I love shuffling through the dead leaves that gather in clumps on pathways; the rustling is so soothing and it brings back memories of childhood when it was a forbidden pleasure because of the risk of dirtying new shoes. Now my adult foot revives those times - clad in my day-old purple footware. Purple? Oh yes - something else I could not have as they were unobtainable after the war. I just had to buy them now.
PS I did clean my shoes afterwards in case of ash disease.
The light-hearted comments on life and artistic efforts of a poet living in Monmouthshire a.k.a. Doc Barbara. All illustrations are copyright Barbara Daniels
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Monday, 15 October 2012
WRAPPED CUCUMBERS
Monday, 8 October 2012
FLU JAB
I LOVE having my flu jab and can't wait till tomorrow for it. I even like the process: the orderly long queue four-deep outside the surgery an hour early; the smell of antiseptic and the motherly face of the nurse whose expression says, unnecessarily in my case of course, "Come on, be brave!" Most of all I enjoy thinking of us as a band of soldiers fighting those horrid little viruses which plot to lay us low in our beds coughing and suffering. Swine flu, bird flu - I defy you and your works and hold out my arm in readiness.
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
FROM HAMLET
Wearing my other hat as a poet, I sometimes like to take a quotation and build on it. Here is a short one derived from Hamlet's teasing of Polonius about the shape of clouds:
SKY-GAZING
Methinks it is not like a weasel;
methinks that a cloud is a cloud.
Let poets, priests, lovers and madmen
deem that fell death be not proud
and declare he shall have no dominion.
Methinks that a shroud is a shroud.
For my analysis of the play, wearing yet another hat visit: http://www.classicsenglishliterature.com
SKY-GAZING
Methinks it is not like a weasel;
methinks that a cloud is a cloud.
Let poets, priests, lovers and madmen
deem that fell death be not proud
and declare he shall have no dominion.
Methinks that a shroud is a shroud.
For my analysis of the play, wearing yet another hat visit: http://www.classicsenglishliterature.com
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