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Category: Verse

Bloganuary week 1

January 7, 2023 ~ Cathy Cade ~ 10 Comments

Last year I joined the challenge late with a summary of the previous week’s bloganuary prompts. I don’t blog daily. Anyway, a one-word blog seems a waste of cyberspace. It worked for me last year, so here we are again. ### 1st Jan        What is something you want to achieve this year? Placement in more short … Continue reading Bloganuary week 1

Christmas Wrapping

December 11, 2022 ~ Cathy Cade ~ 9 Comments

Here's a previous years' poem that returned to me this morning while wrapping hubby's present. While one hand holds the paper, t'other's groping for the tape. Her goodwill fades as sticky tape escapes her lurches. She lets go the gift, to travel to the tape that caused the hassle and the perfect wrap unravels. Curses! … Continue reading Christmas Wrapping

Piece of Cake

November 6, 2022October 26, 2022 ~ Cathy Cade ~ 7 Comments

A poem, and a recipe. ### Pop them in the oven for ten minutes, and they’re done. Requires no kneading. Just the job for heavy-handed me. I found it on a website, but I can’t recall which one. Lighter than your usual scone but cakier than a bun. Delicious when they’re spread with jam and … Continue reading Piece of Cake

Least Favourite Things

October 13, 2022September 23, 2022 ~ Cathy Cade ~ 12 Comments

A Poem, following my recent post on Ageing Gratefully... Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com My Favourite Things – not Rising each morning at silly o’clock, rousing the children... walk dogs round the block. Crawling through rush hour towards an office, These, in retirement, are things I don’t miss. Each weekday evening, arrive home from work. … Continue reading Least Favourite Things

End of Life

September 12, 2022September 4, 2022 ~ Cathy Cade ~ 20 Comments

A poem Commissioned, instructed, and set on my course, Programmed to adapt and to learn from mistakes, To modify pathways encoded at source When new data is input that changes the stakes. Commands and procedures, appearance, behaviours Adapt and survive. Flexibility saves us. Failure to adapt leads to breakdown and damage, Repair and reprogramming, out … Continue reading End of Life

Slip-up

August 11, 2022August 16, 2022 ~ Cathy Cade ~ 2 Comments

What to do when you can't think what to write about... Post a poem 🙂 Photo by Tairon Fernandez on Pexels.com This one was written to the prompt Slip for the 'Twelve Poems in Twelve Months challenge at https://deadlinesforwriters.com/. One of my rare attempts at blank verse. ~ ~ ~ Slip-up I slip in with … Continue reading Slip-up

Suburban Forest

December 19, 2021December 18, 2021 ~ Cathy Cade ~ 15 Comments

Past ancient trees where once the King’s hunt rode, Low sunshine filters through to forest paths Here fat geese paddle still and royal swans glide, Around a lake man-made two centuries past. Through freshly fallen leaves, crisp underfoot, Scampering squirrels scatter from my dogs. Through leaves not churned yet into muddy ruts By cycles, turning … Continue reading Suburban Forest

Ekphrastic

November 24, 2021November 25, 2021 ~ Cathy Cade ~ 6 Comments

One prompt for 12 poems in 12 months earlier this year was Ekphrastic. No I didn't know what it meant either until I looked it up. The Christmas Crackerby W H Tweed (1840-1899) Apparently it means talking about stuff to do with art. My poem is below. It started as blank verse but kind of … Continue reading Ekphrastic

Diversion

November 10, 2021November 4, 2021 ~ Cathy Cade ~ 7 Comments

Since I have no idea what to write about this week, here's another poem from the 12 poems in 12 months challenge at deadlinesforwriters.com The prompt for this one was found. Diversion I thought I knew the way. I’ve not renewed my SatNav sub – it ran out back in May. The road was closed. … Continue reading Diversion

Digger dog

September 20, 2021September 7, 2021 ~ Cathy Cade ~ 16 Comments

A recent prompt for the 12-poems-in-12-months challenge was to include rhyme, alliteration and assonance. I wrote mine about an event that has also been the subject of a blog post here. Digger Dog Digger the dog was a pesky pup, After six mad months, her owners despaired. We’d just lost a dog, so we called … Continue reading Digger dog

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  • Bloganuary week 4 January 28, 2023
  • Bloganuary week 3 January 21, 2023
  • Bloganuary week 2 January 14, 2023
  • Bloganuary week 1 January 7, 2023
  • Singing as Therapy December 31, 2022
  • A Christmas story I made earlier December 23, 2022
  • Angels December 17, 2022
  • Christmas Wrapping December 11, 2022
  • One-sided December 7, 2022
  • Still Diverting November 30, 2022
  • 101 Word Flash Fiction November 22, 2022
  • Why Am I Writing This Boring Story? November 18, 2022
  • Wash Behind Your Ears November 12, 2022
  • Piece of Cake November 6, 2022
  • One Big Happy Family October 29, 2022
  • Dust If You Must… October 26, 2022
  • News Without Nuance October 21, 2022
  • Least Favourite Things October 13, 2022
  • Things I picked up along the way October 5, 2022
  • A Right Pickle September 27, 2022
  • Déjà Vu September 19, 2022
  • End of Life September 12, 2022
  • Ageing Gratefully September 4, 2022
  • Online Editors August 27, 2022
  • Where Do Ideas Come From? August 19, 2022
  • Slip-up August 11, 2022
  • Colour Me Faded August 3, 2022
  • Fashion? July 26, 2022
  • The Camino Santiago – The Way of St James July 18, 2022
  • Living on Less July 16, 2022

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