Worldprose

Fire Dogs Fire dogs never sleep when the hearth is awake Restlessness sat on them; a sojourn outside to make When the green fie...

Lateral Lateral and careless save for seven shades of moonlight That lingers long in the half light of this darkness and... Sen...

Snowfall Snow falls like a meteor shower of whitest softness Hits earth to effervesce and dissipate on warm surfaces Sows grass...

       

     

Fish food for thought Some scientists published in the journal Fish and Fisheries Sombre studious research concluding that fish ...

Mist Mist, mist wreathes everything It seeps out of the very ground Trees now bereft of green clothing Hug it close...

The Nexus of Lesser Men Futility is the nexus on which society now pivots its future leaders Here comes the time of lesser men t...

Light The hour is seven dawn in the month of January I can see light again on the eastern horizon A pale fissure opening betwee...

Day shall give way Day give way to night and scatter stars across the water Pearls to make a trail of cosmic light to guide ship...

Love Remembered Loves shadow lies long on the ground It hugs against grass like a lost caress I went back today to our specia...

778 Islands East and West Island *and 776 siblings in the southern globe Wait to share a sumptuous feast of yet undiscovered wealth...

Gloom   It wraps around me like a storm cloud; so grey is this winter day Neither shall I, bird or beast venture from bush, hearth...

W H Smith will not be shopping there again - 1p for a carrier bag indeed. Hello silly company - you're selling mainly paper products a...

The whittling has finished. The judges of this year's Man Booker Prize started with a daunting 145 novels and have chosen Hilary Mante...

My heaven is not yours Oh I understand that the empyrean* is not for me Not in this lifetime; if ever it shall be within grasp ...

My Journey is not yours Nobler than thou; hardly my dear, but so much older I, so old to you now that when your world was young, ...

New Year Slow is the perceived hand of time to the artist Yet so, it carves a deep presence across skin Destroys all touched ...

I will become another F or now to be unremarked would seem to be right Not yet a wizard carrying a carved wooden staff Or a b...

So I will desire for understanding and the humility to see it For from the heart of Christmas must surely always come peace B...

For whit I now make my plea of ignorance no less the bold for its stupidity Sooth it was as colossal in size as told from legend by a n...

Some pictures from around Entwistle reservoir yesterday. The tree decorators have been out in force this year but there is a note from the...

Now into my 7th week of not smoking. I have an electronic cigarette for the moment which is completely harmless and smell free. I am lov...

I finally decorated the cakes this week. The square 14 inch monster (22lb) is for Nick’s Rumbletums catering in Clitheroe and the 12 inc...

A heavy hoar frost has been with us for some days now. It is thickening its grasp on the trees and plants. Even without snow after a whi...

T-6 Days   The end of the world is nigh so apocalypse observers would have us believe. The Mayan calendar may have begun in 3114BC an...

Went to watch the latest ‘Great Expectations’ film last week. Enjoyed it very much (so recommended) but I generally like anything Helen ...

Gabrielle’s chariot descends to bear me away The inviolate forever meets the indomitable Pity the porcelain now lost amongst the g...

Uncalled but not unlooked for on the horizon The first snow of the winter season fell today Swirling in unison down onto hard star...

The first house east of the sea and west of the world sits atop a green rolling hill that rushes toward the sea like the keel of a ship. P...

Bread prices set to rise after bad weather hits UK wheat crop. The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said millers w...

On a clear and frosty day to surely attend Under trees; do shadows and sun blend The beauty of the winter we may lend But...

One day I will live in a house high on a bleak heather clad hill close to the stars. The air will be as clean as the stream that feeds t...

Most authorities trace the name 'Darwen' to the Brythonic* derw "oak", originally applied to the river; an etymology sup...

The ultimate futility of the inbuilt need to exist can only ever be modified with exquisite grace. It rises and falls extant in delicate v...

The world sits behind the stars The stars sit behind the creator The creator sits beside nothing Nothing is the design of inten...

  Apple and Olive Oil Cake   280g plain flour ½ tsp ground cinnamon ¼ tsp salt 1tsp baking powder 75ml virgin olive oil...