContinue reading “I’m King Don’t You See”