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 | 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 15, 2016 | Jezebel and Myschka, Lexy, Rhyming Poetry
Jezzie’s apple tree is in full bloom again this year. What a shame that she is no longer here to walk me to the tree each day and stop to enjoy the windfall apples the tree will drop. I remember how she used to drag me on to see if there were some apples...
by Valerie | Mar 16, 2016 | Cornwall, Rhyming Poetry, Seasons
I must go back to Cornwall again at least one more time before I die and all I ask is a sunshine, not rain, on my walks for my dog and I. I must go back to Cornwall if I may: to eat fish and chips by the sea or a Cornish pasty every day and at least one cream tea. I...
by Valerie | Feb 7, 2016 | Comic Verse, Creative Writing, Rhyming Poetry, WritersDigest.com
I was planning in anticipation of our group’s annual vacation in a Cornish coastal location, with the obvious expectation, of getting some precipitation. We had in our imagination our perfect accommodation: not too far from civilization, with internet...
by Valerie | May 22, 2015 | Creative Writing, Rhyming Poetry
The postman called todaywith something wrapped in blueI wondered whether itcould have been sent by you.I couldn’t wait to seewhat was inside the boxbut when I opened itthere was a pair of sockswith a notelet that read”Wear these and think of meand then...
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