Tag: poem

Mimi

 

Childhood cornerstone

and mother of my best friend

go well Mrs R

 

by Scooj

O Mio Babbino Caro

 

This sweetest of songs

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa

and I in duet

 

by Scooj

 

Rain stopped play

 

Neither I nor dog

have any inclination

to take a wet walk

 

by Scooj

Hypocrisy

 

To not tolerate

all forms of intolerance

is intolerant

 

by Scooj

 

* I hear it all the time from politicians and pundits in the media – ‘intolerance will not be tolerated’. I know it is dependent on what is being talked about, but conceptually it is challenging to say such things.

Dawn haze

.

Sodium street lights

tormented and diffracted

Autumn fog in town

.

by Scooj

Big sleep

.

Thoughts turn to Winter

and an urge to hibernate

to curl up and sleep.

.

by Scooj

Down

 

Reached a new low point

the two tribes further apart

no resolution.

 

by Scooj

 

 

 

 

Occasional visitor

 

What is this I see?

carpet bathed in golden sun

I will lie in it

 

by Scooj

Long day

.

Nine hours travelling

departure and arrival

cloaked in inky black

.

by Scooj

Redland fox

.

Early rendezvous

or just a brief encounter

Redland platform one

.

by Scooj

* When I moved to Bristol in the early nineties the Bristol urban fox population was famously thriving, in fact my allotment had the highest density of foxes on record anywhere in the world. It couldn’t last and the double whammy of mange and the introduction of wheelie bins saw the population crash.

Over the years numbers have increased again and this was one of two foxes I saw on my short walk to the station this morning.