#Worldteachersday #Poem Dad was a teacher Loved his maths Loved his kids Loved the paths Used weekly for cross country runs Wasn't just About the sums Dad was a teacher 1/4

A hazy moon waxing behind the storms veil October 4th 2025 #Photography

The wind and last light paint with an Oaks branches and leaves October 4th 2025 #Stormhour #Photography

Each lap Digging out an unsustainable pace Breathing becoming ragged Legs increasingly leaden And the #elastic Holding them to the group stretches Until it inevitably snaps Whiplash And now it's survival It never really was racing #Vss365

Silk button galls on a wind blown Oak leaf October 4th 2025 #Photography

The Geminids rain Down from the frostbitten sky Racing to their end #Dailyhaikuprompt frost

Nigel's publisher really didn't do much in the way of research before putting his autobiography "My Struggles" into print. Thankfully as soon as the issue was raised it didn't take them long to make the decision to #Pulp the lot, saving us common people from its horrors. #Vss365

Warm sands tend to cool Ripened dates fall through midnight At the #oasis #Vss365 #Haiku

The old man's eyes glisten with regret I miss my brother a lot The Curlew call all mournful or hopeful? The light staccato between passing trees Missed conversations never will be shared At least I know you knew I cared The old man's eyes glisten yet Thoughts #blur I miss my brother a lot #Vss365

It's always there even when clouds get in the way September 30th 2025 #Photography

How to poke the bear? Not whether or not to poke the bear It isn't curiosity or the #conundrum that kills It's the bear #Vss365

As the lyophilization process was sold to him it sounded straight forward He would be frozen over three days before ultra high vacuum forced the water to #sublimate so he could be stored at room temperature without going moldy They didn't say they would put him through a bacon slicer first #Vss365

Row w Newcastle v Arsenal September 28th 2025 #Photography

The old adage that today's news wrapped tomorrow's fish and chips had been superseded in the age where a post was fathoms deep in seconds unless amplified by constant reposting of bots and fanatics. Snooze and you were irrelevant There was no time for #scrutiny No time to your catch breath #vss365

#Blueskyartshow Imagining the city of London in Cormac McCarthys #TheRoad May 26th 2025 #Photography

#Sonorous sunlight Accelerant forging flight From nighttime wastelands #Haiku #Vss365

Singing their little heart out September 26th 2025 #Birds #Photography

What do you think you're looking at? Said the Sparrow September 25th 2025 #Birds #Photography

Mr Messy Unleashed a #caprice of policy And then sidled off with the money Oh well #Vss365

Sparrow in a stressed birch September 21st 2025 #Birds #Photography

Does fate Create a date For every #eventuality? If true I'd prefer if you On that last occasion We're late #Vss365

The #Belwether said Inject bleach for infectious viruses But don't take verified and tested pain relief Turns out we had it wrong They had been a bell end all along #Vss365

Populist politics: "You want a lollipop?" "Here, have a lollipop" "Go on, you deserve it, they never give you a lollipop." Population: "I do, thanks for the lollipop" 1/4

A small smile A humble hello #Perhaps the seed planted To germinate a crop worth growing The filaments of community Cross bond To #reinvigorate A great humanity Bonded through their earth Your earth Our earth No one's earth #Vss365

#Sunrise over Linecroft Woods September 30th 2011 #Photography

Little Spuggy in the Honeysuckle September 21st 2025 #Birds #Photography

The circuitous path that leads away from the latest #catastrophe is blocked by an uncrossable chasm Oh well #Vss365

#Vss365 often #conspires to sell a story

Manufactured gods #Synthesis of human failure Oh well #Vss365

From trunk To branch To twig And leaf #Extrusion of Autumn colours Blown dry by western winds #Vss365

It's cold But the dogs got out at least They're yapping at me Circling on the bank Paw prints in the snow by my clothes And I can't move any more Numb Shock #stock still It's cold #Vss365

As a child the gasps of flame seemed only partially controlled The men employing the dragon weren't it's master #Flinching and squirming as it belched toxic smoke Covering boots in black drool as they fed it bitumen and stone Then moving slowly on Along the broken road #Vss365

Huge September clouds September 13th 2025 #photography

Dog shit bag blooms hang They #style the gate and fencepost Virtue less signalled #Vss365 #Haiku

Sometimes there is no spark Even charged with the greatest #potential There is no path for release No worries There will be Conditions always change #Vss365

The washed out aquamarine Under washed out peach sunkissed Cirrus Layered glimpses of sky And row after row of cumulus scud along on a stiff breeze #Barely registered here on the ground Breathing slows as darkness falls #Vss365

Wind turbine at Marr in the darkening post #sunset sky August 8th 2025 #Photography

A sweet saturated Saturday round a crown green watching a jack knocked into the gutter by a well weighed wood cast down on finger not thumb while whisps of Golden Virginia waft down wind into nostrils on a boy on a thickly painted bench taking the #wrapper from a gifted Nuttals Mintoe #Vss365

#Sunset at football training September 8th 2025 #Photography

#Power of fusion Greater than that of fission Create a new star #Vss365 #Haiku #moreincommon

A Sycamore in full #Summer glory August 25th 2025 #Tree #Photography #BlueSkyArtShow

Moon half full September 6th 2025 #Photography

The moon slides through September 6th 2025 #ICM #Photography

Each day fades before it's seen A shadow where it must have been And working weeks progress so fast No #chance for sensuous heat to last Months chased along by urgent gusts The pilfering of time unjust Pulse expired Sand all gone A certitude known all along #vss365

He was a unique #article A one off A rarity Thankfully #Vss365

Priory farm slowly sinks into the shadows at #Sunset August 5th 2025 #Photography

Sun shrouded by low cloud as it set August 5th 2025 #Photography

The summer sky draws net curtains across itself to hide away until next year. September 1st 2025 #Clouds #Photography

It's a low waxing gibbous September 4th 2025 #Photography

They knew I'd seen what they were doing when I made off for the woods They came straight after me and I could hear them calling "Don't run, why die tired?" My breath was ragged and as the twigs scratched past my arms I wondered at the #arbitrary nature of my death I'd never have guessed #Vss365