Greetings

I'm not sure how long we all go on greeting each other with a jolly Happy New Year, I suppose until we have met all our friends at least once since the start of 2014. The weather however is making us all far from happy and the forecasts are more of the same. I guess we will all just have to knuckle down and get on with life, and work and training as it hits us.
my charity fund raising ground to a halt during December, when everybody had other things on their minds but has now started to move again. www.justgiving.com/Daphne-Belt if you like any of my poems so much you feel like justgiving!

Wind

Blowing on the window and through my cluttered life

Swirling leaves knocking down the flora, bringing garden strife

Blustering o’er me and them and you

This is what Madam Wind, you darned well do

Turn your ugly face away or blow until you bust

Then turn the sweet one round but one we cannot trust

That these gentle licks picking up, examining my hair, do not last

A waft of coolness, then too soon that delightful phase is past.

 

Moths 

Silent but deadly little things wouldn’t you say

They look harmless enough fluttering about at play

Tiny little flecks of beige wings like paper

When you clap at them they break up like vapour

Uninvited guests that move in when your back is turned

This is a lesson that only through time is learned

They hide in your closets and not by your leave

No rent is paid and they eat up half a sleeve

Of that nice woollen coat you kept so long for best

Might as well come back now and chew through the rest

Moths are the reincarnation of bad friends we’ve had so long

Don’t realise the damage until long after they are gone