Retirement……Poppies…. The Cairns - Days Three & Four…. FYI…
by Bernie Bell - 09:05 on 16 June 2023
Retirement……
My shoes are getting dusty
In the bottom of the wardrobe.
I only go out for walks.
I wonder
Should I send them to the charity shop
Or wait and see what happens?
People are wishing Mike well on his Retirement
Telling us to enjoy our time together.
And we will
Once we get through dealing with the reason
That he needed to retire.
Meanwhile - we try to live
In acceptance - and hope -
And retirement.
And I watch the life in the garden.
I wonder who will read this – and what their response will be?
Bernie Bell 15th of June 2023
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Poppies…
…in our garden….
‘Big Poppy’
Hot-eyed Mafia Queen!
At the trim garden’s edge
She sways towards August.
A Bumble Bee
Clambers into her drunken, fractured goblet –
Up the royal carpet of down-hung,
Shrivel-edged, unhinged petal, her first-about-to-fall.
He’s in there as she sways. He utters thin
Sizzling bleats of difficult enjoyment.
Her carnival paper skirts, luminous near-orange,
Embrace him helplessly.
Already her dark pod is cooking its drug.
Every breath imperils her. Her crucible
Is falling apart with its own fierceness.
A fly, cool, rests on the flame-fringe.
Soon she’ll throw off her skirts
Withering into vestal afterlife,
Bleeding inwardly
Her maternal nectars into her own
Coffin – (cradle of her offspring).
Then we shall say:
She wore herself in her hair, in her day,
And we could see nothing but her huge flop of petal,
Her big, lewd, bold eye, in its sooty lashes,
And that stripped, athletic leg, hairy
In a fling of abandon – ‘
Ted Hughes
I looked for a poem about Welsh Poppies - but couldn’t find one that I liked.
So thought I’d have a go myself….
Welsh Poppy
Small, delicate
Yet perennial
Golden, from butter-pale
To sun-orange
Seeds profusely
I’m pleased to say.
Bernie Bell 15th of June 2023
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The Cairns – Days Three & Four…..
Day three’s blog is by Siobhan Cooke-Miller….
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2023/06/14/the-cairns-dig-diary-day-three/
……Curator of Archaeology at Orkney Museum….which is A GOOD THING…..
https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/01/04/time-travel-in-tankerness-house/
Day four is by Michael Zambon – and includes some big finds..……..
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2023/06/15/the-cairns-dig-diary-day-four/
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Here’s one I made earlier…. https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/07/30/a-deck-gun-points-the-way/
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FYI…
I need to rest - so am taking some time out from the computer.
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