What rhymes with orange*...

Like most of us, I'm guessing, my diary is pretty empty these days. Even counting the Zoom meetings, drinks and quizzes BUT... I've taken a huge leap of faith and got myself a new diary which begins at the end of June.

Who knows what will be happening then? And to cheer me up, I bypassed my normal black to go for a splash of colour because, let’s be honest, every little bit of excitement helps right now. I can’t be the only one.

So here's a little diary poem for you.

An empty day

It's hard to remember the excitement
of having only those few free hours,
reading with only a neighbour’s cat
padding into the garden to break
my concentration, sleeping in the sun,
news headlines muted as a blackbird
sang somewhere at a safe distance -
not knowing then the fear of losing
myself somewhere in lockdown,
to think I once called that empty.

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*Just one word rhymes with orange apparently. And that, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is “sporange,” an uncommon botanical term for a part of a fern.