Savvy Books – Old and Wise

Not sure that I need to read the latest book by Katherine Rundell!

Just came across it on a perusal of Waterstones latest non-fiction list, the title of ‘Why You Should Read Children’s Books , Even Though You Are So Old and Wise’. And no prizes for guessing why it caught my attention! Those of you who’ve devoured my book reviews will know that I spend much of my time reading children’s books, and the rest of my time recommending them to adults.

Whereas there may be adults’ titles I wouldn’t recommend to the young, old age knows no boundaries in the creative world of fiction and poetry. It’s a case of the older one gets, the more one needs a boost to the imagination – an active imagination being the most effective weapon one can have in the battle against degenerative brain disease.

Where, I hear you ask, is the supporting evidence for such a claim?

You are all the evidence you need! Try out some of the children’s books featured in my reviews and see what happens for yourself!

And, if you can’t decide which one to start with – then just order them all and draw up a reading schedule!

Go on – take your pick!

Savvy Book – Burn

Savvy Book – Fuse

Savvy Book – The Legacy

Savvy Book – The Declaration

Savvy Book – The Killables

Silly Book – The Midnight Gang

Can’t afford them all?

Then don’t order any of them – read the opening chapters of my new children’s novel, ‘The Wall’, instead. The beginning of the story is free! To get the middle and the ending for free, give me lots of likes and constructive comments, and I’ll keep on going!

Copyright owned by Jay Cool, October 2019

Watch this space for the link!

 

 

 Image by Elena Tishkova from Pixabay

Serious Poem – Electrical Slices

Fifty, one-hundred, fifty, one-hundred, fifty, fifty, …. forgot

WHOOSH!

Electrical currents slicing through my head, down my middle, down to my toes,

dizziness, spillages – milk, hot water, tea ..

then …

I remember, the thing I forgot …

the thing I was trying to come off …

Sertralin …

Keep walking, don’t think, keep walking, drinking tea, writing randomness,

not thinking …

at the same time as wading through the currents, trying to be stronger …

not to let it drown me …

trying to swim back to on the  out g o i n  g      tide …..

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Copyright owned by Jay Cool, October 2019

 
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

Serious Poem – Monday Morning

Inspired by a reading of Philip Larkin’s poem, ‘High Windows’, within his anthology of the same name, whilst struggling to come to terms with a Monday morning – helped, in part, by a pot of tea in a Waitrose cafe.

 

Spilling milk, and feeling jugged, I gather up my teapot, spilling

water – hot, on fingers immune

now,

to heat, and pain, but still

now

anxious – shaking, spilling,

wasting time

now

wasting time

apologising.

 

Sorry.

 

Stomach churns,

head hurts, –

wary.

 

Sprogs at school,

no work to call, to hear my rumbles, to watch me

fall.

 

What now?

Pot of tea and Larkin’s words:

‘High windows’ –

brought down

low.

 

Limping feet – pass

by, under window bar,

topless of torso, like plastic – the legs of a doll

snapped off from real life, just ambling along, limping, painless,                             detached.

 

Sorry.

 

Copyright owned by Jay Cool, 17th October 2019

 

Silly Poem – The Truth

Seriousish Poem – Moreover

Silly Article – Savvy Clown

 

 

Serious Poem – A Monday Quest

Frenzied poems,

I pencil down,

in quest to quash the angst of a Monday morning in

Waitrose – flowered ceramics with words of stewed-up tea.

 

Copyright owned by Jay Cool, 7th October 2019

 

Seriousish Poem – Moreover

Savvy Style – On The Flat

Savvy Book – The Hidden Life of Trees

Serious Poem – If

If this is it, then
what else?

Copyright owned by Jay Cool, October 2019

Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay

Savvy Style – Raining Flowers

Silly Poem – The Truth

Is the truth to be measured?

Does it matter how much of all of it is the bit that is true?

Or is it okay just to believe – in all of the bit of it and

all of the rest?

Copyright owned by Jay Cool, October 2019

Image by PDPics from Pixabay

Savvy Style – Raining Flowers

Perfection: A Ramble

Feeling Real Fine

Seriousish Poem – Moreover

Connecting things up with more of a moreness that goes over into

more of the same. More, or

less of all of it that’s

over.

 

 

Copyright owned by Jay Cool, October 2019

 

Image by minka2507 from Pixabay

 

Serious Poem – Never the Same

Serious Poem – Anxiety

 

Serious Poem – Never the Same

Never.

It’s never the same for those who go

back.

Not

ever.

Copyright owned by Jay Cool, October 2019

Image by Michal Jarmoluk from Pixabay

Savvy Tips – Net it!

Silly Poem – Simpatico

Mental Health: Workplace Stigma

Serious Poem – Anxiety

Shuddering waves of

washed-out goods

needing some

TLC –

needing

something.

Something, or maybe

someone

to do something,

to say something,

to say that

it’s okay, just to be

the thing,

the something,

that is

you.

Copyright owned by Jay Cool, 6th October, 2019

Image by Norman Bosworth from Pixabay

Silly Letter – Dear Mrs Moo

Savvy Style – Legs to Love

Savvy Poem – Snowdon’s Foot

Savvy Book – Fuse

Savvy Style – On The Flat

If your employer insists upon you wearing high heels,

… look for another job! Or, better still, go self-employed. There’s nothing as blissful as donning flats, day in and day out! And if, like me, you once aspired to be a ballerina – and now have arthritis, gout and everything else that could go wrong with your feet, then flats are a necessity!

And, besides anything else, then they look fab – and you can walk for miles in them ……

flats collage

Like the look? Look no further than your local supplier of Clarks, for the leathered versions. As for the plimsolls, go for New Look or Shoe Zone. Prefer the blue/green trainers? Try your luck with TK Max!

Okay, so perhaps none of these are your preferred work wear. But, who wants to work for others, if it entails cramping your style (and your toes)?

And, let’s face it, why do any of us require high heels to strut our stuff? Don’t our bums stick out anyway?

Why do we need heels to show off the round bits that all of us, male and female, and any gender on the spectrum inbetween, already have?

Copyright owned by Jay Cool, October 2019

 

Savvy Style – Princess Forever …

Savvy Diary – The Torture

Savvy Book – Giving a F**k

Silly Poem – Winter’s Approach

 

Disclaimer: I do not, currently, receive commission from any of the retailers mentioned in this post. I do, however, write book reviews as an affiliate blogger for Waterstones; to date, I have earned 40p!