creative writing – Page 2

Guru J

23/06/202522/09/2025 C and K WordsLeave a comment

Nostalgic thoughts help the intricate cocktails go down as they recall their time with Guru Malcolm at university.

What they once brushed off lightly seems so interesting to the grey-haired group.

Once called an evil genius with a taste for Jurisprudence and role-playing, no one was safe from the Plato theatre. They once debated Capital Punishment through a conversation between Aquinas, Rousseau, and Bentham.

They laugh and consider how different their lives would have been if they had listened to Guru J.

Waiting

21/06/202522/09/2025 C and K WordsLeave a comment

Between human and ghost, the old one sits waiting for the inevitable.

A liminal being, he is already in a place unknown to the living ones.

His cats chirp and meow as if to say, “Hurry along, Dear. You might be tasty.”

He waits for the one who will not arrive.

Ladybugs & Bees

18/06/202522/09/2025 C and K WordsLeave a comment

The leaves rustled as the wind blew a gale through the realm.

A gathering of ladybugs hanging out in the law firms and the stock exchange, waiting for a predatory high.

Indifferent to the ladybugs, the bees like to socialise at the pub while waiting for the flowers to bloom.

Lobster Feels

15/11/202415/11/2024 C and K WordsLeave a comment

Out there with the heavy clouds hanging around you and the sea never far away from your messed up heart, I listen to you experiment with the notion that not all humans are here to grow old.

Fearful of your words, I listened to you tell me how you want to caress a Lobster.

Nature Arrives

27/03/202426/03/2024 C and K Words2 Comments

Walking through the office door
Me, out there in the swirling autumn leaves
Inside, a new mask for today

Trading nature and her beauty
for the chance to find meaning in a title
I feel the wind in my hair

Nature followed me
wind and leaves moving
Bewildered colleagues

The Shovel

22/02/2024 C and K WordsLeave a comment

Not one for gardening
you feel compelled to wear Chanel
a showy pearl necklace

An upmarket designer wheelbarrow
bedazzled gold shovel
Odd looks from passing strangers

Kitties at War

22/12/202317/12/2023 C and K WordsLeave a comment

The clowder of British Shorthairs approach from the rear; they wait for the end lapping milk.

The Persian cats take a direct approach and enter from the front. They chew on beef bacon.

The Russian Blues maneuvered: radioactive temptations dropped from the air.

Her Bookshop

20/12/202317/12/2023 C and K WordsLeave a comment

Destined to be herself, she sets out to her favourite bookshop.

The trees move their leaves, for they feel the excitement.

Arriving early for once, she cannot resist a tome with a picturesque hardcover about misunderstood Cockatoos and gossipy parrots.

The Nymph

18/12/202317/12/2023 C and K WordsLeave a comment

A Nymph on the shore; the waves move in, calling to you softly.
The words are odd, and the expression is plain.
Something from beyond whispers, please listen to the sea, so you listen to the sea for a time.
You hear sounds under the waves.
With the Nymph’s heart so close to the palace of shells, you realise this is your watery home.

I re-wrote the Sea Nymph. It was once a poem, and now it is a Very Short Story.

A Shadow

13/09/2023 C and K WordsLeave a comment

An ethereal shadow moves within the trees to find a long-forgotten clearing.

A loner follows quietly to find something forgotten within.

The shadow and the loner move towards the clearing until only the loner remains.

Moonlight and Fireflies illuminate the trees and the altar as shadows move.

The loner walks towards the altar.