Shirley Baker. Hulme Manchester. 1965. Before concrete flats replaced back-to-back terraces, and pavement games were banished to ‘streets in the sky’.

My book of poems written as a weekly display sheet while I was Poet in Residence at Surfside café Rotherslade bay, Gower is now available as paperback: Kindle £2 paperback £6 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H3VT7VRM

In matters of Faith, Wonder, and Goodness, recalling how they manifest in the simplicity of a child is often all that we need in order to revive a doubtful heart. 🎨 Ludwig Knaus (1857)

seaside table~ the sugar packet takes flight

low water at Mumbles tell me your answer do

Every Thursday we have authentic Japanese tea class in my tea house. I have been studying tea for 19 years. Every week we choose a scroll with a zen saying and pick fresh flowers for the tokonoma the sacred space. We share sweets and learn to make a bowl of tea for guests. It expands our awareness.

Poem for your Thursday ~ Dr. Maya C. Popa Reprise —You were a child, and I will never have a child with you, that wasted tenderness where might have lived a world. On earth, it will matter little that we met, our days like rivers at the mouth of a sea so cold, so quiet, so blue.

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@ignorantfairy.bsky.social Matthias ~ thank you for the repost about my cafe poem book ~ Jim

My book of poems written as a weekly display sheet while I was Poet in Residence at Surfside café Rotherslade bay, Gower is now available as paperback: Kindle £2 paperback £6 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H3VT7VRM

@joypops.bsky.social Tanja ~ thank you for the repost about me book ~ Jim

Driftwood on a Lake Superior beach

I’ve started using poems to comment on articles in The Times

#writingcommunity #poetry #blueskypoets #poem

@liamcarson.bsky.social Liam ~ would love it if you followed me? No probs if not ~ Jim

@hughsviewsandnews.com Hugh ~ thank you for the repost ~ Jim

My new book of poems written when I was poet in residence at Surfside cafe Rotherslade, Gower ~ one sheet of new poems was displayed each week for one year ~ just £2 on kindle www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H3TR2844

after my swim ~ so beautiful Langland

Swim time at the (windy) oasis

a cliché beat a rhyme to death take that! and that! oyoguhito #haiku haikueye.blogspot.com

after swopping seats with my dear pussy cat i have to swop back oyoguhito #haiku #cat haikueye.blogspot.com

Lucio Fontana / Spatial Concept, 1952

a fast sky

Sue’s swimming spot in Stavanger

Pavements #poetrychallenge

‘The face doesn’t move’: Hollywood’s obsession with cosmetic surgeries has led to stiffer looks – and performances

Bore da! A lovely look at Limeslade, Gower when Welsh Water hadn't discharged a load of sewage into it, as they did yesterday 😣 Have a good day, folks ☕️🌼🌱

half way through the housework i take a nap oyoguhito #haiku haikueye.blogspot.com

In I go

everyday epic, such a beautiful poem... your lines do open more than one memory path, thank you!!!

aw, look at that! a ladybug choosing my sleeve #haiku

green balcony~ my basil and i doing splendidly #haiku

nothing knows itself, forgiving all short lapses, with a silent laugh

@janpsolivagant.bsky.social this was a great prompt that took me right back to going with my dad to pick up his new retirement car. 16 years on I still have him, even though I no longer have my dad. #PromptCombo #MaidenVoyage #Poetry

a cold, fading scar, born from a forgotten day, distant origin #BSPP54 #distantorigin #haiku #writing #micropoetry

delivered

Lobelia has washed her hair

Elizabeth Osmond’s Hatchery is brilliant and beautiful, combining medical expertise (Osmond is a neonatal consultant) and fascinating insights into the history of obstetrics with care and sensitivity in their purest forms. A very impressive debut. @bethosmond.bsky.social @vpresslit.bsky.social

I’m delighted to learn that this poem placed second in The Haiku Foundation Monthly Kukai for May, with the theme of ‘Bronze’. Thanks so much to Editor Tom Borkowski, and a special thanks to anyone who may have voted for this piece. 😊 thehaikufoundation.org/thf-monthly-...

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... A fabulous documentary

Jim I just love your poetry. The underlying humour in this is just brilliant. I saw a painting once of a group of women mourning as their men went out to sea and it reminds me of this ❤️❤️❤️

from my archive

Wow! Would you look at this Photographer William Albert Allard Cloud 9 Bar Elko, Nevada, 1979. Details in ALT.

The bee’s knees

@janpsolivagant.bsky.social Hi Jan ~ here is my poem for #PromptCombo #MaidenVoyage Jim

(notes) Elanji flowers dot the gravel path; a crow climbs the sky. It is mating season for the peafowl. Small brown grasshoppers appear. We sit together in the long afternoon. The air is close. In the quiet room our tongues carve words.

even the stone wall softened by tiny seedlings #haiku