by Valerie | Sep 23, 2017 | Cornwall, Rhyming Poetry, Story poems
I am meeting people for a short clifftop stroll. It’s wild. I’m windswept, watching waves roll in on the low-tide sun-soaked shore. Here come the ladies I’ve never met before. We walk for a bevy to a nearby caff getting to know each other, having a...
by Valerie | May 1, 2017 | Poetry, WritersDigest.com
Day 1 – Reminiscing Day 2 – Not Today Day 3 – ——– of Love Day 4 – Beginning and/or Ending Day 5 – An Element Poem Day 6 – Poem about a sound Day 7 – Discovery Day 8 – Panic Day 9 – So...
by Valerie | Feb 22, 2017 | Seasons
I moved from the midlands to live near the sea in my favourite county at sunny Newquay. It’s much warmer in the west but often windier and wetter, yet whatever the weather living here is much better. The wild winds that rage in from the sea and Cornish mists,...
by Valerie | Sep 6, 2016 | Creative Writing, Trois-par-Huit poetry
Spider’s web Dainty lace glistened across the space between my house and alfresco place. Waiting to wind around me with its sticky hair as I wander outside and through its deadly lair. But just before I stepped through the door a huge spider I saw in its jaw....
by Valerie | Aug 9, 2016 | Creative Writing, Rhyming Poetry
At last Summer days are here I go out to take the air but there is wildlife out there absolutely everywhere. I walk straight outside into webs that stick to me like glue and a snail I’ve just crushed too right there underneath my shoe. That scabby squashed slimy...
by Valerie | May 19, 2016 | Creative Writing, Proper Poetry
Spaghetti with bolognese So pleases my tum Minced beef with tinned tomatoes some veg and mushroom. Better the next day Left overs. Yum! I love a Cornish pasty Meat, potatoes, swede, all wrapped up in some pastry delicious indeed. I’d like another but...
Recent Comments