Monday, 30 June 2025

The Last Word In June

 Cheers Bundaberg GIF

 

That heady month is leading us

Into summer style and flair

Crazy nights in solstice lights

To gather near and share

 

When the temperature exceeding

Goes well beyond our general high

Confounding expectations

Where, under languid shades, we lie

 

When the weather turns up languorous

We indulge in ice on sticks

Dreamy Baked Alaska Cakes

Sip ice-cold Sarsaparilla mix

Sunday, 29 June 2025

A Rhyme Indeed

 I Know Renzo GIF


Meanings change and rearrange

Tweaking words when speaking

A type of language blending

Vernacular interleaving

 

If what is said has implications

Narrative must be aware

With firmness and conviction

Conveying messages foursquare 

 

Convincing by persuasion

To be accepted, not dismissed

Understood with clarity

The content of one’s gist 

Saturday, 28 June 2025

A Song In The Night

 

I Cant Get No Satisfaction Cause I Try GIF

The other night, as I was sleeping

Someone’s dream had lost its way

I offered it an easy seat

Where it could rest awhile or stay

 

We didn’t try to say too much

Then we immersed into the scene

No big deal on the daydream wheel

Where two imaginations lean

 

Unsure on how to progress

Something mutual or impartial 

In agreement with the fading light

A resting place most beneficial



This rhyme is based on a comment by Keith Richards. You can't write a song, you have to catch it in the air.


Music Video GIF by The Rolling Stones

Friday, 27 June 2025

Playtime

Happy See Saw GIF

A see-saw knocker 

On Marjorie’s door

To the sound of a dancer 

On a clay-tiled floor


Trusting on a bet

Like a worn-out chancer

Tapping out rhythms

Where there is no answer


Knock a rat-a-tat-tat

Johnny’s slog disaster

Won’t earn enough

He can’t work any faster

 

Thursday, 26 June 2025

Time to Pop Off

 Balloon Red GIF

Weasels go pop

As money goes west

Then nothing worth having

Like a good night’s rest

Tuppence a pound

For a full load of rice

Though half a pound

Will serve us four, nice

When out on the town

Dance in the Eagles

A frolic in fashion

Sing pop go the weasels

If you can’t work this rhyme out

Pawn a Tailor’s iron

Getting cash for an Eagle bash

These words you can’t rely on

You’ll get more from a weasel purse

Depending on whose round

A clue is in the weasels’ pop

Ten bob gets you half a pound

 

 

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

No Finer Light

Image 

The splendid orb in all her phases

Is powering our seasons

Invigorating propagating 

For immense sustaining reasons

 

Her enormity is limitless

Freely giving force to dream

Her circulating energy drives

Enticing brilliance supreme


 


Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Youth on Fire

 Lets Do This Lucy Hale GIF

Nineteen, a canvas bright,

Uncertain hues in fading light.

A heart that leaps, a soul that yearns,

A future path where hope returns.The weight of dreams, a whispered plea,

For all the things that might yet be.

A fragile strength, a tender grace,

A smile that lights a shadowed space.First loves and losses, sharply felt,

Lessons learned, though bridges melt.

Ambition's fire, a burning brand,

A reaching hand, across the land.Nineteen, a turning tide,

Where youthful dreams and fears reside.

A chapter closed, a new one starts,

In nineteen's dance, of hopes and hearts.

Sunday, 22 June 2025

Combinatorial

Unit Circle Butterfly GIF 

Counting on the fact, I think

Precisely by progression

Continuing and following

Without deviation or digression

 

Surely, I must understand

There is discovery in discretion

As I appreciate that holding back

Avoids a thought transgression

 

Forward motion is the way of things

That cannot be true repossession

But replication is a numbers game

In need of intercession 

Saturday, 21 June 2025

Just So.

Image
Picture By: Beatrice Groves@beatricegroves1


Taking in the moment

On a mindful day in June

A perfect solstice salad day

In a poppy field festoon

 

No unexpected visitors

In a peaceful field, serene

To contemplate a quiet state

In a theatre, red and green

 

Simplicity is a perfect place

To enjoy and while away

Nothing else relating to

This stately time of day 





Friday, 20 June 2025

Who Said That?

meerkat what GIF 

In my thoughtful mentalese 

Where I am continually

Not in a room or open air

But where I’m always me

 

I can’t be found by looking

Although talk may give a clue

Not one to answer everything

I may be waiting for a cue

 

If when reading this, you note 

Relating me, as in ‘first person’

If I tend to use the phrasal ‘I’

Syntax shows my extroversion 

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Dicey

Dice Wind Mill Dice Dancer GIF 

I’ve bought a 3D printer

To write some brand-new words

Nine-sided ways to write a rhyme

That leaves my readers undeterred 

 

Openers are often challenging

I recommend a start with dice

A random throw to build and grow

Dimensionally more nice

 

For those in search of meaning

It is a perfect word encounter

Not the only way to comprehend

A multiverse enchanter


In my angular of space and depth

I see volume's sleight of hand

A square peg in my parallax

Like shadow mountains in the sand



My favourite 3D word: Nonagon 

Monday, 16 June 2025

Changeable

Thunder Lightning GIF 

The weather’s looking imminent

There’s expectation in the sky

A sense of something happening

Much wondering passing by

 

The weather rules the universe

On planets causing turmoil

Turning up and churning up

When the climate starts to boil

 

Don’t hang on where the weather is

You’ll be mashed up in uproar 

You’ll never know how far you’ll flow

When your world becomes offshore

Sunday, 15 June 2025

Literally Me

 Penguin Twinning GIF by Pudgy Penguins

Have you ever given any thought?

On how you may not Be you

If somehow they made a way to clone

Our very essence straight and true

 

If sitting there alone one day

My replicant came by

Which one of us would validate

The who, which one, and why

 

When steadfast in our company

Would we both agree we’re me

No differences in what we are

If Indistinguishable we’d be

 

From a frame of mind identical

A choice of dress based on joint mood

Can we test each other’s right to be

Without appearing rude

 

Sitting face to face could we

Speak independently 

Or forever sit there quietly

Stuck in place identically 

Saturday, 7 June 2025

Up Up and Away

 up up and away GIF by Disney

A clock ticks on

its steady chime

Weaving through 

Its threads of time

Moments fleeting 

Yet they shine

Like whispers soft 

A love divine

The dawn ascends

A golden hue,

Promises fresh in skies anew

Through every shadow

Every climb

We dance along 

Life's fragile rhyme

Oh time you fleeting 

Cunning sage

You pen our story 

On your page

Yet though you run 

We walk and find

The beauty etched 

In heart and mind

 

Friday, 6 June 2025

Someting In The Bank

 trump resist GIF by Doctor Popular

Data streams and data points

Data Islands in their clouds

Reservoirs and data basins

In their well-protected shrouds

 

Models nanomanufacturing

Intelligence in refineries

Nothing more than none or one

In megalithic chips of binaries

 

In computation information

A switchblade knife is honed

At speed will slice and roll the dice

To leave its Emperors dethroned

Thursday, 5 June 2025

Proof Positive

Be Positive Smile GIF 

When fiddling around 

With fiddly things

In petri dish or test-tube 

Things occurring 

hot or cold

Super steam 

Or deep freeze cube

Investigating 

Ways and means

Uncovering whys

And wherefores

Accepting causes

And effects

Around the inpours 

with the outpours

So much to know 

About tests that show

Though implicitly 

Is simplicity

In skylight high discoveries

Struck down by electricity

 

Wednesday, 4 June 2025

Silver Linings

The Evil Queen La Méchante Reine GIF

In the Isles of all things British

Where once a fat Queen sat

Upon a throne of power-prone

In a diamond-studded hat


Collecting golden ornaments

Her subjects pedalled to adorn

Bejewelled in fancy overcoats

The kind of quality well worn


Well Indulged and served upon

in a Star-studded gilded shrine

Like a wing-clipped tower Raven

Who can’t escape the royal shrine 

Monday, 2 June 2025

Inundation Blues

 Flood Overflow GIF

Strangest things most unexpected

When we least expect them to

Turning expectations inside out

The way kaleidoscopes can do

 

Swiftly changes happen

A tidal wave of mass disruption

Unforeseen no in-between

Vested interest plays on interruption

 

Repercussions changing everything

Which goes to show how achingly 

The weirdest things occurring 

Often happens when all at sea