Day the twenty-sixth

Today the prompt is to answer a list of categories and use the answers for a poem. I have a short attention span and the first category is weather - so - rain.


Chorley Market

Today is a Chorley Market sort of day
A buying faggots sort of day
A buying biscuits sort of day
A buying second hand biscuits sort of day
A buying fabric sort of day
A buying black pudding sort of day
A buying cheese sort of day.

Today is a Chorley Market sort of day
Where the puddles are congregating
Where the cars are lined up in by the station
Where the queues have umbrellas
Where the buses hiss and splash
Where the cafe windows are steamed up
Where the rain drips down your neck.

Yes, today is a Chorley Market sort of day.

Day the tenth

Today the prompt is to write a hay(na)ku - I have decided to expand the form into a pseudo sonnet for our times:

Easter


long
hours of
holiday weekend traffic

today
we expect
no-one to come
but there are cars

sunshine
bathes the
landscape in soft
and rainless light and
tempts the hibernating into life

but there are less cars today
so perhaps people will stay away