Category: Rhyme, Verse & Poetry
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Storm
before the storm the air grows still the light dims as the clouds gather the rain drifts like lace curtains fat drops gather on the edge of the leaves the clean smell of wet dirt thunder rumbles the storm moves further on Written for the Gargleblaster Challenge in 42 words: Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear
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The Room was Small
The room was small. There was no furniture. There was no window. The room was small, but had a spacious feeling, as if the walls were not actually there, as if they were not a solid object but a curtain that you could brush aside at will. The walls were coloured, ranging from galaxy black…
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Love is a many splendoured thing – or a bunch of ……
they’re little colured pills that promise all your ills will soon be sent away they taste good on your lips and feel bad on your hips but we swallow anyway in a packet or a bucket by the hand or by the bowl we open wide throw them inside and munch, and crunch, and groan…
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Where has all the funny gone? (long time pa-ah-ssing) – sing it with me …..
I’ve somehow lost my funny, my giggles up and gone the gloomy greys have got me, I am bereft, morose and moribund. I last saw her on the weekend when my daughters made me laugh my nephew made me chuckle (and it wasn’t just by half). If you see her can you tell her, I…
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Reasons why you shouldn’t do housework
I asked the MOAA to come down for tea tonight, which pushed me into a mini-flurry of housework. Keeping in mind some advice I read in a blog this morning (sorry, can’t remember whose it was now, sorry,sorry, sorry) about finding a reason to enjoy the things you have to do, my mind started versifying…
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ANZAC Day
It’s ANZAC Day here, for us Aussies and Kiwis it is a special day when we remember those lost at Gallipoli. My Grandfather was in the war, I’m pretty sure he wasn’t at Gallipoli, but I have his medals and they do mean something to me. I don’t know what he saw, did or endured…
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Zero to Hero – Day 6: Reading the Dream
The assignment for Day 6 is to write to our Dream Reader and include a new element in our post that we haven’t used before. i have been thinking about this all day, and come to the conclusion that this blog is really all about things that I would love to tell my husband if…
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Saturday Disappears
My Saturday just disappeared, wish I could get it backI sat in front of the computer and fell down the internet crack. I didn’t mean to do it, spend all day surfing the onlineI should have down the housework, instead of frittering all my time. If someone comes to visit, I’ll have to go and…
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Today has been
today has been an off day think it rained on my parade even wrapped up in my blanket still feel like I’m soaking wet so I wandered to the pantry to find what I couldn’t see I thought food might make me happy but I’m still feeling just as crabby so I’m tapping at the…
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Zero to Hero – Day 3: A Penny for your Thoughts
Today’s assignment: write the post that was on your mind when you decided to start a blog. Mmm, that’s tough, I’m not sure that I had anything on my mind when I started. I just went back and looked at my first couple of posts and they really were just fluff, my fluff, but just…

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