~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 161 ~ main post here ~ https://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/todays-short-poem-161/ * Popping Over the Platform They call them maisonettes half a house really We’ve got the bottom half we didn’t want any stairs They’re new, built on scrap land near the train station I…

#photograph #Old #Wooden #Stairs http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/10254176_327002357480569_1182689865_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph Still going round – #London #SouthBank http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/1739738_551284135001939_711560435_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #Rocks – #Cliff #Face, #Penarth, #SouthWales http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/10543026_1491375197770481_1154519310_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 160 ~ main post here ~ https://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/todays-short-poem-160/ * Bare feet down bare stairs. Anaglypta torn brown backing paper. Cigarette smoke hangs in cloudettes, mingles with yesterday’s garlic the way that friends mingle just because they’re…

~ ~ #Poem perspex egg ~ main post here ~ https://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/poem-perspex-egg/ * A 6′ perspex egg rests on the river bed Cyclone, aura, egg, capsule The hatch is open to dig into shale and mud down into history the sudden mist on Dartmoor London’s neon A warm smile and…

#photograph #Penarth #Beach – #South #Wales http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/10623760_349350155223671_1949272092_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph On the #Horizon #Flatholm and #Steepholm #Islands – #Cardiff #Bay, #South #Wales http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/10518052_1484061221864012_1839269369_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #Young #Coot – #Roath #Park #Lake, #Cardiff http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/10518021_1503311149913019_697296638_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #Market – #Morocco http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/10643992_536743343139223_1122071715_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #Sun on #Water – #Cardiff #Bay http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/10691738_354264851413568_267686390_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #Rooftops – #Salisbury, #England http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/1530654_753634361363196_1279810020_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 159 ~ main post here ~ https://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/09/24/todays-short-poem-159/ * Tractors In green fields Should be red Ashley Bovan http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ashbovan.wordpress.com/329/

~ ~ #Poem in a truck ~ main post here ~ http://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/09/24/poem-in-a-truck/ * I’m in a truck Wet, darkish daytime Phrygian music shuffles on iPod Country fields shuttle past Bullocks Chickens Cock Shafts of light cut in Puddles hiss Tarmac crack judders Fulcrum…

~ ~ #Poem Photos of Shadows ~ main post here ~ http://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/09/23/poem-photos-of-shadows/ * The air, up and down this road, aches. I spy through a window a demented man. I hear screams a madhouse cell a 60s film. Sorry, but it’s all gone wrong. I was told what to do…

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 158 ~ main post here ~ http://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/09/23/todays-short-poem-158/ * Evening Out I can’t see a thing No moon, no stars My feet evolve super-sensors This lane cambers centre to sides I know, ahead, there’s a dip, down to a bridge over a dribbly…

#photograph #Plane flies over the #Plain – #Salisbury http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/1517165_364696527020418_2092107725_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #Door #Handle – #Salisbury #Cathedral http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/10693304_713370695416680_780471368_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph In the distance the outline of the remains #Old #Sarum #Cathedral, from 1092 http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/1596947_1484102948510569_478795902_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph on the #Floor of #Ely #Cathedral, #Cambridgeshire #England http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/10299649_261114940678984_1321018372_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #London #Sky #Red http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/10543056_575915129181806_1816029517_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #Flower – #Roath #Park, #Cardiff http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/10707215_743759455695093_1813693493_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #Sky – #Swansea #Beach, #South #Wales http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/1971443_1527718434110256_1015097898_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 156 ~ main post here ~ https://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/todays-short-poem-156/ * I made charcoal from pine and wrote to you on the side of our rock If you’re quick, before the rains you will read it but I think you will be delayed Perhaps, to avoid…

~ ~ #Poem 0@all ~ main post here ~ https://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/poem-0all/ * From inside an old file box I dug out a black and white photo from 40 years ago – not colour; I’d developed it myself. How long were we together? 3 years? Not long; not now - but back then we really packed…

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 154 ~ main post here ~ https://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/09/20/todays-short-poem-154/ * Long ago, we dreamt, and no one could touch us. We walked through the park to sit by the river and float out to sea. The sun shone and we smiled and felt so clean to be in a world of…

#photograph #Geese – #Roath #Park #Lake, #Cardiff http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/10684023_376257245855006_1397348091_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph Old #Chimney near #Ely #Cathedral http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/10693444_693595627393863_1024127644_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 155 ~ main post here ~ http://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/09/21/todays-short-poem-155/ * I’ll meet you in the sky dawn-light in your eyes Ashley Bovan http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ashbovan.wordpress.com/326/

~ ~ #Poem sandwiches and biscuits ~ main post here ~ http://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/09/21/poem-sandwiches-and-biscuits/ * I wheel in sandwiches and biscuits the tea is brewed old wooden trolley You’re blank, wall-staring brown photographs drop to the floor I know if the right fingers snapped…

~ ~ #Poem Allowance ~ main post here ~ http://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/09/20/poem-allowance/ * I hope it’s temporary but you keep on. My disappointment stacks up like undigested beef. I’ve rolled you over and over, tried to turn poison into nutrient, punished myself to learn good. Like an…

#photograph #Art inside #Tate #Britain http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/10693503_330726853767074_1919914884_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph Outer #Mounds – #Old #Sarum #Hill #Fort http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/10541891_740366956052292_1556863968_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

#photograph #House by the #Canal – #Venice http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/10541992_366246523537843_448067581_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

~ ~ Today’s Short #Poem 153 ~ main post here ~ https://ashbovan.wordpress.com/2014/09/19/todays-short-poem-153/ * An endless mishmash of logical plot lines coke on the mirror Just find answers make it up yourself Sleep well Ashley…

~ ~ #Poem Anna ~ main post here ~ https://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2014/09/19/poem-anna/ * I love you, mange tout. Your lips fix my eyes, my prize; my bliss, to kiss you. You are fond of me, probably, and allow me to show you servitude; and that’s cool, perhaps you’ll come to love me. You, let…

#photograph #Steps #Up from the #River #Avon, near #Bath http://ashleybovan2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/929227_700999913309538_188375396_n.jpg?w=640&h=640

Curled on the bed, smiling like a cat in front of a fire crescent-shaped she laughs, like flesh-pink A snapshot A picture I kiss into life A few-frame flick-movie compacted decades Overlapping images stick and colour me So much more here when I add history more than is in the clean moment - the…

Horizon I had a mother once. Sweet peach Who fed me, Washed me, Dressed me, Is now an old lady.

Rat dives into dirty old river, couples and singles pass engrossed, mangy roses, black taxis, flocking sparrows, roadsign to Dagenham, mobile phones, past the elephant and Castle Underground Station, gratings, wet litter bins, terrible tent-like white cotton top, wood bench, damp, munching, moping,…