In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, No Thanks

Visitors from the stars
Passing by
Would be appalled
And leave well alone
Abandon us
As the hopeless savages we are

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Places

The forest
Is always calling
Deep in my heart
The scent of fern and bark
Takes me back
To where I belong

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Back to the Future

I whispered through a wormhole
Sending back words
Of wisdom to myself
Be braver – I said.
Take risks – have more confidence
Avoid this safe, stable life I look back on

It must have worked
Now, I rule the world with terror

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, First light

I awoke
I remembered my dream
My oldest friend
And I
On holiday
On a strange island
We were going glassblowing
He dashed ahead
I lost him
I panicked

I know dreams don’t really mean anything – but this surely means my dreaming mind is more creative than my waking one.

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Comedy of Errors

It’s 2022
It’s true
But still
There’s a madman
With his finger on the button

Our zenith has passed
We missed the chance
To progress beyond
Our nature

OK – nothing to do with the prompt really – apart from that’s all that came to mind when I read it.

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Happy ever after

Happy ever after?
We all know
This is consigned to fairy tales
Why
In this century
Are we still driven by greed
To war?

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Buffalo Nickel

I found a coin
From 2007
I was newly married
Brown was a new PM
Helicopters and coaches crashed
Here and there
I started a new job
We were still in Europe

We didn’t know the joys
And the horrors to come
In the next 15 years

By the end of the next 15
I should be retired
What will happen between now
And then

What were you doing in 2007?

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Mentors

The Swan glided by
Remembering
Its days as a cygnet
Mesmerised by its mentors

Now it knew
Their lessons were empty
Now he chose
His mentors more wisely

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Proud

I have been proud
Recently
My colleagues, friends, loved ones
Told me 
Well done
I swelled
Ah
I am easily led
To that fall

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Cupid’s Arrow

Through glass doors, I saw your eyes
They struck me that very first time
And as you waited, I felt surprise
And bells began to chime
I had been resigned until that day
To accept a single life
Now it seemed I must find a way
To make this girl my wife
I opened up those doors that day
And let you in my life

You sashayed by in your silky skirt
More than my heart arose
I wondered if would just be hurt
If this road I chose
History did not promise much
My track record did not shine
But your perfection I longed to touch
Could it be that you’d be mine?
To the smallest hope, I would clutch
And revelled in your shine

Your beauty, your smile they stole my heart
I longed to hold you near
To be your friend was a shaky start
Al least I could be near
Until that day we made took the leap
We became more than friends
Then my heart was forever deep
With a love that never ends
And though age and time forever creep
This love still never ends

Your ever happy shining heart
Lights my life through every waking hour
You are a living work of art
A beauty like a flower
You stir my lust, you stir my love
You want to make me grow
You are sunshine from above
A perfect warming glow
You are my hope bringing dove
May your light forever flow

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Shoulda, coulda, woulda

Shoulda done more
Coulda done more
Would have done more
But
There was this
And there was that
We did our best
Under the circumstances
We did
Better than them
Better than we thought
So
We apologise
For the Earth we left you
We enjoyed it while we could
So now you can’t

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, All about you

I can’t contain my dreams
So I write
I can’t speak with eloquence
So I write
I cannot fly
So I write
I cannot stand and fight
So I write
I cannot remember
So I write
I cannot still my fears
So I write

There is so much to dream for
So many arguments to win
So much to fly from
So much to fight against
So many memories to cherish
So much to fear

So
I write

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Whoa

Ballons in a duvet
An attack on the Martian Embassy
Women in bras jogging
In the moonlight
A car overturned
Sneaking through
The grounds on MI5
Wouldn’t you like to know….

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Childhood revisited

Don’t be so afraid child
Fear will stifle you
Fear will cage you in
Nothing is as bad
As you fear
So live
Smile
And savour passion

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Karma Chameleon

The sins I must have committed
To deserve my luck
I hope I enjoyed them

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Right to Health

Can we call ourselves civilised?
If we do not care
For every last person
Who needs it

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Call me maybe

A phone
Is a clock
A calculator
A camera
A notebook
A console
A radio
A TV
A movie screen
A book
An encyclopedia
A chain
A cage

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes 

Green and quiet
With a gentle breeze
Sunlight warming
A cool drink
Solitude
Then I am ready

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Writing room  

Green and quiet
With a gentle breeze
Sunlight warming
A cool drink
Solitude
Then I am ready

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Flangiprop! 

Flangiprop: Iscis tulartart

Iscis tulartart
Savvy savvy sah
Holah iniquit
Everar tala

Notah

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Burnt

Ashes
to
Ashes