Tag: poem

Line

 

Three generations

like father like son like son;

finding old pictures.

 

by Scooj

 

Beadlet anemone

 

Unspectacular

intertidal specialist;

small red blobs on rocks.

 

by Scooj

 

  • Although unspectacular when the tide is out, these anemones deserve higher praise really for their underwater display.

Mole

 

To live is to dig

small soft furry tunneler

to dig is to live.

 

by Scooj

Absent father

 

He used to take us to Hamleys,

on the few occasions we’d see him,

and buy something small

like that plastic stuff

you blow balloons with

through a straw

and then we’d go on to a restaurant;

I always chose sausages and a coke

a rare treat indeed.

He didn’t really spoil us, in fact

it was probably the least he could have done

but we always looked forward to those days.

It must have driven our mum mad.

well now his absence is for good and I shall miss him

and his rather clumsy efforts at being a father.

 

by Scooj

 

Lyrebird

 

Antipodean

bird, supreme impressionist;

musical plumage.

 

by Scooj

Mimic

 

In the shadow of

St Michael’s Mount, small worm casts

mirror their neighbour.

 

by Scooj

Basking shark

.

A gentle giant,

pelagic plankton feeder;

Never too hasty.

.

by Scooj

Window on the world

.

A view from the train

the meandering river

where fours and eights pull;

predominant colour green

and all feels good with the world.

by Scooj