Tag: Writing
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More than a Spring in the step!
I’m STILL getting over my cold, but feel a thousand per cent better than I did yesterday. The cold is still there, however, so after this has been typed up and sent out into Blogland, I shall once again be curling up beneath my duvet and drifting gently off to the Land of Nod, before…
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Wednesday Wordle: Cold’s Embers
The siren in my head has gone, Just a fragment of the cold remains In the wreckage of my aching body. Eyes swollen with salty tears Still leak for now. And only for now. I’m still suffering from a cold at present, but nowhere near as bad as the past few days. I’m slowly getting…
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Ode to a Cold
Thou blight me with thy rasping throat Running eyes and deepened croak Leaking face and aching arms And others of thy wondrous charms A cough that starts and doesn’t stop A sneeze! A sneeze! A sneeze and hop! A stinging eye in a shade of red An insatiable yearning to go to bed. Thou blight…
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Wordle: Cult
“Follow my vision; follow the light!” Bellowed the prophet on stage that night I’d watched him climb from a pit of fire And saw him float higher and higher “Look at me; resist the sin! Come! Follow me. Give in. Give in!” The crowd around me looked on and cheered The man on stage looked…
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Wednesday Wordle: Battle Scars
Drums beat along the graveside Shattering the peace of the night Strips of flag, torn, show battle signs Yet those gathered hold on tight