Bloganuary today asks us to recall our earliest memory. This is a tough one because it is challenging to unravel the faculties with which I recall my early days. My cognitive function can regale you with stories of others’ memories of my first years. Some old Brownie snapshots have captured one or two images ofContinue reading “Try to Remember”
Category Archives: Personal
An Ode to Courage
Bloganuary, to which I have sold my soul for a month, asks today’s audacious question, “How are you brave?” In keeping with my primary goal of messing around with some words, let me offer a limerick: Image by 0fjd125gk87 from Pixabay One day a pilgrim did wonderIf writing poetry would just be a blunderSo heContinue reading “An Ode to Courage”
Let’s try a Sonnet
When one feels the urge to writeYet thoughts refuse to formAnd sense retires in spite,One takes such as the normAnd lifts the pen in hopeOf catching what flies byWhile making wide one’s scopeAnd snaring what is nigh. And so a poem is bornRaw and gasping for airLying lost and forlornSeeking to avoid despairBut now it’sContinue reading “Let’s try a Sonnet”
A 2022 Tanka
Last day of old yearDawns with tired resignationHolding her dry breath –Desiring the calendar to turn a shiny new page. Image by NoName_13 from PixabayA tanka is an ancient form of Japanese poem – the first two lines describe an experience; the third is a kind of pivot that leads into the last two linesContinue reading “A 2022 Tanka”
Listening to the Voice
You’re the voice, try and understand itMake a noise and make it clear, oh, woah– John Farhham Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says a referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament will be held before December 2023.– ABC News Image by Thomas Wolter from Pixabay A friend observed that there’s not much point to a VoiceContinue reading “Listening to the Voice”
Prodding the Muse
An urge to scrawlCalls from deep withinRiding waves of ennuiOver the will to begin!Something stirsThrough my fog ofIndolenceCarpe Diem! Speaking in HaikusTo the one who sleeps and dreams Prodding the poet CinquainPrecise, disciplinedChallenging, digging, questingPulsing, poetic, pulchritudinous, promiseElucidation DiamanteIce-cold sharpSparkles entices attractsCarbon baseball jewel caratShapes cuts slicesClear lucidGem A couplet to awaken the poetWho isContinue reading “Prodding the Muse”
Blogging about this Blog
Image by Sophie Janotta from Pixabay That lull in the lazy week between Christmas and New Year invites a somewhat indolent review about all sorts of things – including this blog’s “on again/off again” appearance. I’ve just finished messing with some WordPress themes to sharpen its look. I’m still faced with the question “What isContinue reading “Blogging about this Blog”
Advent Gifts Unwrapped – foreboding joy
Well, there they are – Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love!Perhaps the most challenging has been Joy, associated yesterday with the Gospel of Matthew’s focus on troubled Joseph’s angelic visitation commanding him to proceed with his betrothal to the strangely pregnant Mary. Thus the introduction of Brené Brown’s phrase “foreboding joy” – the sense that yes,Continue reading “Advent Gifts Unwrapped – foreboding joy”
COVID – the second journey
Half-way through self-enforced isolation, this is proving a more interesting journey than the first (about nine months ago). More aches, more sleep, more sookiness. But today seems to be turning a corner – energy returning, focus longer lasting, aches subsiding. Glad I qualified for the antivirals – they’ve certainly kicked in. What might a suitableContinue reading “COVID – the second journey”
The Great Chip Famine
Local media is leading a lament on the scarcity of chips. WA pubs can no longer guarantee these sides with the Parmy this side of Christmas. Massive floods and a broken supply line in the East have dried up the supply of potatoes – so chips and crisps are off the menu. (Mind you, bareContinue reading “The Great Chip Famine”
Wondering Pilgrim 