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London’s Molten Hour

Bye, bye, people. I’ll call you later. Are you going home now? To all the dusty rented rooms, nasty pine furniture with walls on other people’s flushing toilets, Skype calls and rhythmic thuds they try to obscure with loud beats of an album on repeat. Another aeroplane. A train. We reside near transport under aContinue reading “London’s Molten Hour”

Posted byBeadedQuillJanuary 20, 2014January 18, 2014Posted inCreative Process, Life Musings, London, Poetry, Suburban MemoirTags:aeroplanes, candles, cityscapes, finding a home in London, flight-path, heather, home, house-share in London, lawn, London, London accommodation, London areas with rooms for rent, London poetry, London rental market, London suburbs, mowing the lawn, music, neighbours, noise, ordinary life, rent, rented accommodation in London, renting in London, rhythmic music, room, room-share in London, searching for life's meaning, searching for meaning in life, Skype calls, Suburbia, tea, tea making, train3 Comments on London’s Molten Hour

Would you ever live in Heather Green?

Would you ever live in Heather Green with a lamp missing a tassle from its shade? Lit tealights in the glass holders on the rented windowsill occasionally Assam from loose leaves in a pot. Would that be a life to live? Where there’s no need to mow lawns on a Saturday because you own noContinue reading “Would you ever live in Heather Green?”

Posted byBeadedQuillJanuary 19, 2014January 19, 2014Posted inCreative Process, Imagination, London, Poetry, Suburban MemoirTags:Assam, candles, cityscapes, eco-consciousness, finding a home in London, green living, heather, home, house-share in London, lampshade, lawn, London, London accommodation, London areas with rooms for rent, London poetry, London rental market, London suburbs, mowing the lawn, ordinary life, rent, rented accommodation in London, renting in London, room, room-share in London, searching for life's meaning, searching for meaning in life, Suburbia, supermarket, tea, tealights, teapot6 Comments on Would you ever live in Heather Green?

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