Tag: poem

Homonym 1. Coaster

 

Here I lay my cup

and through the window I spy

a small trading ship.

 

by Scooj

  • A memory of many, many hours looking out of the window of my Grandparent’s house which was opposite Falmouth Harbour in Cornwall – there was always something going on in the Carrick Roads (the natural harbour area or ria (flooded river valley)).

Filling in the gaps

 

Barely an inch long

fragments millions of years old

telling a story

 

by Scooj

 

I spent a couple of hours looking for fossils at Bracklesham Bay last weekend and it was really tough going. I was lucky though and found these two sawfish rostral teeth from the eocene period – (quite a long time ago).

Sawfish rostral teeth fossils, Bracklesham Bay, January 2020
Sawfish rostral teeth fossils, Bracklesham Bay, January 2020

Winter Heliotrope

 

Looking for the sun

where there is none to be found

a winter beauty

 

by Scooj

 

 

Fixer

 

Shower door, loo seat

mirror, mirror on the wall

deserved cup of tea

 

by Scooj

Hopeful

 

Metal detectors

and their expectant owners

hidden artefacts

 

by Scooj

Winter tired

.

Overpowering

urge to sleep like a baby

these endless dark days

.

by Scooj

Goldcrest

 

Tiniest of birds

pays me a little visit

deeply privileged

 

by Scooj

Kick out the old

 

Farewell twenty tens

decade of the populists

time for something new

 

by Scooj

Slog

 

A kind of torture

first day back at the office

just bumping along

 

by Scooj

Gunners at home

.

A father and son

both alike in preference

are Emirates bound.

.

by Scooj