The Spectator

I am just curious,

What are you doing?

I want to know

If you’ve something brewing.

Are you ready to give me

Some loving skin,

To let the purrfect

Adoration begin?!

I know you adore me

And so I insist

Give me some loving!

How can you resist?

© Text / Image Caro Ness 2016 

 

Small

Standing here

On the edge

Of an abyss

In an emerald

Wilderness

Faced with

The feral might

Of a waterfall

I feel powerless

Puny

Insignificant 

© Text  Caro Ness 2016

Image: fstoppers.com

 Caro Ness 2016

Hollandaise

How about some lovely Hollandaise?

Guaranteed to lift any kind of malaise. 

Whisked into the greatest accompanying sauce,

Naturally, it will lift your steak or brunch*, of course.

 © Text / Image Caro Ness 2016

 * A vital component of Eggs Benedict, the best breakfast ever! 

The Weave

Oh, this is the tale of the errant weave,

Which, dammit, just chose to up and leave.

It put itself in isolation,

But now has come out of hibernation.

It abandoned me some time ago,

But was sighted on Thursday, in Belgrave Row.

And it seems it’s met another weave,

Because, guess what it’s managed to achieve?

A litter of weavelets, three or four,

Who knows there may be one or two more,

Don’t approach them, they’ve gone really wild,

They’re ferocious, ma and child.

So if you see them, cross the lane,

And pray you don’t see them ever again!

© Text / Image Caro Ness 2016 

Photo: Clare Gassmann  

Fruits De Mer

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Fancy a platter of fruits de mer?

Seafood bounty extraordinaire!

Shrimps, crabs, mussels,  lobster, aoli too,

Oysters shucked ready to swallow, no need to chew!

You’ll also find samphire, to tickle your palate,

Something  for each of you, that’s how we plan it.

So get yourself down to La Petite Bouchee,

And fill your boots! Now what do you say?

© Text / Image Caro Ness 2016 

 

The Gondola

Decaying beauty

Slowly drifting by

Viewed from a boat,

And what a boat!

A gondola 

Being silently punted

Through the canals.

Whose varnish

Looks as deep and new

As the day it was applied.

Our friends 

Are in the gondola ahead,

And as we come out

From under one of

Numerous bridges,

We catch sight of them

And the beautiful city beyond.

 © Text Caro Ness 2016 

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