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By Rhiannonw

Incidents, and musings

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Beauty is …

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 07 Jun 2013

quietness and gentleness, a personal, warm smile; wisdom without brusqueness, discretion without guile, firmness without harshness, meekness without weakness, unselfishness and kindliness,
Love
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(IP) 10, 20, 30 … 60 …

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 11 Feb 2013

with apologies to A A Milne At 10, still growing not knowing where going; at 20 time a-plenty; by 30, very busy, family responsibility; so 40 brings perplexity, parental anxiety:
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A 2-year old’s Birthday Perplexities

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 09 Jun 2012

feel puzzled and dazzled … I think I’ll just go up to bed!
Poem
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A letter from the war …

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 19 Dec 2011

… my father’s writing …
Autobiography
Poem
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A rioter’s hangover (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 24 Sep 2012

… We’ll run amok, do anything to shock, and break and crack, yell, shriek, attack, until exhausted …
Crime
Poem
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A sweet or sour end?

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 06 Sep 2012

Though bones may crumble, your movements fumble, joints stiffen, legs weaken – a heart that’s humble, sweet and loving, is ever giving, with gift to lift the weary visitor,
Spiritual
Poem
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A train journey

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 28 Apr 2012

One is nearly two, and two are three, then there’s Mum, and also me – to help. How long will it be? trying different seats, exploring, views from windows, rain is pouring,
Poem
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An outing for Gran

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 06 Jun 2012

Outing in the car, drizzling outside, can’t see very far, thoughts begin to slide. Saturated hedges, trees are dripping drops, soaking wet the verges; but the driver stops, –
Nature
Poem
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Back to School!

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 08 Sep 2012

September mornings, sunny faces walking crisply back to school … September mornings, Mums released … Now their therapy’s begun, they walk their flock, or drive the run …
Children's
Poem
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Back-seat kids!

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 23 May 2011

Stop that bickering in the back! …
Children's
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before it was too late …

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 02 Dec 2011

A friendship with promise, and stars in her eyes, but he met her sister and couldn’t disguise the mutual attraction and shared understanding, the love and committment,
Poem
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Caring Restraint!

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 16 May 2011

I’ll hold your hand for your own good – you cannot see the things that could be dangerous, hurt, or make you fall – I’ll hold your hand while you are small! I’ll hold your hand
Children's
Poem
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City in the rain (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 28 Apr 2012

Children three, their Mum and me, leave the train, to brave the rain, out from the station, been told there are signs, scanning everywhere, holding hands and bags, and chair,
Children's
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Co-operation (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 01 Aug 2012

A breakdown in co-operation in orchestra, or football team: … To bring about co-operation between those who live lands apart …
Spiritual
Poem
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Dandelion heads’ bouquet!

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 12 Jul 2012

Dandelion mopheads, each a golden star Poppy runs to pick them … but … young Poppy’s laughing gift brought quite an unexpected lift!
Poem
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Elusive Sleep (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 12 Jun 2013

you drift and doze … elusive sleep just comes and goes … ‘how come I missed the dawn?'
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Extra Busy Parents

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 23 May 2013

Dashing here and dashing there, and at pains the work to share – – paid employment, nappies, chores ( –“these are mine, and those are yours”); shuttling children everywhere,
Love
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Frustrations. (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 31 May 2013

Taking ages to turn the pages … … Learning a knack … some discouragement, some success
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Mind The Gap (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 01 Jun 2013

Have you dropped your shoe down there, or flip-flop, through the gap? Have you had to find the guard to fish to reach your purse or cap with stick and hook while watched by all,
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‘Inconnu’, nearly 94

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 13 Aug 2013

… a book that’s closed, with cheerful cover …
Biography
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Jewels in the Tarmac (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 23 Apr 2013

A treasured time when school is out, morning lie-ins, laze about; those treasured days, start of new terms, Mum’s ‘window’ 9-3 returns. A treasured time when health’s renewed,
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Poor Dad! (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 06 May 2013

Hungry on holiday kids’ tummies sad end of a jolly day, – ‘Where’s the chippie, Dad?’ Driving up and all around, ‘Stop, Dad, ask a passer-by’ ‘Need a local on home ground
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One hour with the twins

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 14 Mar 2011

Helping Mum for an hour, 4 children, including 2 year old twins
Humour
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Looking back at … supporting a child with Asperger symptoms

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 08 Aug 2011

Vision and thoughts in precision-beamed focus, peripheral matters ignored, little notice to much of what else is occurring around. Where did he put down his jacket or book? –
Autobiography
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The exact time is … (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 03 Oct 2011

He wanted to know, exactly …
Miscellaneous
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On prematurely awaking from a car-nap

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 05 Oct 2011

a 2¾ year old
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Freedom, from a life in pieces

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 31 Oct 2011

“O son, you know my life was such a mess, – brought others, and myself distress; you know things now are so much better, since, by God’s grace, I broke that fetter,
Other Fiction
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Nearly three – “You can’t see me!”

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 02 Nov 2011

Nearly 3, hide behind a tree – “You can’t see me!” though a spotty anorak is sticking out from round the back! “You can’t see me!” Yes, I know I forgot to go
Poem
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Fireworks (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 07 Nov 2011

Bonfire hot, guy alight, brightening up the pitch-dark night, candles fizzing, rockets whizzing, speedy soaring, star-bursts pouring, bangs and crackles, children’s chuckles,
Children's
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We too will be old one day

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 19 Nov 2011

Stories pouring, boring, recycled once more, repeatedly pour: heavy chore – listen, smile, in a while try to find a way that’s kind, to stop the flow interject with tact
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Three-year old helpers

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 13 Dec 2011

… between your arms, beneath your feet …
Poem
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The Stretched Generation

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 29 Dec 2011

On call to young and old…
Miscellaneous
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Letter from the war (Part 2)

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 12 Jan 2012

Project about my father’s 1945 letter given to me a while after his death,– an ordinary young soldier’s war-time wanderings, and occupations from late 1941.
Biography
Poem
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Mother’s love, not smother love

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 17 Jan 2012

The hardest job on earth?
Love
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On Aging Loss, Fractured World

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 23 Jan 2012

Quick comprehension of road situations, skilful control, assessing conditions, traffic, and road signs, remembering routes, a brain that’s alert, considers, computes.
Love
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‘The day I forgot my pin …’ (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 03 Feb 2012

or had I?
Poem
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I’ve always known best … (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 27 Feb 2012

when I started this I had some thought of placing it in the ‘humour’ section, but while writing the situation has so deteriorated that sadness and concern have eclipsed any original wry humour.
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Worn down Mum

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 13 Mar 2012

Rat! tat! tat! … a friendly face … fresh ideas … tensions disappear!
Poem
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Grandchildren staying (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 09 Apr 2012

Round the house, running legs scuffling, shuffling, searching, hunting Easter eggs. Where’s Mum put them? read the clue – one for me and one for you.
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Near but far (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 01 May 2012

I’m snug and cosy in my bed, and smug not to be outside instead – the rain is pattering and battering windows and trees, and I hug my knees, shiver and grin, – it’s nice to be in,
Children's
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Looking after Jimmy, next door

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 25 Jun 2012

… Two young girls felt quite assured – of course little Jimmy would be good!… [An early lesson in child management]
Poem
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Words lost in a tide of ink! (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 04 Jul 2012

I was the culprit, little sister, not the young author
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Mma Makutsi desires a husband

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 18 Jul 2012

(with apologies again to Alexander McCall Smith) With big glasses, and an awkward type of skin, she felt it quite impossible to win a decent man, she very keenly felt
Love
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One small step = one giant leap, his mother knows (IP?)

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 04 Sep 2012

… Don’t push that struggling child to run, but praise that step – progress begun! … For that small step, his mother knows, was like a giant leap (pride shows).
Children's
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Self-absorbed

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 20 Sep 2012

Insisting on honour, he lost their respect, absorbed with himself, he could not connect with the thoughts and the wants of those around: a lonely man, who didn’t know
Love
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One autumn leaf (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 16 Oct 2012

She picked a leaf up off the ground, yellowy-brown, but crispy dry, ‘A treasure to keep by’, she said. She showed it to me, shared it with me, we looked together, traced the lines,
Children's
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Elderly Worrier, and his Weary Wife

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 19 Oct 2012

Such an effort to get out of bed, for worried morning, ‘What was it I’d thought about I need to be bemoaning?’ Weary wife finds constant flow of worries and complaints
Humour
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Derby and Joan’s last Holiday (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 20 Oct 2012

Now Derby and Joan were proud of their home, but lately there’d been some confusion: from her fading memory, and wobbly mobility, and the increase of his agitation; so a plan had been spun
Love
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“Looking after ’Ealth ’nd ’Appiness” (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 27 Oct 2012

Oops! I’ve reversed the letters, sorry! “Look after your ’ealth,” his Momma did say … “Look after your ’appiness, Charlie, me lad …
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Is the grass greener ...? (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 17 Nov 2012

Shortie said to Bean-pole, ‘I wish that I was tall!’ Bean-pole said to Shortie, ‘I’d rather be quite small! I feel just so conspicuous, up here above you all.’
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‘Canta’ was a black Ford car

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 29 Nov 2012

My parents had a little car, ‘Canta’ was its name, ‘Can’t afFord it! won’t go far!’, – some modest trips their aim. My father fixed a hole above. – A puzzled frown, reproof,
Humour
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The Day for Making Promises (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 03 Dec 2012

A time not for fuss, expense, but for us; – a time to be told to love and to hold in youth and when old… so, when you have heard us each give our word, then stay for some cake…
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No Man an Island (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 18 Dec 2012

Media brilliant lifestyles flaunt, and peers tease and taunt, boast their jollity, popularity, and depress those feeling they have less, unaware those thrills illusory, elusive,
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“Dad! Mum!” (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 10 Aug 2013

His Dad could fix most anything with bits of string … his Mum could fix cuts with a kiss …
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Scrabble Trouble (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 17 Jan 2013

Some like the stress of strategic ponderings, as in chess; but I like to dabble in playing scrabble … … but, where is the 'Z'?
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the Holiday Getaway! (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 18 Feb 2013

(a kid’s-eye view) They’re packing the car, we’re leaving today, travelling far for our holiday. They scuttle and scurry, worry and hurry, fill crannies and nooks
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The Carer’s Respite (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 25 Feb 2013

A day of release from a Caring role, relief of pressure and stress, a refreshment goal – … clean, purge out stale lethargy, revive joy and vibrancy; returning anew to …
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To‘bottom’ing, at Caer* Caradoc (23:3:13)

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 26 Mar 2013

[*Ki.r] Plunging, crunching through the deep, crisp snow – what fun, but, oh, so slow! then up the hill we go (the sky a-mist with floating drift), but when we reach the steeper bit
Autobiography
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Weakening Muscles and Mind (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 06 Mar 2013

Inflexible wrist, slipping grip missed, dish fell with a clattering, all the food splattering the floor and the chair, mess everywhere: a touch of despair – but someone is caring,
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Disappearance (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 23 Aug 2013

I look at the hook, and cant believe it’s empty of jingling, jangling keys, oh please, where did I place them, can memory trace them? when did I use...
Humour
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An unintentional ‘flutter’ (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 02 Sep 2013

She had some raffle tickets to raise money for her school, she knew I’d want to help but … her Mum would never win …
Humour
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Toddler Art

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 04 Oct 2013

I like to use a crayon – it makes a mark, and then I take it round, and up and down, – and push it back again. I’ve got a lot of colours. I like to...
Children's
Poem
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Taking the Risk – a bond repaired (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 14 Oct 2013

The night came early … Her hand drifted out to the phone, lying near, she struggled with doubt, embarrassment, fear.
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Jumping to Conclusions (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 19 Oct 2013

He thought he saw – and told his friends – a floating, waving ghost. They looked themselves and saw it was washed clothes caught round a post … He thought he heard words critical, and shouted wildly back …
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Debt Weight

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 28 Oct 2013

[a102866's poem 'No Frills Shopper' about advertising was partly what got me thinking on this subject] As slick and sly the words fly by, a subtle bribe you may imbibe to purchase now, from hearing how … … deceptive “must-haves” false and fake create financial stomach-ache …
Miscellaneous
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Maybe …

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 05 Nov 2013

another imaginative background to the 1920s IP photograph Mums and Dads and sisters, brothers, neighbours, grandfathers, grandmothers joined a club,...
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“He should have gone to …” (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 20 Nov 2013

(partly inspired by the Specsavers adverts) Was that his daughter coming down the path? He thought her living far away in Perth. Or was it just his...
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Trying to adjust (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 27 Nov 2013

For a long time now, increased confusions meant he needed help with loo excursions; so, retiring early to my bed, with thought of broken sleep ahead...
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Little boy lost … (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 14 Dec 2013

Little boy lost in a great big crowd pushing and bumping, the noise very loud; a forest of legs, and a sea of shoes – ‘I don’t think my Mummy’s are...
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Children's
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The Tale of a Cracker Jigsaw

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 30 Dec 2013

… some are lost and later found tossed away or kicked around …
Humour
Love
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New Year – not 1/1 (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 07 Jan 2014

Another new year – what lies before? all of a flutter! – what’s next in store? …
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Not what she’d planned (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 28 Jan 2014

Walking, walking, emotions numb, hopes dashed, plans crashed, no heart for talking, tongue frozen, dumb. She’d all her life awaited motherhood, and...
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“When I am gone …”

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 28 Feb 2014

‘No-one will worry when I die, they’ll all be glad when I am gone,’ ‘Do you love them? Do you try? or think about yourself alone?’ ‘If you show them...
Love
Poem
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The General Knowledge Test (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 11 Mar 2014

Who wrote ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’? … visions of a fat Pooh bear with blue balloon to help him float …
Humour
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Piggy Bank

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 14 Mar 2014

Clonk! clank! Piggy Bank: from the top pennies drop make a puddle in its middle. Crunch! Click! Key turns, flick! Pennies slide from inside. Pennies...
Children's
Humour
Poem
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Emotional Deprivation

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 21 Mar 2014

This is based not on an extreme case, but it has highlighted to me the effects that this can have A pleasant man this Dad, but wholly self-absorbed,...
Love
Poem
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Woof! Tic(k)s! (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 10 May 2014

… dog-ma-tic …
Humour
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Planning Exits: Serious and humorous (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 03 Jul 2014

Keep your pathway quite clear from you to the door, remember you’ll have to get out, before … ***************************** Keep your eye on the clock when Grandad rings …
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Nurture

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 05 Jul 2014

A child unchecked in cheek, or greed, or selfishness, or one uncomforted in fear or loneliness, may live to be a hundred, hampered, hindered,...
Love
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Self-Absorbed

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 19 Jul 2014

“If I could clear my mind, be free of my concerns pertaining me, I’d really like to stop and see what all your suffering might be …
Love
Poem
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Grave Visit (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 02 Aug 2014

Black boots, brown boots in a line … ‘Look sad, ’cos smiling’s not permitted’, John said, to make me laugh or squeak …
Historical Fiction
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Time Guesstimates

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 07 Aug 2014

Just a minute! half a mo’, I’ll be hardly any time – don’t go! In a second, or a tic, I’m coming! (isn’t he going ?), I’ll be quick! Not that long,...
Humour
Poem
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Entrusted

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 25 Aug 2014

Why? Oh, why? O why are children starved, and under fire, abducted, forced to fight by those who have no right, despise their cruel plight, and teach...
Spiritual
Love
Poem
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Fading

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 01 Sep 2014

… but now with all abilities decayed, he seems no longer bitter, or afraid … sweet smile awhile.
Love
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It’s ’til another day… (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 25 Sep 2014

I’m not forgetting that task I said I’d do – I’ve left it ’til another day, and not remembering the worries old and new – I’ve left them ’til another day …
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Nursing Home Visit (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 21 Oct 2014

– a bunch of old photos ‘Bill’s changed a lot! Joe’s beard’s black! There’s Annie as a tot! Who’s that peeping at the back? ‘Here’s brother Bert, and...
Love
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An Aural Spy! (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 08 Nov 2014

It isn’t good to eavesdrop but when you have the care of a very aging couple and one can hardly hear – the other has confusion –
Love
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Wind in my hair!

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 15 Nov 2014

Blowing, freshening, blustery gusts bracing, racing, whisking, frisking decluttering clinging, clogging cobwebs – cast out fast by …
Nature
Poem
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Christmas Round Robins (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 17 Nov 2014

No Robin rubbin’, feathers ruffling … Like a face-book page it may get trite, artificial, trivial, and sounding over-bright, how much to say? should keep it brief, and remember some recipients may be struggling with grief
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Doctor visit @ 95

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 02 Jan 2015

Days 1,2 Cough, Cough, Cough, Cough Does your chest hurt, feeling rough? No, I’m fine, dear, Cough,Cough, Cough, Cough, Cough, Cough Cough, Cough,...
Love
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A 5-year old’s bedroom (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 24 Jan 2015

I open my eyes, and what do I see? My own little world that is just for me – the curtains whose shapes and figures I weave into stories of heroes and...
Children's
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Shaken

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 12 Feb 2015

Woke up this morning …
Unclassified
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What’s that noise? (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 05 Mar 2015

There’s a rustle, like a scuffle, or a snuffle in the drawer – I open it wide, and their inside – 2 bright eyes and a furry nose, I scream! and away...
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Peter Macavity Rabbit

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 17 Mar 2015

cf http://allpoetry.com/Macavity:-The-Mystery-Cat This Peter was a hasty bunny, thought himself invisible, his confidence was immature and dangerous and risible … – but Peter wasn’t there!
Children's
Humour
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Fame or flame? (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 21 Mar 2015

The fire approached, the danger encroached, they were building a boat – the best thing afloat. Luxurious, expansive, and very expensive – would hold...
Philosophy
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Heart Window

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 27 Mar 2015

Will you open your heart through your eyes? not just smile with your lips, with your eyes in eclipse. I don’t want to pry, your history spy, but if...
Philosophy
Love
Poem
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A ‘little bit’ of what you fancy … (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 06 Apr 2015

A little runny honey is lovely to lick, but a lot just makes my tummy sick; and chocolate too is yummy, but it makes me feel so funny if I stuff...
Children's
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What do grown-ups mean by a ‘short’ walk?

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 11 Apr 2015

Kick a ball and climb a tree – a walk with lovely views to see. Daddy says, ‘We’ll circle down – we’ve time a-plenty’, little boys frown [‘If Daddy...
Children's
Nature
Poem
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Trespassers will … (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 13 Apr 2015

… and we prosecute anyone who loots!’
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Selfish Unselfishness

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 24 Apr 2015

Desire to please can stifle disclosure of personal preferences, rob others of pleasure of being unselfish – though none of us relish forgoing the...
Love
Poem
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Superficial (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 25 Apr 2015

Where are you? I can’t find you! You’re hiding there below … find a kinship and respect a trust that can connect – no friendship shallow, polite and hollow: so take the risk to …
Love
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Turnabout

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 09 May 2015

He stole from others – was a thief, now works – can share and bring relief. He boozed – …
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Love
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Aging Carer

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 01 Jun 2015

Aging parent too aged to realise he’s cared for by his aging weary child –
Love
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At last – Moving! (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 02 Jun 2015

He wriggled and squirmed, he kicked as he yearned to reach for that thing over there! He stretched and he pushed, he flexed as he wished to change...
Children's
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‘he passed by on the other side’* (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 15 Jun 2015

When to shut, when to open …
Spiritual
Love
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Aging 'Countdown' Expert (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 27 Jun 2015

Letters whizzed around his brain and slipped in place with ease, couldn’t conceive why others found it hard and their minds just seemed to freeze...
Biography
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Sick bed touch?!

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 03 Jul 2015

… with gentle confidence, not a bony, cold finger!
Humour
Love
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Certificate U

‘Blowing hot and cold’ (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 07 Jul 2015

enthusiasms flare up and sizzle … flit and shift … fizzle … out
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

To Pluto – and Back! (Poetry Monthly)

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 17 Jul 2015

for children …
Children's
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

Valued Escapes (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 23 Jul 2015

… and finance applied for things like a ‘sitting service’ supplied for people like us – to shop, take a quiet lunch break, get out in the wilds alone with your husband … four hours, or more, for sanity’s sake …
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

There’s always one child … (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 27 Jul 2015

‘So, why not? … let’s give it a shot …’ – “ New Rule for Campers ”
Humour
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Surroundings impress (Poetry Monthly)

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 05 Aug 2015

Concrete cubes and glaring glass … Growing up in rural calm … One lad alone on lonely farm, exposed to winds …
Philosophy
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

Blue Mood Mall

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 22 Aug 2015

Swamping, dazzling, echoing chatter and footsteps batter, muzak thumping, people thrusting, bumping, alluring displays (plastic pays), austerity...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

The Ultimate Outcome (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 25 Aug 2015

The result of the anger was drinking, which led to a lack of quick thinking … and time to give thought, reflection …
Philosophy
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Recitation’s Repetition (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 29 Aug 2015

[Based loosely on a memory of youth “Eisteddfodau*” of my childhood]: “Now who will represent our school in the local competition? …
Children's
Humour
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
Gold cherry

Emptied Lands …

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 05 Sep 2015

Displaced, pushed out from hunger, cruelty the many flee; and some enticed and fleeced in perilous schemes by those with no regard for safety if they...
Horror
Love
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate 12
1 likes

A Child's Week (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 17 Sep 2015

— synaesthetically
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

WWW.

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 22 Sep 2015

Not a net that fishes, extracts, but to penetrate, infiltrate, disseminate facts – while lies are slyly flying …
Philosophy
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

“The joy of an Indian summer*”

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 08 Oct 2015

– an unexpected extension of life and love in season of wilting … a sudden sign … diagnosis clear … ‘expect quick decline … the passing is near’ …...
Biography
Love
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Tissues

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 22 Oct 2015

Self discipline of many years to never sniff or drip; determined in these ageing days for manners not to slip, and always to equip …
Biography
Humour
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Spreading their Wings!

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 31 Oct 2015

Running up with glee, need a little push, scared to start, fly free – slide with whoosh and rush! Swing, away you go – ‘see you soon’ ‘goodbye’, 'now...
Humour
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Patterns and Ploughshares

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 07 Nov 2015

… Melt guns into ploughshares, their powder ignite display to delight …
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
2 likes
Cherry

Rupture (Poetry Monthly)

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 19 Nov 2015

Lonely, forlorn, life torn in two – https://soundcloud.com/rhiannon-weber/rupture
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Torch Play …

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 21 Nov 2015

… When it’s dark, I think I remember …
Children's
Humour
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Day of contrasts

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 27 Nov 2015

The morning was wet, as wet as you get – torrential rain slamming, drumming … when you’re 94 and can no longer dash through the downfall and splash … free for the afternoon – what should we do? … the rain has stopped … a lovely spot to walk, and talk … (now with requested recording!)
Nature
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

Completing the Circle (Poetry Monthly)

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 04 Dec 2015

This was in the pipeline anyway, so thought it could be a 'Poetry Monthly'. Newborn : constant provision, attention; growth : necessary sharing,...
Philosophy
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Sprayed Words (Poetry Monthly)

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 08 Dec 2015

gabbling …
Philosophy
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Upgrade Resolution

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 02 Jan 2016

Tempers pizzicato softening to legato; sharp distortions, character corners, picasso-like contortions – gentle air-brush out the rash and brash,...
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

The Softening of Storms

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 02 Feb 2016

… content in its comfort … Buffeting wind, and howling blast … drenching and scouring … grass glitters … a fruitful life flowing …
Philosophy
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Symbols and Substance

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 16 Feb 2016

Hard heart, soft heart, hot heart (red-hot? – fickle – ice cold – luke warm?) warm heart, even temper(ature), cool head, calm love, kind hands – gentle, ready help, steady …
Philosophy
Love
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Restrictions lifted (Poetry Monthly)

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 18 Feb 2016

Wings clipped, curtailed from many jaunts, involvements not just by cost or real unsuitableness, but rhythm of duties tight of care – boundaries that...
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Frozen Ground

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 25 Feb 2016

Hope nipped, joy buried … fresh melting breeze …
Spiritual
Philosophy
Poem
Certificate U

A busy mozzie’s buzz

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 08 Mar 2016

Vibrations in front and behind, that reverberate round in my mind –
Humour
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Ensnared

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 10 Mar 2016

Enticing coyly, words cloying, oily, teasing, easing, sleazily seizing, trickles of tickly tricking, trapping with sugary wrapping, sweetly lulling,...
Philosophy
Poem
Certificate U

A tick in time (Poetry Monthly)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 14 Mar 2016

seconds ticking, flicking by – notches on the wall – kids grow
Philosophy
Poem
Certificate U

A tick in time (Revision) (Poetry Monthly)

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 15 Mar 2016

As encouraged by Tony, I have worked further on the rhythm of this poem, but I would value critical comment. The first version is still posted if any want to compare. [seconds ticking, flicking by …]
Philosophy
Poem
Certificate U

Scrooge … (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 18 Mar 2016

… began to laugh, began to grieve for those he’d hurt, and treated as dirt, began to leave his miserly misery, began to care, began to share, began...
Philosophy
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Currency down the drain? (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 30 Mar 2016

… from time that’s been and gone a phoenix can arise.
Philosophy
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Visiting ‘Mamgu' (Poetry Monthly)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 18 Apr 2016

Memories of visiting ‘Mamgu’ in Maesteg mid 1950s “Thirty miles, a ‘spangle’ to suck every ten, soon be there … look there’s the pub with our name...
Autobiography
Poetry Monthly
Certificate U

Wonder Diets & Phishing

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 21 Apr 2016

… announce with allure spectacular cure … trick your finger to click …
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Fall-prevention Physio - for the (very) elderly

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 29 Apr 2016

I‘m a deputy dictator …
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Five years

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 07 May 2016

A country torn
Love
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

Me?

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 06 Jul 2016

Charcoal-smudged swirls – a holiday quick-sit, no time given to fidget or stiffen the grin – … more alive than old photos …
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

Individuality and Cooperation

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 16 Jul 2016

Oh, leg, run, catch the bus … – I’d rather stay in bed! … In families and nation, we need, at home, abroad, esteem, co-operation, not malice and discord.
Philosophy
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

“One up!” “Two down!”

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 11 Aug 2016

Two rural teenagers waiting on a bench aware of naivety in urban fashion-sense: ‘One up’ ‘two down!’ ‘one down’ ‘oh,three up, there!' – with clothes of passers-by, their own compare! …
Philosophy
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Synaesthetic Musings

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 19 Aug 2016

My memories, and my son’s musical synaesthesia
Biography
Poetry Monthly
Certificate U
Cherry

PressureHeatwave

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 31 Aug 2016

Intense the heat, the hurt, the pain, repeat, repeat again, again – unbearable sense of defeat. Robot-like keep going, sleep, get up, work, earn –...
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Mother Duck and the Wandering duckling

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 03 Sep 2016

Across the water weaving, the still lake’s surface cleaving … I don’t want to grieve that you are prematurely gone!’
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

A Dad’s work is never done …! (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 13 Sep 2013

Come the rain, son, I’ll mend your train, come the rain, Ma, I’ll try again to fix those shelves, and mend that hole, find a place to store your...
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Embarrassment!

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 29 Sep 2016

Do you know the story of Thomas and the mine? the roof broke, he fell in, because he’d disobeyed the sign. His pride thought he knew better … – triumphantly he went right past, and thought it quite a laugh.
Children's
Humour
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Mañana

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 08 Oct 2016

It was one of those days when I used to say, ‘One of these days now –
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Autumn Colours (ii)

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 02 Nov 2016

Grey crown or grey frown?
Philosophy
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Peaceful Explosions

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 05 Nov 2016

Sparkles in the sky … – kiddies cling amidst the shrieks, but do not fear and quake, as others do in far-off lands …
Philosophy
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Nail holes

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 21 Nov 2016

When I was about 6 or 7 …
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

Not yet

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 29 Dec 2016

A family party, complete bar one …
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Romantic Dramatics

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 27 Feb 2017

Good-looking to a ‘T’ popular, and chic, immaculate, cocksure, well-dressed and sleek, dangling followers by a string, always in control, confident of all her power, certain of her goal …
Romance
Poetry Monthly
Certificate U

School Absence, Home Presence

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 07 Mar 2017

School absence, home presence – what a noise from a little boy’s questions and chatter and ‘what is the matter with my head and my tum, Mum?’ School presence, home absence –
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Chasing the dream

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 16 Mar 2017

[‘Help to find your new home’ TV presenter – ‘What are your desires/requirements?]
Philosophy
Poetry Monthly
Certificate U

‘Where is your home?’

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 03 Apr 2017

Together, they entered a home – dementia for him had now come. She needn’t have gone, but she knew …
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Kids not wanting to leave … the streets?

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 20 Apr 2017

Hard to leave the streets, the friends to whom we cling … it’s an unfamiliar, unknown risk to leave …
Philosophy
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Merry-go-round

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 22 Apr 2017

Daily life a jolly circus, busy, dizzy, loud and raucous, zero tolerance of boredom, caught in hedonistic thraldom, bright the lights, the music...
Philosophy
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

‘Better a dry crust with peace and quiet …

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 12 May 2017

… than a house full of feasting, with strife.'*] Some love to cook, and have great skill concocting, cooking a meal to thrill … but my attention soon gets distracted …
Philosophy
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Family Gathering

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 15 May 2017

Impatient son – he poked the crumbs that topped the pudding’s plums. He licked his finger, quickly went, disaster to prevent – ‘There’s something...
Humour
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Iconic Women

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 20 May 2017

Available to infant cries, and teenage angst, gentle, but gritty, integrity, love and pity, honesty, no time or aim at name of fame, no widespread...
Love
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Bastille Day, 1987

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 18 Jul 2017

This isn't about 'storming the battlements', but the mention of Bastille Day, brought this tale back to mind …
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

Poor Rich Man/ Poor Man, Rich

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 21 Jul 2017

Poor rich man, loved for all his cash … Poor rich girl, clothes and “friends” galore… Poor man, rich in … Poor girl, rich in …
Philosophy
Poem
Certificate U
Gold cherry

Tangled Threads

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 25 Jul 2017

Not long ago when mail was slow across the ocean waters (and phone costs high in days gone by) communication’s steady flow of parted love was written...
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Moss

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 02 Aug 2017

(an allegory) A rolling stone will gather no moss – oh, what a loss, no coating of moss; brushed and rubbed and scrubbed and worn, no stillness for...
Philosophy
Nature
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

How long is high?

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 03 Aug 2017

‘Mary can reach the table bottom, I can reach the top, Dan can reach the curtain rail – but where does growing stop? ‘Dad can’t reach the ceiling,...
Children's
Humour
Poetry Monthly
Certificate U
1 likes
Gold cherry

The Piano

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 14 Aug 2017

(investment returns 25 years after his death)
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Autobiography
Non-fiction
Certificate U

He made his mark

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 22 Aug 2017

First day at school, in a dazzled daze, instructions unheeded he disobeys, wandering around after lunch in a dream, drifting indoors, unnoticed,...
Humour
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

Independent (?) Teenager

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 28 Aug 2017

Feet skid in a flurry … ‘Good timing, again.’
Humour
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Memories of this summer

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 15 Sep 2017

A bush full of gooseberries … Family come to visit … sorting, cleaning toys galore … Lovely country strolling despite his weary pain –
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

A happy old lady

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 20 Sep 2017

Her face, full of wrinkles, quite suddenly crinkles, her one good eye twinkles …
Love
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Last seen 43 years back

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 29 Sep 2017

The longish garden seems so small … recall the child’s eyes' view of long before. …
Autobiography
Poetry Monthly
Certificate U
Cherry

Press Ax3, Press C …

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 05 Oct 2017

My mother wasn’t practical … Mum fought into a cereal box … her watch displayed a time one hour wrong …
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

Never say ‘bored’!

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 12 Oct 2017

I’m b o r e d ! What! … an intriguing, intricate world to explore that cannot, really cannot, ever anybody bore!
Philosophy
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

The Tale of the Clutterbug and the Minimalist

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 16 Oct 2017

Clutter propagates, from stuffed drawers emerges, submerges … “but where is that thing that I kept just in case …
Humour
Poetry Monthly
Certificate U

Getting Ready (and other fun pieces)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 18 Nov 2017

Woven together in the depth of the womb, expelled in due time to a sheltering home … Aghast if a child left to flounder unfed, don’t leave them to blunder in the world, unled.
Philosophy
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

A Friend in the Storm

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 04 Dec 2017

A tender touch brings comfort through the storm, with a caring, encouraging word to warm, though slander lash, and thunder crash, support can enfold...
Love
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Peeping at the Borrowed Plumes

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 07 Dec 2017

– let’s peep through the banisters for a view of glittering jewels on sparkling dress … for a night …
Children's
Poetry Monthly
Certificate U

Does Santa have a budget?

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 26 Dec 2017

*approx 7 and a half years old* — “Why can’t I ask him for a horse … a bike … (or was it a car?) …” (I didn’t want a horse or bike … [and certainly not a car!] …
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

A sweeping saga remembered!

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 21 Feb 2018

We were living in a tied-cottage (just a house really!) but it came with the job, and come the end of term, my husband brightly suggested he’d … where had the brush stuck?!
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

Confined

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 09 Mar 2018

Dashing here and dashing there, never any time to spare; now she can but lie and stare, watch while others work and care. When she has a need, must...
Philosophy
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Don’t tell Daddy!

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 10 Mar 2018

“We’ll tuck them away in here – don’t say! … “Daddy – that drawer …
Humour
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

No Mamihlapinatapai

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 03 Apr 2018

… We cannot catch, and lock a look of empathy …
Love
Poetry Monthly
Certificate U
Cherry

AS* eye-contact progress

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 24 Apr 2018

[age about 5 ]: I cannot catch his glance, his eye – I wonder why? … and the day the day-old father met his daughter‘s gaze in a hand-held head.
Autobiography
Poetry Monthly
Certificate U
2 likes

Do I have a choice?

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 28 May 2018

May I choose life? Have I any rights?
Love
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Teen Training!

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 19 Jun 2018

“Do it yourself!”
Humour
Love
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Blueprint

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 05 Jul 2018

Fertilization – unique genome new DNA combination, triggered multiplication, differentiation, organ formation – preparation new person nine months...
Nature
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

From a troopship, July 1945

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 09 Jul 2018

The place – he’s in a troopship on the way; the why? long journey home, he fills each day recalling memories of years abroad in war, his toil...
Biography
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

The Jacket

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 09 Aug 2018

About 1983, my mother bought me a jacket – bargain of the sale! – here it is now (– hole in the pocket – who’s to know? doesn’t show! dilatory and...
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Measure Accurately?

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 20 Aug 2018

(three family tales)
Humour
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Pseudocoma (LIS)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 29 Oct 2018

Couldn’t scream couldn’t move, couldn’t speak could think and blink – once for ‘yes’, twice for ‘No’: some easing of stress and distress – they know...
Love
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Convenient(?) Forgettery!

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 15 Nov 2018

‘Remember when …’ “Don’t bring that up again , Mum!” ‘I’m not about once more to …
Children's
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Life-long waitings

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 27 Nov 2018

waiting … waiting … waiting …
Philosophy
Humour
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

An 18 month-old meets Penelope the Penguin

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 31 Dec 2018

‘Hello! I’m Penelope the Penguin’ (Mum wriggling bright hand puppet) “He-ow” (huge smile from ear to ear, shining eyes) …
Children's
Humour
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

The Value of the Gift

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 14 Jan 2019

To give a present less in value than others give – in terms of money – can be a Christmas fear for some – and debt results if they succumb. And...
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Something to hold on to

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 08 Mar 2019

(about 1978) She liked to take a toy with her whenever we went out somewhere, a token somehow of return – but didn’t always grip with care, so custom...
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Gladys Aylward and Tenzing

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 08 Mar 2019

(about 1980) School Fete, fancy dress: Gladys Aylward and Tenzing. Tenzing frowns, suffering from the June heat I think, engulfed in his parka, and...
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Dear Dad … 1)

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 14 Mar 2019

(he died in 1969, nearly 50 years ago, and I am imagining talking to him about the world now. Nothing mystical, just an interesting exercise thinking of the changes of 50 years. This is supposed to be the first of a series, but whether other ideas will take clear form, I don’t know – not this week anyway!)
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Non-fiction
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

The mask melting at 98

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 04 Apr 2019

updating 'Inconnu', nearly 94 [a book that’s closed, with cheerful cover …]
Biography
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Dear Dad … 2)

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 11 Apr 2019

[not about 50 years of technological changes this time, but about Mum’s life after his death …]
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Autobiography
Biography
Certificate U
1 likes

Where is he? Where is she?

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 15 Apr 2019

First long journey on his own – we’d meet mid-way at Birmingham. Dad at home, the telephone rings: ‘Will you accept this call?’ A voice begins, ‘I’ve...
Humour
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

An unsought win

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 14 May 2019

I wrote about this incident some time ago, but thought to have another go for this week’s IP.
Humour
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

Merry Royal Wives of Windsor

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 18 May 2019

Happy and merry to welcome a boy – mother, aunt, grandma united in joy for safety, and love at a new addition with Mum and child in healthy condition, for though …
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

Musical Associations X3

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 04 Jun 2019

mother-in-law: She’s nearly 100, but remembers a tune her mother used to play and sing – can try to sing to me now – ‘De-dum, dum-dum …’ but can’t...
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

No-fault Divorce?

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 17 Jun 2019

'No-fault' divorce can sound so kind, no long legal hassle, nor wearisome grind …
Philosophy
Love
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Add children …

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 27 Jun 2019

order transformed to chaos …
Children's
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Enjoyment, not jealousy

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 01 Aug 2019

"We’ve got a new baby in our house … – my baby sister …"
Children's
Love
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

KidsSpeak

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 19 Aug 2019

On prematurely awaking from a car-nap, Little boy lost …, Nearly three – “You can’t see me!”, How long is high?, A 5-year old’s bedroom
Children's
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
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from the bus' mouth …

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 22 Aug 2019

"Twenty past nine, at the village green, the forthcoming happenings as yet unseen. Who would be coming along to pay and purchase a ticket for town today? …
Drama
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Tiny Water Footprints

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 26 Aug 2019

‘Why is there water on the kitchen floor?’ We look through the dining room door and see tiny footprints wet, in a row crossing the the vinyl, glint...
Children's
Humour
Poem
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Dear Dad … 3)

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 06 Sep 2019

(For the third of these letters, I had been working on trying to explain some of the moral pressures and changes of 50 years on, but not an easy topic, but, prompted by the current IP, I thought I should persevere.)
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Non-fiction
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Playing with a box …

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 07 Sep 2019

The children found a box on the ground, sealed, and bound with tape. ‘What could be inside it? What could be concealed?’ They wondered, imagined...
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Later gifts

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 23 Sep 2019

Golden leaves and silvering crown …
Philosophy
Nature
Love
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A jewel, a flower and a friend

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 02 Oct 2019

Sharp and shiny …incorruptible … expensive jewel … Soft and tender, fragile … soothing … warm and smiling: transient beauty … exquisite flower …
Philosophy
Love
Poem
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Light Parties, Oct 31

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 28 Oct 2019

Longer, dark night – playing with fright? raise up the Light, festive fun bright, no trick, taunt, or gore, or ugly costumes from the store (throw-away single use plastic to scare with the fantastic) …
Love
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That Place called Far Away

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 17 Jan 2020

“When we went to Far Away …
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New life for a hot-water bottle cover!

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 23 Jan 2020

My face is not appealing, my tummy is concealing a heart that can be hot to cheer a chilly spot. But now I’ve lost my purpose, I’m limp and lying...
Love
Autobiography
Poem
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Inconsistencies

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 25 Feb 2020

“Don’t slap the child”, though …
Philosophy
Love
Poem
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Isolation

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 11 Apr 2020

Culture shock, the norms swept away, no planning long-term, need to plan out each day. Adjustments take time, routines have been lost, some lonely,...
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A New Normal @ 100 years!

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 29 Jul 2020

“I couldn’t cope if you weren’t coming in, so I know you love me”. … Comes Covid … Will she understand, she can’t hear … a letter ‘big print’ – she loves to read with her one partly working eye if it’s ‘big print’ … accepted as us still visiting, loving. … a new ‘episode’ received every two or three days …
Love
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“Sunshine and Showers”

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 22 Aug 2020

Sunshine smiles of happiness … shower streams down …
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101

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 25 Aug 2020

So different to last year’s birthday! We havent met in person for 5 months. How will she be? We have to visit with masks (or shields). Born 21/8/1919...
Autobiography
Poem
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A Three-year old’s Imaginative Cave

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 08 Sep 2020

Six doors and a tiny window …
Children's
Humour
Poem
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One-sided

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 20 Oct 2020

< 150 words Phone not on loudspeaker
Humour
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Story
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Insensitive

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 22 Oct 2020

”Hi, Jane, haven’t seen you for a couple of years – I thought you’d have a kid by now, you used to be so keen.” Silence. No quick response. I moved...
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One of my father’s carvings

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 21 Nov 2020

Relaxation from a desk job, one of his hobbies was carving. I think the occasion for this one was probably his parents golden wedding anniversary...
Love
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A new achievement @16 months

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 15 Dec 2020

9 cubes in a square box, tip them out, chuck one back in anyhow, then 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th – 7th, 8th – maybe need a bit of a shove and push in one of the odd-shaped spaces now left, until they slide in. Now one left – …
Children's
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Poem
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Why didn’t I really like it?

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 28 Dec 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Girl_with_a_Watering_Can A copy of this was given by an aunt when I was quite young. She was loving and kindly but...
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Autobiography
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Toddler opening presents

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 31 Dec 2020

When you are one it’s really fun to tear off the paper to find what’s inside there. … And then that bag they put the wrapping paper in …
Children's
Humour
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A tooth's tale!

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 08 Jan 2021

18, and front teeth capped, filed to points and wrapped …in lockdown, the ‘full crown’ came loose One dentist had retired and appointments were scarce … get mixed with my sandwich …? …
Humour
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Poem
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Dear Dad 4*

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 18 Jan 2021

Dear Dad 4* I’m wondering what you would have thought of the present world difficulties. We were born just after the second world war finished, and...
Philosophy
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Non-fiction
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Hugs

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 22 Jan 2021

Two arms enfolding … but – … so – …
Love
Poem
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A mind made up

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 30 Jan 2021

Of strong opinion, you will find he’ll never change his mind, your temper he will cheerfully wind if you attempt it – he’ll be blind to arguments of...
Humour
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The Sad Singing Washing Machine

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 02 Feb 2021

Washing machine starts a mad beep song … her poking finger’s found a button to press to make that lovely sound … the water seal was pierced by their thin sharp pins.
Humour
Autobiography
Poem
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Trailing behind (age 7?)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 13 Feb 2021

“I wonder how long it will be? I don’t think they feel it like me – their legs are so long, and they go on and on, they know where they’re going – I hope –
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Jumping to Assumptions

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 27 Feb 2021

He thought he saw – and told his friends – a floating, waving ghost. They looked themselves and saw it was washed clothes caught round a post. He...
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Burglars beware!

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 13 Mar 2021

A burglar should keep away from homes where children roam and play, for in the dark what danger lies to give a sudden shock, surprise! Lurking...
Humour
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Two bowls

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 01 Apr 2021

His job to put fresh food waste out (and through the day she piled the lot into a bowl upon the shelf) but often he forgot. One day he heard her give a shout – ‘Where is my salad bowl …
Biography
Humour
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Smothering Love

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 05 Apr 2021

Hush! Little baby, please don’t cry! Mama your wishes will never deny! My love for you will always show – you never will hear me tell you, ‘No!’. I’...
Love
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Suddenly, not there …

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 12 Apr 2021

Whether rich or poor, kind or cruel all face those moments – someone is missing, gone, incommunicado – can’t phone, can’t see, can’t touch a final...
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A yellow world

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 26 Apr 2021

She felt like vigorously colouring in, some energetic pressing back and forth, and filling in, not delicately shading different colours in, and proudly finished and presented – a yellow rainbow, yellow cloud …
Children's
Autobiography
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So near, so far

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 08 May 2021

Unmasked smile eyes interlock through glass awhile bright twinkle, blown kiss – its touch they miss, and chatter lost – another cost for young and...
Love
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Shiny Brown

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 20 May 2021

Rain or sun we’ll have fun in the squelchy and squishy jump and splash it thickly melted-chocolate sticky of the path in the wood today: bluebells...
Children's
Nature
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Journeying over the gulf

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 26 May 2021

Can I go back? Can we heal the rift? … so far a journey, a gulf so wide
Philosophy
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Nearly two, character portrait

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 01 Jun 2021

Just enough hair for a tiny vertical ponytail on top of her head. Walking around the house in wellies (thinking: I can put these on myself – ready to...
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My ‘Mamgu’ (c.1880 - 1969)

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 04 Jun 2021

(pronounced Mam- ggy as in 'eggy', South-Wales word for Grandmother, meaning ‘dear mother’) Lived up the long hill from the town, half-way up the little mountain., by the cemetery – her husband had been the stonemason …
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The way it should be (childhood rituals)

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 17 Jun 2021

Walking up to Nursery – Grandpa in tow, going down at last the steps – ‘I go first you know’ – – mutter not by Grandpa heard, behind him Mums press...
Biography
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For a while …

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 20 Jul 2021

Her “will” was a “won’t” and her “won’t” was “I want”, but there’s safety in “don’t” and “No”, “Not now”, “Not anyhow” from loving parents with more...
Humour
Love
Poem
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False Hope

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 27 Jul 2021

Risking much for gain or loss on a superstitious toss; ‘Good’ luck fostering compulsion to a frequent repetition thus a strangling addiction slide to...
Philosophy
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Little ears are listening!

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 12 Oct 2021

… ‘over their heads?’!
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Extra sleep or extended day?

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 05 Nov 2021

Every day she wakes at 7, today it will be 6. “Breakfast at 8,” but that will be too late today and the snack will …
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Visiting hours 2 – 5

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 10 Nov 2021

Meaning well … but a bit insensitive!
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When is a pipe a tu_ _?

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 20 Nov 2021

… it’s an underground train. Some people call it a ‘pipe’ ”. !
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Procrastination

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 03 Dec 2021

It may be too late, but never too soon, to say you are sorry, and get a duty done. Never too soon to remember your promise, but better late than...
Philosophy
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The exact time for dozing!

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 22 Dec 2021

[This is a freshened up old one] The clock was slightly slow … He bought a clock that could compute … dozing, reading, time drifts by
Humour
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Toy Explosion …

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 06 Jan 2022

… at Christmas … So many toys sold – away with the old! Hide them from view, make way for the new! Presents in droves, shortage of shelves, tuck some...
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Duvet!

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 04 Feb 2022

It should be so straightforward to put a duvet in its case, but when I rush – no time to waste, I soon regret presumptive haste and find the corners...
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‘Twinkle, twinkle … what?’@102

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 23 Feb 2022

At 102 she can’t hear well and is confused and forgetful, but likes it when her grandson plays hymns and songs on his violin that she knew in younger days … and for his young daughter he plays, ‘Twinkle, twinkle little star … …
Biography
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Are you wanting to be …

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 28 Feb 2022

No man is an island though you may want to be alone, independent and totally free, private, no duties, responsibilities gone, doing just what you...
Philosophy
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If spin-dryers were uninvented …

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 07 Apr 2022

In days of yore when we were newly wed, it was awhile before we could afford a twin-tub or a spinner, and for a while I tried to squeeze – as Grandma...
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First Choice

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 12 May 2022

These three things will cost just that bit of money she’s given you – which would you like the most? You can choose – a bridge for your railway-line...
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The Old and the Young

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 07 Jul 2022

Her Daddy playing music upon his violin for older folk in Home of Care … and gently tap their feet and smile remembering past days … she scampered, pirouetted round to her Daddy’s latest tune. …‘Can we ask the dancing girl again to visit us?!
Biography
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Too much to say to bother with consonants!

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 30 Jul 2022

‘What is the picture on your birthday card?’ "box!”* ‘What does it say inside? What is that letter?’ “Uh for Deidi!*” ‘Where have you been this...
Biography
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Auntie Agnes’ Legacy

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 09 Aug 2022

… a twinkle with kindness and joy replete.…and left me with something I can’t explain …
Love
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103, not out!

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 23 Aug 2022

Some days she sleeps all day – quite determined; other days she’s just sleepy. After five days wakeful she slept all day the day before her birthday...
Love
Autobiography
Poem
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Cherry

Where's the Z?

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 25 Aug 2022

[This is a rework of a piece I wrote for an IP in 2013] Some like the stress, and mental strategies of chess; but my mother and I liked to dabble in playing scrabble – try for a double …
Humour
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November 5

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 07 Nov 2022

Fizzing fireworks brief and bright red and orange, gold and white, rocket, catherine wheel and candle, silent sparklers – carrot handle for the metal...
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Two Photographs, 30 years apart…

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 15 Nov 2022

A photograph: bright young thing – twenty-something glamorous, flirtatious, vivacious, self-centred. _______ Another photograph: thirty years later...
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Pengwndwn*

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 22 Nov 2022

From about age 7 to 14 we had a family holiday many Augusts, a fortnight in a little cottage (called Pengwndwn*) up a little overgrown lane from its...
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Autobiography
Non-fiction
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Your accent tells …

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 06 Dec 2022

They know I’m not English and ask if I’m Irish, and when that fails, they think of Wales.… …are we Wenglish? …
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Tickety, tickety, tock,

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 31 Dec 2022

Tickety, tickety, tock, all eyes upon the clock – the hand moves straight, time cannot wait – and never can flick or turn back! A second past...
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1949

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 09 Jan 2023

An end of war, blossoming joy, as waiting girl and returning boy could now be wed and optimism in every heart viewed the years ahead: work hard,...
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Autobiography
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Worked-up Fear?

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 14 Feb 2023

‘I’m afraid to go in that cupboard.’ “Why? Why are you so bothered? It’s just a box of things to do, on the shelf.” ‘I’m really afraid to go there by...
Children's
Poem
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Welshman’s caviar (bara lawr)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 27 Feb 2023

I have good memories of freshly cooked laverbread brought home by my mother from Cardiff market.
Nature
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Autobiography
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Memory Medley

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 07 Mar 2023

My parents bought the cabinet about 60 years ago to house an encyclopaedia. (I’m not sure how much those tomes were used, but in the days long before...
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Autobiography
Non-fiction
Certificate U
2 likes
Cherry

Interaction

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 13 Apr 2023

Mums, Dads, turn your eyes from your phones as you talk or listen to your children – time flies – they need to see your expression to learn the cues...
Love
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Grandpa is the repair man!

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 23 May 2023

… or 'Where is that crevice tool?! …
Humour
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Little Cook!

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 29 May 2023

A cock-eyed chef’s hat and a tired apron all askew, a small wooden bowl and spoon and …
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"A place for everything, and everything in its place!"

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 05 Jun 2023

There’s a place to put your shoes: put them back on the rack! There’s a place to put your pens: put them in the special tin! There’s a bag for dirty...
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Do I know you?

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 14 Jun 2023

I thought to meet her on Sunday morning. Is she a stranger, or not? How much do I know her now, or of the years past, her life before? Friendly, warm...
Love
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Poem
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Cherry

They aren’t there!

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 19 Jun 2023

I look at the hook, and cant believe it’s empty of jingling, jangling keys, Oh please, where did I place them, can memory trace them? when did I use them how could I lose them again? (a slight reworking of a piece in 2013)
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The Jam-man!

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 28 Jun 2023

drawer … Cistern… toilet-seat … in this chair … In case of emergency, ask …!
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How far can a little stickiness spread?

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 30 Jun 2023

Jam on their cheeks and jam on their paws, jam on the chairs, and jam on the doors: lick and pick it off the bread – How far can a little stickiness...
Humour
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The Rebel’s Regrets

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 04 Jul 2023

""I miss the farm, I miss the food, I miss the calm: It was so good. Those friends have proved so false, they spent my cash they loved, then upped...
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Nana and Grampa (c 1950-1960)

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 21 Jul 2023

Nana: Round and jolly … Grampa: Slow and gentle (slow wink) hen-pecked?…
Love
Autobiography
Poem
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Nourishing Nurture

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 31 Jul 2023

With foundational flour … and a cup of … sweeten with …
Love
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Mud fondue!

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 03 Aug 2023

A wet July is better than dry, or temperatures high – it can bring a supply of liquid mud – so good for a splash and a slither – soon chocolatey face...
Biography
Humour
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
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104!

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 21 Aug 2023

She’s failing now, much more gaunt, but still some communication and happy – happier than years ago, most of her life – but waiting. We think she’d like a present – but what? …
Love
Autobiography
Poem
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Toddler Tea!

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 14 Sep 2023

Jam on toast: like it, lick it, poke it, pick it …
Children's
Humour
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The puzzle of shadows

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 05 Oct 2023

Late afternoon sunshine. Standing side by side with 4 year-old. ‘My shadow is longer than yours, isn’t it? Is your shadow taller than you?’ She...
Humour
Autobiography
Poem
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Cherry

6 (?) to dinner

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 11 Oct 2023

6 sitting down to dinner. Grown-ups talking … 5 sitting down to dinner …
Drama
Humour
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A Hazy Memory of an Uncle’s Trick

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 17 Oct 2023

His father made him a wooden box (– I think the making gave him pleasure) … His uncle said he would, with ease open and remove something. (Just why do uncles love to tease?) …
Drama
Humour
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Autobiography
Poem
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13/11/23

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 14 Nov 2023

After expensive flats in London, three years in our annexe, now at last they have a home of their own. They moved in today – no longer behind a...
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A pigmy goat, 3 guinea pigs and some husky puppies visit …

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 15 Nov 2023

Caring Care Home: much thought given to variety of invites and activity. One day …
Philosophy
Nature
Love
Poem
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Finding the Foundations

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 17 Nov 2023

It was the beginning of 1965 that we moved to London. I was in the middle of the 4th form, and found I had to do GCE (not GCSE in those days) exams...
Spiritual
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… Well-yoked

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 23 Nov 2023

“It is a truth universally acknowledged …
Philosophy
Love
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Joyful, frugal celebration!

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 06 Feb 2024

Her ring was old, her grandma’s gold; her love, commitment new and true; her dress she’d had to borrow … no sop to superstition, or slavish following of tradition – just
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
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Cherry

Feeling to find it

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 13 Feb 2024

Off to a night-time bathroom visit she goes, touching the bed rail, the door handle … climbing back under the duvet … now where’s that bottle to warm...
Humour
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Happy families!

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 27 Feb 2024

Whine, whine, rain or shine – I never refuse to do as I’m told, but I grumble and whine, and shuffle my feet (and take plenty of time) until …
Philosophy
Children's
Poem
Certificate U
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Cherry

Capricious Satnav

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 13 May 2024

We set out our route on the satnav to travel home next day from north-coast Pembrokeshire, an easterly wriggly way. Next morning as we drove along...
Humour
Autobiography
Poem
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Cherry

Time-out Spot

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 15 May 2024

“Halfway up the slope is a spot where I stop. It isn’t at the bottom, it isn’t at the top. It isn’t in the town, nor yet up on the hill, but this is...
Humour
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Uncle Claus

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 02 Jul 2024

He travelled far, he travelled wide, never was he satisfied. Nowhere to escape or hide, no young girl who’d be his bride. Then one day this house he...
Romance
Humour
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Extract!

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 11 Jul 2024

Little (molar) tooth so ragged, broken now just small and jagged: need to take out what remains, anaesthetising likely pains, but the roots are odd...
Autobiography
Poem
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Not to everyone’s taste!

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 15 Jul 2024

“Just a spoonful of sugar halps the medicine go down … in a most delighful way” ‘I want to feel well but not with that awful strawberry-pink taste...
Humour
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Autobiography
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A garden is …

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 14 Aug 2024

… a haven, unconfined, giving rest of mind: beauty and utility, flowers or veg, cultivated or wild, fence or hedge – and for a child a place for...
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Fading, but happy – 105!

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 23 Aug 2024

Emotional and vague, but seeming to appreciate … A card from the King … The staff gather and join us in singing ‘Happy Birthday’ as the grandson played the violin.
Autobiography
Poem
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Reaching out …

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 10 Sep 2024

Remote from … Reach out from remoteness …
Love
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
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‘What’s up??’

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 20 Sep 2024

‘Why is Mummy so busy? Why doesn’t she seem to hear me when I speak? …
Children's
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Poem
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Kathleen, Gladly, Teleri

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 08 Oct 2024

… the ‘Kathleen’ substitution! … the eyes of the bear were probably rather close together … A tom-boy, but …
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Autobiography
Poem
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Making or Breaking

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 15 Oct 2024

How wonderful to be a home-maker: … but …
Philosophy
Love
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Poem
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To kill a fly …

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 29 Oct 2024

That irritating buzz from somewhere nearby when nearly time for sleep – sounds like a mozzie/fly. He skulked around with swatter-bat but nothing...
Biography
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Poem
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