metaphors

As attentive as …

If you’ve been in the sights of a heron’s alert and beady gaze, as he picks his way delicately through...

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poetry mojo, writing & writers

Being never wholly so

This line from a poem concerns being and being written or heard about.  If it isn't written (and presumably, read)...

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metaphors

Creased with grief

May your face, and those of people you love, never be creased into grief-maps.   What a vivid image of...

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put in a good word

Throstle

An old fashioned term for a song-thrush; a machine for continuously spinning cotton or wool.

‘No longer my sweet throstle,...

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put in a good word

Jouncing

Jolting or bouncing, an apparently neat melding of both words.

‘Glaring at me staring at him / jouncing on her...

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metaphors

Naked

From a tender children’s book, reinventing Vivaldi’s school for girl musicians, one of whom was named in a register and...

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a quote to note

Where gannets swoop and rise

In the countdown to a major gift-giving season, I liked this ancient reference to a human presents. May you give and...

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metaphors

Rain

You can feel this rain steadily, gently, saturating the ground. ‘Rain as fine as stitching, petit point, silk samplers.’

Source: Kevin...

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a quote to note

Joys unsung and untold

At winter's advent, a reminder of its beauty and magic.  May you be safe and warm within the stronghold. 

For...

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triologisms

String-thin paths

A knife-edge precarity in this phrase.  May your paths be broad and sure!

Source: Beowulf, Kevin Crossley-Holland, illus. by Charles Keeping (Oxford...

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put in a good word

Scramasax

A large knife with a single-edged blade, found among Anglo-Saxon grave goods, used for hunting and fighting.

‘I’ve heard of...

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poetry mojo, writing & writers

Something more pressing

Yes, you can find a thousand things more urgent than writing, or at least more insistent. Writing for this...

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