Day: August 3, 2018

In case this anguish  block our little throats

Posted on August 15, 2017

We are not afraid as once we were
In 1963 when fingers groped
To end the Cuban missile crisis there.

Do we feel unreal or don’t we care
That we are on the edge of loss of hope?
We are not afraid as once we were

Have we so much News we can’t take more?
We struggle in our day life just to cope
Who ends the nuclear crisis that is here?

Have we split off feelings of despair
In case this anguish  block our little throats
We are not afraid nor numb, it’s clear

Can we  find again or  new acquire
The dignity of worth, the consoled woe?
Who will navigate such wild desire?

The  envy we seem locked in will require
Destruction of the other as its foe
We are not afraid as once we were
Of  nuclear crisis and its dead dismay

Puns etc

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By Mike Flemming 2018

Sentences are weapons:

 

We writers must write good sentences.
After reading your latest book, I feel I have been sentenced to death

I have been booked again after my  violin concert.
I told you  we were speeding .

The judge summed it all up:You  have gone too far, you are well past Coventry.I’d say 1,000 years in Greenland will keep Britain safe from men like you and the rest of the government.

If I cook the books, can  we ruminate tonight?

My sentence seems interminable
That’s only four words

I have not submitted,my thesis.
Well kneel  down and say,I give in.
But that’s not mathematics!
Neither is your comma.

We submitted all our plans to  the Government.
Don’t worry, their average reading age is 9.

I read the Guardian  nightly
That’s why you don’t understand anything
I do,I do
Look, we are married already
But not to each other.
Does it matter?
I feel odd.
It’s all this adulteration.
Stop, stop!
We’re not on  the bus
Well, in that case, the earth moved

 

Butterflies on Otmoor by Mike Flemming

http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB//viewtopic.php?t=7459&start=900#p135110

Visit the link to see more.The photos are all copyright

Extract:
As the month ended, I decided I should see what was happening at Aston Rowant NNR. I prefer the south-western end of the reserve, at Bald Hill near Christmas Common, which is away from the incessant roar of M40 traffic but has similar hillside habitat. After all the hot dry weather, i was surprised to see how tall the grasses had grown and, since there was a stiff breeze blowing, few butterflies were to be seen, at first glance.

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Bald Hill – View over Oxfordshire Plain
31st July 2018

Soon, however, I realised that the slope was buzzing with Silver-spotted Skippers, keeping low as they zoomed between Scabious flowers.

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Bald Hill, Oxon – 31st July 2018
Olympus E-M1-ii with 100-400mm lens – 1/1600s@f/11 ISO 640

There were also plenty of Chalkhill Blues, of both sexes, although these seemed to appear in ‘waves’ : for a while, nothing to be seen and then a group of 5-6 madly chasing around the slope. Their condition was very variable, with several looking very battered, while others were near pristine. Perhaps, this depended on how they had fared on the recent wet days.

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Bald Hill, Oxon – 31st July 2018
Olympus E-M1-ii with 100-400mm lens – 1/640s@f/10 ISO 640

I took several ‘regular’ shots but rather liked this one, where the butterfly took off at the end of a short burst of photos.

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Sentences

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How to write a good sentence
How to give a good sentence
How to survive a long sentence
Should poets write  in long sentences
What is a sentence?
What is a bad sentence?
What is a lenient sentence?
What is a harsh sentence?
What is a harsh word?
How to write a poor sentence in the best way
How to write transparently  yet with dignity
How to survive writing sentences
How to survive writing
How to survive
How?