Tag: November

Milly Reynolds: ‘November Book Shelf Haul’ Video

Video: Short Walk along the River Glen

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Haiku: ‘O, November!’

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Drops on washing lines
Joyless British flags, hanging
Blackbird’s stark subsong

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What You Imagine, You Create — Meditations in Motion (Reblog)

Photo by Ivan Babydov on Pexels.com “What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” – Buddha We have been having a week of glorious Indian Summer. Golden sun-splashed days gently yield to balmy open-window nights this November. I sat on the deck one recent afternoon and listened to […]

What You Imagine, You Create — Meditations in Motion

‘Dallas In Queen’s English’

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Eleven
Twenty Two
Sixty Three

I think I recall
the BBC globe
in black and white,
a spinning duality.

The program inter-
ruption in Queen’s English
like a lightning strike;
Mother’s tears,
Dad’s ambivalence —
“Your blubbering
as if you knew him!”

What youngster could
comprehend?
Yet somehow I knew
a bright star had fallen
that November day

Copyright Francis Barker 2020

Poetics – Stoddard, Longfellow and Bryant say hello! (What does November mean to you?)