The back side of a stormy squall line. Fragments of cloud bubbling off caught by the sun.

April showers

15th April 2026

#Photography

Remember, go on the B of the ban...Stop!
Come back
The sound of the gun not me saying the #word

Oh, OK

So
On your marks
Set
⚡🔫{CRACK!}

Why haven't you gone?

I didn't hear a bang I heard a crack.

Oh my G......
Right
We'll do it your way
Go on the C of the cra.. Stop!

#Vss365

Grief screams and then whispers
But each #word it whispers provides no comfort

#Vss365

The 4B pencil sky
Marks the mood
Fields as dead as ever they will be
A deceit of languid Lapwings lift and #loop
Wheeling a tight circle
Tricking the eye black then white
Then gone
As we drive on

#Vss365

#Haiku concentrate
From an ocean of #letters
Sea salt in summer

#Vss365

Big cloud April

13th April 2026

#Photography

Football training under a crepuscular sky

13th April 2026

#Photography

Home was a packing container
half buried
part crushed by a fallen building
#Water collected in the corrugations
and was channeled to a plastic tub by the door
This was our sole trusted source
for washing
for cooking
and after boiling
drinking
Times had changed considerably over the last year
#Vss365

🙂I'll get by thanks for caring

Thanks for reminding me........

Running up to the wood

12th April 2026

#Photography

Just about blooming bluebells
Barnsdale Woods

10th April 2026

#wildflowerhour #Photography

April thunder storm
#Water giving or taking
Compound element

#Vss365 #Haiku

Thank you 🙂

Joy would be limitless
Watching each flower open and pass into fruit
Seeing every drop of rain fall, bounce and #sink into the soil
But I've missed most
In fact all but a handful
So will you tell me of the beauty you've seen?
#Vss365

The kitchen Belfast #sink
A make do bathtub
Bare elbow tests water
Soft (relatively) flannel and soap at hand
To gently (relatively) swab away
The daily tears and grime
Replacing them with chuckles
To last the test of time
Two sets of eyes searching
Into each others souls
For all eternity
#vss365

First cup of tea
For comparison about the size of 0.00000012 Olympic swimming pools

Thank you 🙂

Wind whispering wheat
Where skylarks rose up to #sing
Lost echoes of spring

#Vss365 #Haiku

I #sing your dreams to shore
On winter evenings such as these
And share an endless moment
As we float along on windless seas
It fortifies eternal bonds
Which take us to that merging line
So that even when I am no more
This lullaby is yours and mine

#Vss365

Drax Power station pushing up water vapour from the cooling towers on the left with a wind turbine on the right. Both rising out of a yellow field of oil seed rape and set against a light blue sky

Past and future

10th April 2026

#Photography

Thank you 🙂

Thank you so much for reading and giving feedback 🙂

Thanks you for reading and replying 🙂

Repeated words usually stick out to me like a sore thumb but this can't have, so that's why it has remained I suppose.

Thanks for reading and giving the feedback 🙂

I often worry about repeated words, as if I must use something else.
It seems to happen when writing and then sharing the very next moment, not allowing myself time to go back read multiple times and edit. This piece I'd written a while ago and saw the #PoemsAbout prompt which I thought it fit.

A high speed train passing and in a window a face I think I recognise but it's gone and I need more time looking at it to find the name that might lurk in the basement of my mind I try to hold their image but the red clouded sunset was reflected in the window too reflecting from all the windows of the train and when the train was gone and I turn to see the beauty of that sky the now faint face is gently erased by the ever deeper crimsons until I only remember that there was an indistinct face among 600 which have just raced north

#PoemsAbout #EdgeOfKnowing

Lost Flashes of Insight

The tapping wakes you
Rat tat tat
Ratta tat tat
And through a gap in the vertical #blind
Summer morning light angles in
And the gleam from a magpies eye
Dagger beak pecking
Rat tat tat
Ratta tat tat
And as you look
You know
Today is meant for sorrow

#Vss365

Starlings sit on telephone wires next to a telegraph pole, all silhouetted against the darkening evening sky. In the previous photograph one of the birds is flying off to the right of the picture as though it is riding a wire.

Starlings on the wire

8th April 2026

#Birds #Photography