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Lame Lyrics

A villanelle I like villanelles. They rhyme, and I have a structure to follow. They are like word puzzles, and puzzles are my thing. Here’s one I wrote from a challenge in Writers’ Forum to compose a villanelle on the theme of learning about poetry. Diagnosing Lame Lyrics The words connect, but do they flow … Continue reading Lame Lyrics

Bloganuary’s tail-end

So that was Bloganuary 2023. It was a relief not having to think what to blog about, but I didn’t feel I could really get my teeth into this year’s questions. A nice month to visit, but I wouldn’t want to stay there. ### 29th Jan        What is something you learned recently? I can’t break sellotape … Continue reading Bloganuary’s tail-end

Bloganuary week 4

I’ve seen fewer Bloganuary posts this year on my feed. (Although, I confess, I haven’t been searching them out.) Last year there were enough to make me curious, although it took a while to sink in. The prompts have given me something to blog about this month – most of them not topics I would … Continue reading Bloganuary week 4

Bloganuary week 3

Since I don’t blog daily, I’m doing my bit for Bloganuary by posting a summary of the week’s prompts. ### 15th Jan        What fear have you conquered? The fear of pressing ‘Publish’. ~ ~ ~ 16th Jan       Do you have a memory that’s linked to a smell? The smell of freesias reminds me of churches. Nothing specific, … Continue reading Bloganuary week 3

Bloganuary week 2

I don’t blog daily. I’m sort of taking part in Bloganuary by posting a summary of the week’s prompts. Some responses have been brief. ### 8th Jan        How far back in your family tree can you go? Another short one. . . I have the name of my birth mother on my original birth certificate. No … Continue reading Bloganuary week 2

Bloganuary week 1

Last year I joined the challenge late with a summary of the previous week’s bloganuary prompts. I don’t blog daily. Anyway, a one-word blog seems a waste of cyberspace. It worked for me last year, so here we are again. ### 1st Jan        What is something you want to achieve this year? Placement in more short … Continue reading Bloganuary week 1

Singing as Therapy

Raising the spirits without resorting to spirits I belong to a local singing group: nothing fancy, just a singalong. Some weeks, I ask myself if I can be bothered to turn out – especially when I’m busy or put off by the weather we’ve been having lately here in the East of England. When I … Continue reading Singing as Therapy

A Christmas story I made earlier

Another re-post! Faithful followers will have read this one before (twice!) But it’s a story I’m fond of… ### Christmas Presence Shorty scrambled over the top of the skip and landed next to me on the old cardboard that topped the pile of rubbish. I don’t know what was underneath that but it stank a … Continue reading A Christmas story I made earlier

Angels

This was a collaborative story with another member of our writing group. We used the photo prompt from a November challenge from the Stine Writing blog’s ‘Simply Six Minutes’. Jane Pogbee (the Whittlesey Wordsmith who illustrates our anthologies) wrote a ‘part one’ giving it the title Angels, and I completed the tale the following month, … Continue reading Angels

Christmas Wrapping

Here’s a previous years’ poem that returned to me this morning while wrapping hubby’s present. While one hand holds the paper, t'other's groping for the tape. Her goodwill fades as sticky tape escapes her lurches. She lets go the gift, to travel to the tape that caused the hassle and the perfect wrap unravels. Curses! … Continue reading Christmas Wrapping