"You're a funny looking thing" he said "Have you seen yourself lately?" I said "I'm sick of your weird looks" he said "I'm sick of you full stop" I said Half a century and not another word said We know each other is there But we won't turn our heads. #heacham #norfolk

Today's Postcard Pop is a short story rather than a poem, inspired by a line on a postcard from Fleetwood to Blackburn in 1967. #lancashire #shortstory #flashfiction #postcard

White Roses and Red Geraniums: The Squirrel Dilemma smellynature999.blogspot.com…

Murder Tax Evasion Alcoholism Theft Are strange lures for the tourist honey Cornwall declares it is all about money. #cornwall #Postcard #Smuggling

My lichened postbox poem @letterappsoc It can take lifespans But nature will reclaim All she yielded to our hands Extract, heat forge ore Mould it to shape Paint so that it is livid, raw But the earth's green cover Will edge over each year And claw it back to its waiting mother

I had a girlfriend who lived in Brighton She was called Marina She had never been to sea And drove a Ford Cortina I phoned up her flatmate Who said she hadn't seen her She treated me so badly But it only made me keener. #Brighton #postcard