How Can I Begin?

The photos should have been with yesterday's post, but I was having so much trouble getting any images on at all, I decided one was enough. However, in a way they link into today's post - it was the beginning, or dawning, of a very beautiful day...






This poem is related to Better the Beginning, and yesterday's Writer's Workshop... I think I played around with the idea for a while, about why I was there, and the actual process of writing. In this one, I also played with a whole lot of sayings.






Once someone said to me that I shouldn't use sayings, because everyone said them, and they had no value. My reply was that, though unoriginal, a saying instantly conjures up an idea that needs no further explanation. For most people, a proverb or saying 'says it all'. And, while I prefer originality, that's not to say I don't like the simplicity of an oft-used expression (why else is it so well used, but that everyone knows what it means, and that it is very often true!). So, I wrote this not long after (a deliberate baiting, perhaps?! :-) )

[Poem How can I begin? removed for publishing Aug 2017]

Ok, so it's another of those that could well have stayed at the bottom of the drawer, but it's kind of part of 'the team' with the other two mentioned, so here it lies [Long may it RIP].

(note to self: really could do with zoom lens
and tripod for Christmas - who can I ask?!)