Worldprose

And tomorrow is just another day away To loose again its meagre heat upon winter Slithering away at the approach of dusk Across the h...

We are a passage of innocence in a swift perfect chaos Until we are torn asunder in time's irreverent perception Looking back thro...

Merry Christmas 

To fully celebrate the Christmas fable We light the windows, trees and gable Pile delicious food upon a groaning table But I cann...

I finally got around to making a pannettone this year. I bought the baking tin about 10 years ago but kept thinking it would be incredibly h...

The shrouded accomplice to imagination Comes as spectre of our ghostly collaborations The emissary of fear reverses our intelligence ...

The days are ever renewed by small degrees and we shall say they are but the seasons. Short passages of changing wonder wrought by the w...

Though this is no new day I am made almost complete A dawn born without night Splendour has forsaken me You may turn your eyes aw...

A light I made for Christmas from a sheet of A3 matte photo paper which I made into a tube and then lit with battery lights. It's revers...

The new, unwelcome days ignite But always where there is loss New flowers will bloom the swifter In blossom enough to change hearts...

When iced breath of night is exhaled Clarity is spun coldly about living things Tis a seeing glass that wraps about growth To set i...

The brief tapestry of dusk Subsumes the last threads of cobalt And the day closes shut again Shadows run across desire The orange w...

The annual Christmas tree dressing is in full flow at the reservoir. Well I am not sure it is the right thing to do here, but it does no har...

Today I saw an old man; he looked a bit like me Or at least how I'll look, when I reach seventy three He was resting on a bench, so...

And so the story goes But not for the want of telling And the ice still grows Upon the dead of night Waiting for the sun To bre...

It must be Christmas soon; all the lights are out and switched on. Is there any shop out there that is not having a 'Black Friday' ...

Radical heads cleaved and conspirator hung From out of dark, tortured confession sung And never imagine our malice cannot return Th...

I need no longer hide in the world trembling Lest I am discovered and asked to participate Time has wrought this splendid thing upon me...

And what is made well; endures For we are not well provisioned And now merry is as merry will When our empty fields need no till Fo...

Some pictures from my walk around Entwistle reservoir the other day

Comes now the quiet time In this decay of illumination In the shrinking days We flee to our comforts To fires and hearty repast ...

Summery autumn is finally overcome The eastern winds and cold have won They take the days and shake the trees Conceal the birds and k...

A shadow has fallen upon us Naught can be made whole again Though I am forever undone No shadow will be upon you today And though...

This is the finest gold though perhaps you do not count it yet as a worthy treasure. Yet when the days fall into ruin and the sea rises abo...

It must be autumn as the Amanita muscaria , commonly known as the   fly   agaric  is growing in huge patches around Entwistle reservoir. ...

I think, therefore I am But if I would use flesh to live I become a thinking fiend And thinking makes untruths And I have thought...

Hollywood enters  Halloween Theatre meets its theurgy And tis a horror best left unseen For who can make such a fun Of these frig...

Time now becomes witness To a splendorous withering The flowers are all fading Desiccating as autumn leaves Naught can restore th...

The honey has dripped away Bitter is this winter to come The sharp days dull like pain Blur around a growing dark Beauty withdraw...

Rest now upon the ages Night has come For a child of the sun She withdraws her light That shone upon us all And our days shall...

These days come upon us wet A feral water crashing in fury Upon the tall, wooden cliffs Shore and tree line lock to furious battle ...

Granted it is a sharp barb, but no blade of dignity is this lesser part of courage we choose to call wit. It is the refuge of the scoundrel...

Today was made for the mer-people. Water swirls around my feet as though it would wish to make a fluid knot and slowly unbalance me; dra...

Some pictures of Kate and William in Manchester last week taken by Mike and others. She looks so different in the top and bottom pictures. ...

When I put the kitchen light on this morning, I could hear a tapping on the window. I opened the blind to see about thirty wasps flying aim...

It's a little early but i'll probably do another later. I made an animation to go along with it.  Shadow on ceiling, window a...

This folly, this whim, this optimism of day Till dusk when I settle still to fade and fall And so I lie, as the night flies soft abou...

The last new hornet queen leaves the nest to make her way into the autumn as two of the workers watch by the entrance. Vespa:   Well ...

But I could never forget you Like mist on a summer morning Softer than all my whispered lies Memories wreath my footfall And...