Joe gave us a piece comparing the stages of our lives to the
seasons of the year. How as people live longer, the quality and quantity of our
autumn years increases.
Joan Fr,s first poem compared the effects of a fall by a
young person compared with a fall at an older age. The second spoke of who comforts
whom after a fall at the opposite ends
of our life span.
Morag described the indescribable colours of New England in the fall and how the Native Americans
relate the colours to those to the blood of a slain bear.
Elizabeth remembered a first
and last time experience on a Ski-Doo in snowy Canada. The loss of control, fall
and painful collision with a tree could have had even more serious consequences.
The tough character in Pete’s story breezed through an army
assault course until beaten by the imagined possibility of a high fall from a
short jump.
Jack’s poem was of a day’s journey through a colourful but
decaying autumn landscape which gradually lost its attraction as the day
progressed.
Kate managed to incorporate most of the many different usages
and nuances of the word ‘fall’ into one short piece of poetry.
The rise and fall of Al Andalus was Fahmy’s theme. Moorish Spain was a
cultural centre for learning, but lost prominence following the Christian take
over.
Sandra’s poem told of the moon’s rise and fall and its
changes in shape and colour through the night and its disappearance into a
white sliver at dawn.
Hilary’s character’s fell from a wet statue of a figure
holding the scales of justice. A poetic reward for trying to crown it with a
red and white plastic traffic cone.
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More contributions to the topic “Missing”
left over from September 10th.
Joe’s character recovered consciousness to find herself a
captive. She had totally misjudged the character of that nice little old man as
she helped him load his shopping into his car.
Hilary’s tennis ball retrieving dog apologises to the tennis
club as its owner surreptitiously returns a hoard of lost balls to the club’s
premises.
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Next week:- Deadline
for Children’s under 7s Short Story.
Member’s adjudications and readings from the 24th Sept
‘Round
Robin’ project.
Open Manuscripts if time
available.
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