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Collectively Speaking

Posted on August 12, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

I’ve always loved collective nouns, they can be such fun, definitely worth making a poem out of them … COLLECTIVELY SPEAKING a gambol of dancers sends a poke of fencers past a staff of employees who gossip about an indecision … Continue reading →

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Going Shopping

Posted on August 5, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

So many of us have stayed away from stores for months that, when we get there, it’s become a real treat … GOING SHOPPING trawling for groceries                            collecting masked smiles kindness & directions between cans    packets before finding prunes cucumber … Continue reading →

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Fortified

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

I’ve posted an Adnomination before, where I take a morpheme (a root meaning that is shared by many words) and use it in multiple ways. Fun to do and, hopefully, fun to read. Here, as you’ll see I’ve use ‘for’ … Continue reading →

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Total Eclipse

Posted on July 22, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

I’m an avid moon-watcher, love to see it through the trees round our home, its changing position and light as the night rolls round (I’m a poor sleeper!) … TOTAL ECLIPSE the moon followed me home one night slipped each … Continue reading →

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3 Heron haiku

Posted on July 15, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

I love herons; they are so elegant. I love the way they stand in the shallows, or on banks, watching. Their slow flight, beautiful to see … blue heron hunched on a post The Thinker ***** boats keeled over on … Continue reading →

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Tired Language

Posted on July 8, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

Platitudes, clichés, banalities … they show up newspapers, magazine articles, and on the daily news, until I turn my hearing down and reach for strong words. Or just turn off altogether … TIRED LANGUAGE I deep-fry the alphabet                                        in pure … Continue reading →

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beach scene

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

It’s beach time, summer and the lazy days of sun and watching waves splash on sand. Time to swim or read or do absolutely nothing and all of it outside, as long as it doesn’t rain … BEACH SCENE (chain … Continue reading →

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Drop Scones

Posted on June 24, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

The fun of baking with Grandmother or her sister, the watching, stirring, smelling, tasting … Such good memories … DROP SCONES     (Triolet)                                      the recipe came from Great Aunt Bee who added things while I stirred as a four-year-old at … Continue reading →

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Night at Sea

Posted on June 17, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

What can happen when you’re sailing at night and the wind goes from North to South, skies dark. And yes, this actually happened … NIGHT AT SEA wind changed anchor dragged   twice brought seaweed to the surface                with a lee … Continue reading →

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Lexical

Posted on June 10, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

Dictionaries are always useful, good browsing material too. And, just sometimes, worth playing word-games with … LEXICAL  (acrostic) discovering                                        ideologies closeted tidily or inserted oddly with notions arbitrarily regularly yoked A A ‘A Bedroom of Searchlights’: poetry. This collection draws … Continue reading →

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