Say ‘lines’ and I think washing line and lines on my face. Say ‘lines’ to my six year old and she says – ‘They’re everywhere Mummy! Everything has a line!’ I think, ‘Thick and thin, zig-zags, straight and curved.’ Lines drawn on paper and etched in the sand. Lines painted on the grass, to mark […]
Lyrical Sunday
Lyrical Sunday: Memory
We can’t have the happy, without the sad, The interaction of yin and yang. The merge of hearts and the touch of hands, Together – now apart – leaving a pang. The memory – of a summer spent playing, Long, lingering nights and days to create. The love of family, brought close together, Often reliant […]
Lyrical Words on a Tuesday
‘Lyrical Sunday‘ theme is ‘Words’ over at Latte Junkie’s blog this week. As inspiration she included this powerful video, which really took my breath away for a moment (and left me wordless): How to follow that?! Ah well I’m a good sport damn it, and my brain needs a workout, so here goes… Words are […]
‘Energy’ for Week 32 of Inspiration Weekly (formerly Lyrical Sunday)
At the beginning of 2011 Charlotte came up with the idea of setting a theme once a week and writing a poem on it. It’s amazing to look back on all the poetry and inspiration that’s been produced in the past weeks (particular thanks to Cyndi, from Latte Junkie, for her amazing contributions, to Jen […]
The SHAPE of Death: Lyrical Sunday
My daughter Charlotte challenged me to use ‘shapes’ as inspiration for Lyrical Sunday this week. I’m linking up here (where she’s written a fun Haiku). If you’d like to join in too then please do! My poem is also a Haiku and I’ve met the challenge of using ‘shapes’ to inspire me, but my poem is […]
Week 31 Lyrical Sunday: Shapes
Welcome to week 31 of Lyrical Sunday! Charlotte has come up with the theme of ‘Shapes‘ and to inspire us to get writing she has written a ‘Haiku’ inspired by shapes on her blog, which is also here for you to read: Circus of Circles Rolling tumbling The circus circles are here They’ve bounced all […]
Underground
My skin in rubber I entered the cave. I waded through water, thinking, ‘Be Brave’. The air without motion, no day or night. I would have felt terrified without a light. Our confident guide led us on with wit, His office had no chairs in which to sit. Instead, I positioned my derriere In a […]
Lyrical Sunday & Haere Ra to Happy Feet
We didn’t set a theme for Lyrical Sunday this week, but Charlotte and I did write a little poetry – in honour of our webbed footed friend who travels home to the sub-Antarctic tomorrow. The Dominion Post and Wellington Zoo ran a poetry competition this week (read the winning entries here), dedicated to the Emperor […]
Diamante Wind to Calm
It’s been a blustering, wild week of weather in Wellington. After a relatively mild autumn and winter, with plenty of sunshine days, it was an extreme shock to the system to be faced with a week of a snow, sleet, hail, thunder, lightening, torrential rain and howling gales. At first it was exciting, but as […]
Theme for Week 28 Lyrical Sunday: Diamantes
In case you missed it – it’s been snowing in Wellington (see here and here)! This has led us to some snow-flake activities at home and the idea of writing a shapely poem that would fit on a snowflake, which we could hang as a piece of art, for week 28 of Lyrical Sunday. Visit […]
‘B’ poems for Lyrical Sunday
A lovely poem from Grandma too… “The beautiful bond of love that binds us together Is like a band of gold that cannot be broken.” __________________________________________________ Welcome to Week 27 of Lyrical Sunday with the theme of ‘B’. If you’d like to join in then please link up below. The link-up will remain open all […]
Theme for Week 27 Lyrical Sunday: Poems starting with ‘B’
This week we’re thinking of things starting with the letter ‘B’ for Week 27 of Lyrical Sunday. The theme was originally going to be ‘Beauty’ and here in our little ‘bubble’ of life in New Zealand there is much of beauty to write about this week, but my heart is aching with sadness for the […]
The Tongariro Crossing: A Poem
The theme for Lyrical Sunday (running all this week till 14 August) is ‘Adventure‘ and Grandma sent through a beautiful poem about the time she walked ‘The Tongariro Crossing‘ in New Zealand with Granddad… (Happy 41st Wedding Anniversary to them too!). x The Tongariro Crossing One day in the year 2008 An 8-hour walk. We […]
We’re going on an ADVENTURE for Week 26 of Lyrical Sunday!
Adventure at sunset As the sun sets, we climb over the rocks, very carefully, making sure we don’t fall. We see some art on the rocks. What a surprise! We walk on, hoping the waves won’t splash us. Mummy doesn’t think we’ll make it to the next bay, but I do. We keep going and… […]