says my makka uncle Tommy to my Yorkshire grandad on being asked how was his journey down to see us in my Easter break from school. “He means it were chipper,” whispered Grandad when he saw me looking askance. Other words, like “bait” I had to ask about, too. “He means your “snap” said grandad. I knew “snap” meant food.

I had relatives divided by a common language and remember on my first day at a new school after we moved from West Yorkshire to South Yorkshire saying ” ‘as tha gor any spice for us laking later?” And me looking gone out, so he exaggerated the explanation “Have-You-Got-Any-Sweets-For-When-We-Play-Out-Later?” “Ah. Sorry, no.” I answered. “We’ll see thee right,” he replied. Another place is another language prize worth winning through learning. Something else they never taught you in school.

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Many thanks to Anisio for featuring “Prudent”

Prudent (Poem for NaPoMo)

“The Elephantquake” wonderfully featured by the talented Jamie Dedes in Poetry By Day

THE ELEPHANTQUAKE and other poems by readers …

knowing, skilled, intelligence; discretion, foresight; wisdom to see what is suitable or profitable. A weather forecast on a grey April morning makes you put on a coat you hope is waterproof, but not too warm because sweating in public is radge, consider whether a scarf or gloves as it may get colder. You put these in your bag. Footwear is a concern as you shiver at your feet covered up and would wear toeposts throughout winter if you could. Your bag is too small to contain another pair of shoes, so you choose a pair that half cover your toes. You are Summer up to your waist and Winter up to your head.

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“Un Poems” Thankyou to Terijo for publishing these in Literally Literary

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“Unexpected Breath (Four Vacanas)” kindly featured by Rachel in Poetry In Form.

https://poetry-in-form.com/unexpected-breath-four-vacanas-b6c67e5889b5

pause to consider opening windows to the spring of breath, bird gabble, gunned revved pulls up our streetdove cooed, icecream tuned, motorbike zipped, bee buzzed, cat loped, dog marked, DIY drilled, mowed lawn, doors slammed, gates clanged air of a day.

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Poetry Month #2: “Firewedding” Kindly published by Miriam in Miriam’s Well

https://miriamswell.wordpress.com/2017/04/02/poetry-month-2-firewedding-by-paul-brookes/ via @MiriamSagan

Many thanks to Frank Murphy for featuring four of my poems in Home Planet News Online 4

http://homeplanetnews.org/AHPNONL4-PaulBrookes.html

when all is said and done, when all goes onward, a foot forward watches for a drift of ground backwards into steps already taken, actions once more demanded in the pattern of things, whether a knot untied, or retied, or in a different arrangement, the wheel turned, or corrected. Later goes on.

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