.
Frenetic flight path
grabs my attention and then
those orange wing tips.
.
by Scooj
Tag: Poetry
Copper
.
Colours of the Spring
copper beech canopy and
copper sulphate sky.
.
by Scooj
Time out in
Short time out indoors
enough barking already
the birds don’t like it.
by Scooj
Spring dance
The funniest thing
a puppy chasing blossom
and a butterfly.
by Scooj
Tactful
.
Recognise someone
in the doctor’s surgery
pretend not to see.
.
by Scooj
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
Natural adventures 