living forever

young lovers

acting like fools

kissing in the street

not shy

being coy

flirting with disaster

all cool and with nothing to lose

not even spare change

two dimes rubbing together

© copyright written by Jacqueline Williams ~ May, 2012. publishing prohibited unless with the author's permission. 

being a person who writes and paints, i am always searching for new places where i can write, sketch and read. being inspired can happen anywhere and anytime. new surroundings can help refresh. while the repetitive places can hold you ransom... harbouring your ghosts. i try not to be so frequent with my visits to certain places. making them more into a cycle. one big loop. i used to go to one place religiously and now almost everything about that place irritates me. for me, nothing flows there. in the pursuit of new places to resume the creative flow finding them has it's obvious advantages. - jw        

not so disposable

my two left feet

funny as they seem

for each

only one sock remains

polka dots

stripes 

eccentric not strange

© copyright poem and photo by Jacqueline Williams. publishing prohibited unless with the author's permission. 

open mic night

last night i took the stage at Cha Island Tea's Open Mic Night. i was smack dab in the middle of the show with a whole bunch of musicians around me. the entertainment was plenty and rockin'. my segment went very well and so did the others. months ago, Cha Island was the place where i had my art up and i managed to sell three pieces! what a great way to end the month!!!   

this non-descript book i found is a poetry book by Welsh poet and writer W.H. Davies. this copy of Nature Poems and Others is a fourth impression printed in 1922. the 62 pages are filled with lovely prose on nature and life. Davies was a part of the Georgian poetry movement and lived most of his life as a tramp or hobo. he was related to the famous British actor Sir Henry Irving. his most notable work is The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp. Davies also lived in the United States and made a brief appearance in Canada, which cost him his leg from the knee down. 

ebb and flow

many droplets of rain

travel along tree branches

intertwining

harnessing the dampness

accentuating the bow

of each branch

captivating itself

until it is no more

until the grass is green

until the flowers bloom

© copyright photo and poem by Jacqueline Williams. publishing prohibited unless with the author' permission.

tangled

what remains

are a few

fragile

drops of rain

waiting to fall

waiting to burst

waiting to breath

life

again

© copyright photo and poem written by Jacqueline Williams. publishing prohibited unless with the author's permission.

the world is round

in my travels i also found this book by Gertrude Stein. it's the first Camelot printing, 1972 and if you can believe the spine hasn't even been cracked. which made taking photos of the illustrations hard. i wonder if someone bought it with the intention to read it, never got around to it and realised they had the book when doing some cleaning and decided to give it away. a shame really. books always have stories of their own. another reason why i bought this book was because of who illustrated it, Clement Hurd. he illustrated many children's books. Goodnight Moon and the Runaway Bunny are the two he is most famously known for.

just a sample of Clement Hurd's lovely illustrations that round out this tale about a girl named Rose.

at the sidewalk

between

the branches

an infinite sky

cedar wax wings

flock together

flighty as the wind

we only stop for a moment

© copyright poem and photo by Jacqueline Williams. publishing prohibited unless with the author's permission.

pillowy

billowy snowflakes

descending from the sky

like feathers flying

softly

cradling down

sleep

a deep sleep

between the clouds

© copyright written by Jacqueline Williams. photo by Jacqueline Williams. publishing prohibited unless with the author's permission.

Robert Burns

Last week i decided to go to one of my favourite secondhand bookstores, The Bookseller and browse the poetry section. I found these little gems. A three volume set of Robert Burns by Morris, all leather bound and in great condition. Lots of poems and songs to read. At the back of volume three there is a Glossary of Scotticisms. Which seems to me to be like a glossary of terms, of Scottish words from A-Z. Just in case you need brushing up on.