I love the days of me and my girlIn the sun watching clouds unfurlOr on the couch watch a favoured movieLaughing and loving being togetherly I love the nights of my and my girlPlaying the bend and stretch and curlFeeling the love between our skinLetting the cooling sweat soak in I love the mornings of me and my girlBedsheets and hair turned in a whirlDizzy with dreams had of each otherOf enchanted lands, lives and lovers I love these times of me and my girlThe seconds, minutes, ho...

The world is out there

But this room is a comfort

The box glow keeps me warm

And I feel safe here, inside

Pictures from out there

Make me paranoid, checking the doors

I don’t want anything in here

Giving rise to my insecurities

 

So don’t come knocking

Cause I won’t answer

I might say I’m going away

But do I really mean it?

 

My world is encapsulated

In the cotton wool of possessions

Too much is never enough

To ...

Try as I might, I have been finding it particularly difficult to rise to the latest JUWC challenge. The fact that both Tova and Roy have done such particularly good jobs with theirs has left me bereft of ideas. Every time I try to start something, it evolves into a very poor second to Tova’s wonderful entry.

But the words she chose are absolutely fantastic. Some of them I’d heard of before and had even added to my vocabulary (such as rive, odious and usurp). Others I’d read ...