Cold Spring Wordle 106

And then came March,

cold and thinly veiled

with damp mist.

I saw the rare birds return

and shiver on the lines

waiting for Spring.

The harrowing began

Vast vistas of brown corduroy,

with egrets in the wake

of tractors, finding grubs.

The wind, a transparent knife

cut through to the marrow.

I guess this is either

climate change,

or Earth's oath to us

for borrowing her mantle

and wearing it too thin.

Thin, marrow, oath, borrow, saw, march, harrowing, guess, grubs, transparent, either, rare.

News from Nowhere - Wordle 105

I am hardening,

building up

a resilience to shock.

Every bomb

a conspiracy.

Every struggle

contrived.

My sympathies

are all spent.

I thrive on the promise

that the land provides

and under the shelter

of fig trees, newly leafed,

I feel joy and hope arise.

The nearest I get to war

is the fight against goats -

the infidels in my war of attrition.

And for now, there is peace.

They have been sold,

shipped off

to pastures new.

I replant and re-fence

in confidence.

(Shipped, against, shock, shelter, struggle, promise, thrive, infidels, harden, land, bomb, spent, resilience.)

Becoming One

There is unity
in the global village
that technology
creates.

I sit
cross-legged.
The mantra I sing
is one
that activates
love

I project myself
on an inquisitive
inter-stellar journey.
It's delicious.

It urges me further,
until I am one,
merged with the universe,
a smudge
on the big screen.
OM

Sing, technology, smudge, project, urge, unity, stellar, mantra, merge, inquisitive, activate, delicious

Wordle 102 Bits and Pieces

Staff of life

she said

as she broke the baguette

-

Stone the crows.

Watch them

caw and soar

-

Moon shine and music

set the mood.

Dawn breaks

-

Calls are free

if you are

telepathic

-

Written

but not spoken.

White noise

-

Peak rates

speak

of use

-

After the flood

what was there

but mud?

-

Petals open.

The jewel

revealed

-

Powders

with promise.

Anti-acid

-

Pit.

Spit it

out

-

Locks of hair

need

no key

-

Lost

but not

missed

(Staff, stone, moon, calls, written, peak, after, petals, powders, pit, locks, lost )

Forgotten Country

I stand by a tree in the playground

of a deserted primary school.

One of thousands that education emptied.

Contraception, emigration

left the land with a wound

that may never heal.

The sound of laughter

torn from the heart.

These thoughts jar.

I kick the sand on the path,

my mind stirred.

The sadness of desertion

cannot be disguised.

.

I walk, there is no hurry,

across the valley

where the barefoot children

of yesterday, ran,

thinking of the stories children made

dying in the mouths of those

who stayed.

(disguised, forgotten, country, hurry, tree, wound, mind, sand, stirred, jar, across, yesterday)

Day Dream Location (wordle 100)

At home on a hilltop,

far from any street,

I stretch my eyes

across blue distant

folding hills.

.

The buzzard circles and calls

and March lambs

run through young grass.

Faint voices drift up,

of neighbours

in the valley below.

I train my eyes on them.

They check their mail boxes

and share news.

Their words die

before they reach this height.

Master of my own reality,

I create their conversations

and day dream.

Change places?

Not I

In my home

in the sky.

(Change, faint, street, stretch, places, calls, march, train, create, words, die, master, share.)

Outside the Patisserie - Wordle 99

Every move tells a story

of habit and use.

It's written on the body.

Intimate, we think we know,

but from an outsider,

a video,

or through a window glancing,

the story we knotted together

or our self

unravels.

The paint, the wraps,

(the fearsome parts

we think we have

so cleverly disguised),

fall away

and there, in the reflection

of a shop window

we see our mother,

our father.

Our 'take' on life

uncovered, raw, shocking.

Deep down in our hearts

or handbags

we have reserves -

building blocks of ego.

It may be chocolate

or prayers.

Om mani padmi om.

Enter and buy

chocolate eclairs.

Paint, use, outsider, away, fearsome, part, reserves, body, intimate, written, window