~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 188 ~ main post here ~ http://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/todays-short-poem-188/ * (Sitting I) Waves smash this jut of rocks, this jagged triangle. I’m at the tip, sea-level, breathing the spray. It was a dawn-call, a short walk to the beach, a tricky clamber, a flat…

~ ~ #Poem underaged Schnapps ~ main post here ~ http://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/poem-underaged-schnapps/ * In the old bar in Melchtal we played the jukebox Gates of Eden over and over One night men sang to us and I slipped a souvenir ashtray under my jacket We drank underaged…

~ ~ #Poem I Must Spend More Time Upside Down ~ main post here ~ http://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/poem-i-must-spend-more-time-upside-down/ * Woke up this morning thumped and wrinkled cast back to new-born blindness Dodgem car collisions into fixtures and fittings leave me shocked but…

~ ~ #Poem Splints ~ main post here ~ http://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/poem-splints/ * forgot to strap on my splints today and all the normal knocks hurt my broken bits my knees buckled sucked my thoughts down I resolved to purchase a suitably decorated walking- stick, as a prop – not…

~ ~ #Poem Clear Morning ~ main post here ~ http://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/poem-clear-morning/ * Clear Morning still counting waves busy sky fulmars smash centre fly free cross- leaved spray jagged common razor-wing gull sandpiper summer’s only home promising harbours touched portals…

~ ~ #Poem Sanctus ~ main post here ~ http://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/poem-sanctus/ * I carried a pebble from my Cardiff garden to the Lady Chapel, St David’s Cathedral, and hid it in a small hollow, south wall. Madly, I snapped a million photos of stained-glass windows, like I…

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 189 ~ main post here ~ https://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/todays-short-poem-189/ * Aftermath slurred from death bed dragging cobwebs pils and pills and terrace demolition blitz flash light crashing crushing thumps blooded vision chuck bogged clammed please crank and…

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 191 ~ main post here ~ https://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/todays-short-poem-191/ * (Sitting II) I’m here now on the cliff edge like a rock, like the trunk of a gorse bush. The fulmars fly and look and I look. Them, on their way back home after a busy day, me, sitting…

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 192 ~ main post here ~ https://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/todays-short-poem-192/ * Couple Pink scrunchy around wrist, butter-kissed tresses fall to small of back. I’m bad. A sadist in my forehead twists a bayonet. She says, I love you, like a song. Ashley…

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 193 ~ main post here ~ https://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/todays-short-poem-193/ * Collider I wanted to talk time-travel but you flipped to sci-fi like I had no heart, like it wasn’t real. I wanted to talk guts and eyes not tired opposites. I wanted to remember when…

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 194 ~ main post here ~ http://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/todays-short-poem-194/ * I like you you’re odd that’s all I want to say light three protected picture inhale air white level clear soft 12 safe imagine below three exhale cocoon see three, count three exhale…

~ ~ #Poem Embryo ~ main post here ~ http://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/poem-embryo/ * Someone’s daughter carves dirty curves sunwards affirms and circulates Proud thoughts shudder absurdly stamp into the initiate Yet, this needle makes little marks halts and sweats (with woken worry)…

#photograph #Chimney #View – #Old #Salisbury ~ http://ashleybovan.blogspot.com/2014/10/chimney-view-old-salisbury.html http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/10724254_1535826083302173_933506043_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #Cormorants – #Cardiff #Bay ~ http://ashleybovan.blogspot.com/2014/10/cormorants-cardiff-bay.html http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/10735576_983926018291090_1384655546_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #Penarth #Pier – seen from #Cardiff #Bay #Barrage ~ http://ashleybovan.blogspot.com/2014/10/penarth-pier-seen-from-cardiff-bay.html http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/10731884_388166921330839_1846104159_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 195 ~ main post here ~ http://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/todays-short-poem-195/ * All your spellweaving falls off the loom into a ditch - the hole that lies between what is and what will never happen - a mess of tangled threads You hack through umbilicals like…

~ ~ #Poem Living in Porridge ~ main post here ~ http://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/poem-living-in-porridge/ * Living in porridge is being nice is cosy no swine flu They pack you in tunnel down your sight get you to perform Who’s gawping at who? This chair is decades old folk from around…

#photograph #Old #Wood #Panel – #Ely #Cathedral ~ http://ashleybovan.blogspot.com/2014/10/old-wood-panel-ely-cathedral.html http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/10731956_484862198323742_275495224_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #Rock – #Penarth #Beach, #South #Wales ~ http://ashleybovan.blogspot.com/2014/10/rock-penarth-beach-south-wales.html http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/10727715_1492680287682243_483191890_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #Sunset – #Newport, #SouthWales, seen from the train ~ http://ashleybovan.blogspot.com/2014/10/sunset-newport-southwales-seen-from.html http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/10735571_925846520776746_2410361_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

~ ~ #Poem Joker ~ main post here ~ http://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/28/poem-joker/ * You don’t wait in hope you play your best cards you bluff shuffle from one game to another see what’s in the pot up the stakes grab a slice of the action Later, you notice the chips dropped by the…

#photograph #Tower #Bridge, #London – sailing along the #Thames ~ http://ashleybovan.blogspot.com/2014/10/tower-bridge-london-sailing-along-thames.html http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/10735544_309638432571635_1760082883_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 197 ~ main post here ~ http://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/todays-short-poem-197/ * You’re Free When you smile you look like a push-over, and your voice is silly. OK, you say, and giggle, and anyway, (I think I love you) it’s like a question, right? Yep. Ashley…

~ ~ #Poem Seasons End, Never to Return ~ main post here ~ http://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/poem-seasons-end-never-to-return/ * No one said final episode. No one said temporary, move on, let it go I know I’m just a small cog in a big fish-tank, I don’t expect events to conform to my…

#photograph #Step – #Penarth #Beach, #SouthWales http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/10508026_704403799642012_787519946_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #Flower http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/10724778_373121592840715_1592079995_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #Table in the #Sun – #Salisbury http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/10725102_1613413728886130_1614969701_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #Cardiff #Bay #1 http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/10724736_595693103886105_1613628160_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #Cardiff #Bay #2 http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/10623652_386249824858402_1337037460_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #Crow – #HeathPark, #Cardiff http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/10724812_1479259789007750_1210330868_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 176 ~ main post here ~ http://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/todays-short-poem-176/ * Ascending Today Up and up steps and steps to the church on the hill I don’t like tourists They’re vulgar and stupid doing places on their checklist Nothing sacred about Sacré…

~ ~ #Poem face the squall ~ main post here ~ http://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/poem-face-the-squall/ * I had to go stand on the cliff edge face the squall feel it blow away this play me turn me play me let my toes grip the edge I saw a body floating in the…

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 177 ~ main post here ~ http://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/11/todays-short-poem-177/ * Ah, John We made you paint your face and dance Killed you Shot you Ashley Bovan http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ashbovan.wordpress.com/346/

~ ~ #Poem Lotus ~ main post here ~ https://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/11/poem-lotus-2/ * I imitate the call of a devotee. My voice in the silence axes the chains of time, conjures swirls, arcs, waves of ether. Visitors who never walk this earth wake me from dreams they bring homeliness from…

#photograph #Bricks #Wall http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/10707227_767427286658009_666246641_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #From the #Window http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/10724696_530830737052246_18618894_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #Skateboard #Park – #Cardiff #Bay http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/10725180_316050681907939_1963716209_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

~ ~ With your bottle of blood ~ main post here ~ http://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/with-your-bottle-of-blood/ * With your bottle of blood a slow transfusion sat in Hopper’s Diner for breakfast looking east window sky your bodylight fallen from black rock to venus star the rivertide on…

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 174 ~ main post here ~ http://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/todays-short-poem-174/ * Well we certainly cleared the room A couple twisters invited to lunch Two eyes calm within their own cyclone Our hosts hands on temples trembled skedaddled I guess you’re back home No…

~ ~ #Poem Focus ~ main post here ~ http://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/poem-focus/ * I am Jesus, she said. I await magi and shepherds. My manger will receive them. May the heavens direct and my scriptures inform. I shall commune with the royal and be mindful of those who tend sheep. In…