30.1.12

24.1.12

Night sounds

Through open windows
night sounds darken the writers'
imaginations

or

Through open windows
night sounds infiltrate writers'
creative musings

Which do you like better?

21.1.12

Memories fade as does the light...

The world's grey again
Pain and pleasure enliven
Memories remind


Though if the weather was bad on Saturday, 7th May last year, it's certainly no picnic this week...

18.1.12

Have I Got Nudes for You...

Well, it would be if the BBC's Have I Got News For You focused on the contents of the Red Top tabloids only. 


And talking of celeb-wenches:

Louise Bagshawe
wrote Chick-Literature.
Her Starbucks quip as MP Louise Mensch
caused Hislop to start with a wrench


or do you prefer


Louise Bagshawe
thought Chick-Lit a chore.
Her Starbucks quip as MP Louise Mensch
caused Hislop to start with a wrench

17.1.12

Gelding the gift horse

Michael Morpurgo
Family Motto: "Incognito sum ergo"
Told he Spielberg "No horse play,
or no Best Director Oscar day"?

15.1.12

The former Prime Minister

Sans office trappings
Frail humanity restored
The Iron Lady


Composed after viewing the film at the Little Theatre, Bath. Excellent performance by Olivia Colman; good screenplay by Abi Morgan.

13.1.12

The price of everything; the value of...

Margaret Roberts
knew the price of butter hurts
as a grocer's daughter;
Grocer Heath should've oughta.




On seeing The Iron Lady at the Little Theatre, Bath.

7.1.12

Winter draws on...

Freezing half dreaming
A black dog's snout lain on chest
Chill wells from the heart

6.1.12

Earthflight Afric

Caustic Afric lake
Florid flamingos feeding
Fish-eyed fish eagle


On first viewing of the incredible BBC natural history series viewing the world almost through the eyes of birds.

5.1.12

Chizz Chizz



Ronald Searle's
girls are black pearls.
Any fule kno
Molesworth's not.


or


Ronald Searle's
girls are black pearls.
Any fule kno BLOT
Molesworth's not.






On the death of that superb cartoonist who gave us St Trinian's and Nigel Molesworth. 
Which version do you prefer?

4.1.12

Of great Welshmen...



Under milk would it
curdle; hear Dylan's hurdle
D.T. spoke no Welsh




On re-reading (the preface to) a certain Play for Voices from 1956.

3.1.12

Lambridge too far



Where once children play'd
Bonsai Niagara falls
gentle Lambrook roars




looking out on the wild torrents replacing the normally placid Lam brook as it carries the rain from the Cotswolds to the Avon. Happy New Year, 2012, from Lambridge.