My pinhole viewer made with cereal box for tonight's eclipse. It works 😄
marandina
@marandina.bsky.social
Writer, poet, editor, loves sport, movies and other stuff. Writes fiction at abctales.com/user/marandina
‘Evening, and all my ghosts come back to me…I think about the field of grass I lay in once, Maybe I have not shaken the grass. I lay in a field of grass once, and then went on. Even the hollow my body made is gone.’ ~ Janice N. Harrington. 🖼️ Quietest Evening, Olga Kvasha, 2013.
A new poem: 'All Quiet on the Eastern Front' War...what is it good for? www.abctales.com/story/marand...
Cat and Mouse ~ Ted Hughes for #BookWormSat #BookWormCat #Caturday ‘The mouse crouched, staring out the chance It dared not take. Time and a world Too old to alter… Whether to two Feet or four, how are prayers contracted! Whether in God’s eye or the eye of a cat.’ 🖼️ The Cat Pounces, Rackham.
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‘I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.’ ~ William S. Burroughs. This #BookWormSat wears whiskers for International Cat Day with cats, catting, cattiness and all things cattish in literature. 🐈⬛ Do join us.
@racheldeering.bsky.social It's a little cooler. At last! *brings tea*
Another uplifting tale from the world of The Less Miserables SoulFire77’s’s ‘The Less Miserables Keep a Secret’ is today’s Pick of the Day. Do read all 3 parts! www.abctales.com/story/soulfi... Please share if you can. Image source and author: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca... JAMMIN8905!
‘And nightly under the simple stars As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away, All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables, the nightjars Flying with the ricks, and the horses Flashing into the dark.’ ~ Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas for #BookWormSat 🏴 🖼️ Caspar David Friedrich, c.1836.
‘Like the old songs they left behind, We hung our harps in the willows again. Ballads of boys blow on the wind, Their blood is mingled with the rain.’ ~ Hedd Wyn @racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a Welsh #BookWormSat
‘All the sun long it was running, it was lovely, the hay Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air And playing, lovely and watery And fire green as grass.’ ~ Fern Hill, Dylan Thomas for #BookWormSat 🏴 🖼️ Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1909.
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Annest Gwilym@annestgwilym.bsky.social · 3w agoA poem which will be appearing in my new poetry book - 'Contemplation of Roses' - publication date tbc. First published in Reach Poetry. Image by Jessica Vergeer. #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #blueskypoets
‘A fine gull on the tideflow, All white with moon or snow, Your beauty’s immaculate, Shard like the sun, brine’s gauntlet. Buoyant you’re on the deep flood, A proud swift bird of fishfood.’ ~ Yr Wylan (The Seagull), Dafydd ap Gwilym. #BookWormSat 🏴 🖼️ Wilhelm Kuhnert, 1904.
‘Thief of nests, though you winnow leaves No one accuses you, nor impedes you Fire won’t burn nor treason harm you. You shall not drown, as you’re aware, You’re never stuck, you’re angle-less air’ ~ Dafydd ap Gwilym, The Wind. #BookWormSat 🖼️ Emily Carr, 1939.
@racheldeering.bsky.social *moans about the heat again whilst clutching glasses of cold beer*
Survey completed to give feedback to my local MP Dan Aldridge MP about firework policies going forward. Have asked for more compassionate and considerate usage to reduce traumatising impact on animals, especially cats and dogs. Not quite an activist but good to have a voice.
‘I have been a speckled snake on the hill, I have been a viper in Llyn. I have been a bill-hook crooked that cuts, I have been a ferocious spear With my chasuble and bowl’ ~ Taliesin Tomorrow, to mark the start of Wales’ National Eisteddfod, #BookWormSat will celebrate with Welsh literature.
Evoking a real sense of time and place. Together with sparkling dialogue, do join the wonderful characters at Makis’s ‘The Tea Break’ making this today’s Pick of the Day. www.abctales.com/story/makis/... Please share if you can.
First reply back this morning. Channel 4 are considering it. That's a start!
marandina@marandina.bsky.social · 2w agoI have written to BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky asking them to include a reminder on their weather forecasts about treating dog walking with caution when temp is above 21C. Let's see what they come back with..
Ever wanted to escape from modern life? Head out of the reality of the human world into the woods and forests of England, teeming with wildlife. Get @racheldeering.bsky.social ‘In the Shadow of Gods’ on Amazon www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering #goodreads #PoemsAboutNature #poetry #writing
I have written to BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky asking them to include a reminder on their weather forecasts about treating dog walking with caution when temp is above 21C. Let's see what they come back with..
