Dip dip…

 

A fleeting moment

of blue interrupts standard

British Summer grey.

 

by Scooj

Leaf cutter bee

 

Solitary bee

navigating to and fro;

busy nestbuilding.

 

by Scooj

4pm

Is it time for tea?

Sandwiches and cakes on a

sunny afternoon.

 

by Scooj

Fossil

Hidden in the sand

an ancient artefact bides;

Eocene shark tooth.

 

by Scooj

Close up of a fossil shark tooth, Bracklesham Bay

 

Fossil hunting in Bracklesham Bay is a passion of mine.

Fox

 

Wiley visitor,

a young fox surveys its patch;

cat is not amused.

 

by Scooj

Love song

 

Miss Joan Hunter Dunn

I love you more than J.B.

could have imagined.

 

by Scooj

 

With thanks to, and total admiration for John Betjeman and A Subalterns Love Song

Between my finger and my thumb

I can’t dig with my

pen as Seamus does with his.

I’ll dig potatoes.

by Scooj

Inspired by Seamus Heaney’s beautiful poem ‘Digging’ which I read as a child. I love the metaphor. I love the poem.

Second Division

Day in Birmingham,

‘Venice’ of middle England.

Canals, not beauty.

 

by Scooj