Ice (first published on Turquoise Monster) At the beginning we were like snow flakes Elegant and bueatiful Slowely drifting through the sky We landed on the ground Blanketing all in pure white Rainbows glinted off of us But then we lay and they trod upon is Changing us into dirty slush Dangerous, slippery A trap […]
By the Severn turns of Hell how did I end up here? There is no way I can survive this, just no way, I’m gripping a slimy moss covered rock with precarious footing at the top of a white water channel with a rather nasty drop below into a plunge pull of jagged rocks! Eeek […]
Blight (first published on Blue Monster) The Blight struck due to it being the wettest August since 1912 and the young family surveyed their crops. The potatoes had gone first, the leaves mottled and dying with the fungus underneath. They had not taken heed of the warning due to the fact they were already plagued […]
Spirally shells (first published on Blue Monster) Deep in the mists of time lay the ammonites. These creatures swam or more accurately propelled themselves through a primordial time. Related to the modern day squid they were and they roamed, thinking little cephalopod thoughts. Then wham bam mass extinction and bye bye little ammonites and bye […]
When Aeolus was a young man, a real young man and not just the apparent youth he could always appear as, he decided to tour the lands and seas and heavens and deeps to see what was out there. He placed an opalescent cape around his shoulders, his blue eyes glinting to match the sapphire […]
The Cactus (First published on Turquoise Monster) In the desert at night it is cold Ice in the crevices The sky is clear and dark Stars shine there How do you see them? For me time moves faster I live longer It is relative My stars are streaks I live in a blurred circle of […]
Salty Solitude (First published on Turquoise Monster) Footprints in a ribbon’s stream Beads upon a string Minute leaves upon a stem They were made By a pachyderm Lifeless land this salt plain Giant evaporation pans Leaving just salt Where once sea Now desert Shimmers in reflected heat Nothing but the footprints Alone in the heat […]
My ensuing death (first published on Turquoise Monster) My ensuing death Barks at my heels Demarnding to go for walks Asking for water With languid eyes My ensuing death Packs itself neatly Into my luguage Hoping to holiday In the sun My ensuing death Follows me to the bath Popping the bubbles Leaving a hard […]
Why they did it I do know but the weather war was very one sided, some said it was fear of immigration others a jealousy of resources. What ever the reason I grew up in a snow dome in a remnant of the peoples of Europe. Life was hard in the domes but I knew […]
Fluffy Butterflies (first published on Blue Monster) A pet hate of mine is fluffy butterflies, whatever possessed anyone in their right mind to make fluffy butterflies? Do these flying insects in the natural world have a coating of fur like mammalians? I think not, nor do they come in such lurid shades of purple and […]