Originally posted on Ripple Poetry :
So today is the humourous praise poem! ** Never ending or retreating you appear each day in diverse array Multicoloured patches of the way a family works and plays You could be a rainbow leading to treasures of faraway lands silks and spices market bazzar You could be the way…

Originally posted on Ripple Poetry :
Hot day like a trumpet blast of melodic riffs that rise but never quite fall; each note dripping into a sweat drop going flip flop on the pavement. Overheated notes trying to keep the jazz afloat fingers that won’t stop pushing the buttons in the search for cool. Calling out…

Originally posted on Ripple Poetry :
Shades of moonlight on moss singing Enchanting mermaid’s tail flicking colours of fairytale and dreaming Taste of Mission Beach rainforest tinted with sky Textures of ocean seaweed woven into waves of legend and changelings. Aquamarine a colour inbetween not quite green and not quite blue. A mermaid not quite girl and…

Originally posted on Writing for Kids (While Raising Them):
by Floyd Cooper I find inspiration in the oddest of places, at the oddest of times. Looking back after having illustrated about 100 picture books, of which only five I have also written, I find that I have been most inspired by things visual. Early in…