My poem 'Theriac' in Southword 27 (2015)

It strikes me that @thekatemulgrew.bsky.social and @jerilryan.bsky.social are a pretty kickass combo for #InternationalWomensDay

#wildflowerhour here in the Eden Valley, Cumbria, yesterday morning

fog on the low field flowers of the sheep’s slow breath becoming blackthorn

river bend— a floating leaf changes countries #haiku #poetry

My dad used to tell my siblings and me that his favorite sound was silence. I get it now. In the midst of the chaos, in the midst of the turmoil of life in this world and in this head, I sometimes need to remind myself to actively seek silence, and the sounds it lets in.

I nearly switched Star Trek Academy off during the first episode. But I'm glad I persisted and got through to the rest of it. It's had me in actual tears TWICE now.

A shepherd boy walks away from an unexploded Iranian projectile that landed in an open field in the outskirts of Qamishli, eastern Syria on Wednesday 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘈𝘗 𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰/𝘉𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘬𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘥

Reading 8th Century Chinese scholar Lu Yu wax lyrical about making tea theherbfarm.co.uk #poetry #chinese #tea

Some exotic looking dog #lichen in Caldbeck, Cumbria

geese migrating unchallenged #DailyHaikuPrompt

mewing cat peers in the window morning dew

a pheasant cries in the temple room's dead center Kobayashi Issa (1762-1826) #haiku #micropoetry Tr. David G. Lanoue Date of #poem: 1818

enigma my ship's long silence since the moon tranquillitatis ship's whispered mantra echoes when she thinks I sleep sussurant vents and drives and pipes tell me hush #ScifaikuSaturday (enigma) #DailyHaikuPrompt (tranquil)

that timid child stuck in a book — grows bolder with each new chapter #vss365 #SenryuSunday #sunday

"Divine laws are simpler than human ones, which is why it takes a lifetime to be able to understand them. Only love can understand them. Only love can interpret these words as they were meant to be interpreted." — Captain Benjamin freekin' Sisko 🖖

The talkative steam of cup warming to the task, its mouth breathing ghosts. #poemsabout #mouths @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

A dream of the hills, bursting into leaf: trees like bamboo, vast in the mountains; flowers of white rose, the waking mist: cha, jia, she, ming, chuan — it is called tea upon the slopes. theherbfarm.co.uk/product/the-way-of-tea-a-new-translation-of-the-classic-of-tea-by-john-north-1 #poetry

Another early morning wee small hours before dawn thought: I've come to think of God as a heart. A beautiful, leafy heart, gently beating — the way a canopy seems to breathe, a green lung in a summer wind so light you can barely tell it apart from the feeling on your skin of simply existing. 💚

I've often thought the practice of seeking to write poetry leads eventually to prayer. And that the practice of seeking to pray leads eventually to Lao Tzu. And I suppose then one stops seeking. And starts writing poetry.

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A dream of the hills, bursting into leaf: trees like bamboo, vast in the mountains; flowers of white rose, the waking mist: cha, jia, she, ming, chuan — it is called tea upon the slopes. theherbfarm.co.uk/product/the-way-of-tea-a-new-translation-of-the-classic-of-tea-by-john-north-1 #poetry

the person who picked this mandarin orange -- how much did they earn? #senryu #haiga ##shahai

#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #EastCoastKin the last hibiscus folding into itself September moon

blackthorn-blossom snow in the last days of winter gleams off the crow’s eye

Plum cherry after the rains #flowers #photography #art #bloomscroll

Porridge oats. The cure for all ailments — mental, physical and emotional. And in my case gluten free. Praise the Lord for porridge!

Holding dark dry earth and the sudden stink of horse — ashwagandha root. #haiku

I 💚 Lemon balm!

Nettle stings, Nettle tea, Romans & Urtication. #gardening #seasonalliving #wildplants #romans #cumbria

rain in sunlight— a footprint fills #haiku #poetry

The Herb Farm Press is running a SPRING HAIKU COMPETITION! The top three #haiku will be chosen as winners, announced and shared on Friday 20th March (Spring Equinox) and each winning writer can choose a Herb Farm tea of their choice! Find out more here: theherbfarm.co.uk/page/the-her...

The Herb Farm Press is running a SPRING HAIKU COMPETITION! The top three #haiku will be chosen as winners, announced and shared on Friday 20th March (Spring Equinox) and each winning writer can choose a Herb Farm tea of their choice! Find out more here: theherbfarm.co.uk/page/the-her...

Nettle stings, Nettle tea, Romans & Urtication. #gardening #seasonalliving #wildplants #romans #cumbria

Another early morning wee small hours before dawn thought: I've come to think of God as a heart. A beautiful, leafy heart, gently beating — the way a canopy seems to breathe, a green lung in a summer wind so light you can barely tell it apart from the feeling on your skin of simply existing. 💚

I've often thought the practice of seeking to write poetry leads eventually to prayer. And that the practice of seeking to pray leads eventually to Lao Tzu. And I suppose then one stops seeking. And starts writing poetry.

My wife and I's book for children is on Amazon! It uses familiar Cumbrian places and animals to tell a story about environmental destruction, sadness and hope. amzn.eu/d/08BCapiS

The talkative steam of cup warming to the task, its mouth breathing ghosts. #poemsabout #mouths @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

tethered to the sky the pulse you heard before birth beats in you always

A belated Happy New Year — and perhaps a more seasonally apt one, with early February and the lunar new year close at hand

I recently designed 3 tea blends for a private spa. They specialise in TCM and seem really serious about herbs and teas! We've hand-packed 360 teabags this week. One of the blends was pretty ambitious with five ingredients. Here's four of them; there's two in each bowl. Can you guess what they are?

Statue of Ieyasu Tokugawa in Nikko, Tochigi prefecture, Japan. Photographer Bernard Languillier of Flickr. Ieyasu Tokugawa was the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Holding dark dry earth and the sudden stink of horse — ashwagandha root. #haiku

I've been blending herbs and teas for about a decade. In December I started to share them with the world! You can check out what I do at theherbfarm.co.uk

Ewe looking at us? Because we’re definitely looking at ewe..

I recently designed 3 tea blends for a private spa. They specialise in TCM and seem really serious about herbs and teas! We've hand-packed 360 teabags this week. One of the blends was pretty ambitious with five ingredients. Here's four of them; there's two in each bowl. Can you guess what they are?

My wife and I's book for children is on Amazon! It uses familiar Cumbrian places and animals to tell a story about environmental destruction, sadness and hope. amzn.eu/d/08BCapiS

A belated Happy New Year — and perhaps a more seasonally apt one, with early February and the lunar new year close at hand