Paignton Pier

Walking plank’ed deck

Through the gaps, the grey sea glimpsed

Churns and heaves below

28.11.14

Changing

Black layer of leaves

In neglected trampoline

Slowly turns to mulch

27.11.14 Seen from the bus this morning.

Mute

Chilling, dismal mist

Silent, subtle, smothering

Grey enervation

26.11.14

Glowing

Striated gold clouds

Seen through silhouetted trees

Tell of sun's return

24-25.11.14

Unexpected

Frost on bus ceiling

Melting and dripping on me

Not seen that before

24.11.14

Early

First blue hint of dawn

Gradual shift into grey,

Enervating light

21.11.14

Downpour

Tarmac battlefield

Picked out in car headlights

Countless shells rain down

20.11.14

Unrelenting

Flecks of spray, salt taste

Booming waves smash the sea wall

Shingle foams and shifts

18.11.14

Hounds

Grizzled granite hounds

Keeping watch amongst the gorse

Crows for company

17.11.14

Thief

Twisted, shoved aside,

Tree clutches its patchwork cloak

Snatched at by the gale

13.11.14

Testing

Search form generates

a null pointer exception.

Waiting for new build

13.11.14

Dawn

Soft pink fingers slide

into Prussian velvet glove

Caressing azure

13.11.14

Inspector

Waiting for my train

Seagull struts the platform edge

Beady eye on me

12.11.14

Chapel

Frosty autumn morn

Sun touches grey chapel wall

Narrow windows glint

11.11.14

Super Turbo

Playing Street Fighter,

“Too nice for a Claw player.”

Time to get dirty.

10.11.14 In reaction to a comment made while I was attending a fighting games tournament on the weekend

Working on Inspiration

The original version:

I'm inspired, fizzing
with desire to share these thoughts
carbonated mind

29.10.14

It felt right when I wrote it but when I looked at it again later it no longer seemed to fit. I liked the third line so kept that and tried to come up with an image to go with it that worked a little better.

The first version has greater immediacy but is more disjointed; the third line seems to sit on its own too much.

Inspiration

Carbonated mind

Imperfect thoughts rise, expand

and break the surface

6.11.14

Re-worked, kept the phrase I liked. This version feels much less “excited” though. Perhaps “carbonated” can just about imply that energy.

Haloes

Their gaudy haloes

Flare overhead, and vanish.

Smoke fills the valley.

5.11.14
First word was a pain, tried several options, settled for least worst.

Jewels

One hundred jewels

gleam in watery light, fall

on copper salvers

4.11.14

The unreliable narrator

Memories - glamour

Uncertain reality

Frayed thread I daren't pull

29.10.14 to 4.11.14

Ruined

Ruined cadaver

Metal arms claw concrete flesh

Twisted steel entrails

3.11.14