New format, who dis? Which basically means I’m changing this up and now there will be one post per season rather one per month. And having thought about the sorts of things I want to share I shall now try and include at least three things that have made me happy from the following categories; … More This Sparks Joy! Winter 21/22 edition
This afternoon feels as if it sits outside the flow of time, needing to be filled with solitude and small quiet thoughts rather than flurries of words. So I offer up one of the most achingly beautiful poems I’ve read recently, instead of any words of my own: Hymn to Time Time says “Let there … More Outdoor Advent Day 21
A good one, if you’re starving, could saveyour life. A bad one would kill youafter only one bite. Step on its poison head,it billows black fumes. – a stanza from Fungi by Tamar Yoseloff I found this poem by accident when I was wandering down a few internet rabbit holes after trying to attribute the … More Outdoor Advent Day 17
This photo has such 2020 vibes I’m not sure if there’s really much more to say. Other than that I have been reading Margaret Atwood’s new poetry book Dearly and fallen in love with this particular poem which elicits, from me, the same feeling as this photo and this year: Sad Utensils The pen reft … More Outdoor Advent Day 14
I find that I have, for the moment, run out of words. So I offer instead a poem that captures my mood perfectly: Today by Mary Oliver Today I’m flying low and I’mnot saying a word.I’m letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep. The world goes on as it must,the bees in the garden rumbling … More Outdoor Advent Day 11
Not one of my own but a favourite I have not shared before: The Garden by Moonlight BY AMY LOWELL A black cat among roses, Phlox, lilac-misted under a first-quarter moon, The sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still, It is dazed with moonlight, Contented with perfume, Dreaming the opium dreams … More A Poem for National Poetry Day
Kizzia Mildmay 