Worldprose

Wend softly   By silvered pale transference of fairy light From the moon hid behind clouds of lace Wend softly thou footst...

Maple leaf on the pond ice - amazing how the autumn colour has been kept and highlighted by the ice   Maple leaf lies prostrate on...

ACADEMY AWARDS 2013 WINNERS Best Picture: Argo Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook ...

Awake So into day ride on great horses that may bear the weight of hearts reborn The spirit of adventure now thrust toward is gras...

George Osborne has vowed to stick to the Coalition’s economic plans even after Britain lost its cherished AAA credit rating amid concern a...

The Apple Delicate hues of emerald and soft blushes of pink The colouring of summer left from fair wind and sun The apple reve...

New Song The day yet unmade will roll out across the hills With all the splendour of a song yet set to word Where else but in ...

Horseshoe Pass between Llangollen and Ruthin on Monday when i drove through on the way to a shop with a neighbour who was buying an antique ...

The Question Hanging by a thread that shall so soon be cut like a redundant cobweb I enquire at the heavens with countless quest...

The Promise Enjoy night for the sun is rising Though you do not know it yet As I speak your ancient name Calling awake the...

Robbie’s Haircut Robbie’s had his Valentine Day haircut He so looks the dog’s doodads; but shame... No girl impressed with su...

Cloth You are cut from a better cloth than I For if clothes do maketh the man You are impeccably dressed for life

Blossom Blossom in February may set a fair sight on the snow gilded boughs To enchant and yet supplicate the eyes at this new wor...

Les Miserables To the barricades, to the revolution, to the banks Defend class; fight to the death, do not ask thanks But pleas...

A selection of the current jokes on horsemeat being found in beef products. My doctor has told me to watch what I eat, so I bought...

From this To this in less than a week

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...