The Skyover Sky bridge flies over mating jellyfish while we pedal under cars. We have a beautiful day of cycling some of the bridges of the Shimanami Kaido cycle way...
Tales of a City Trail
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I love cities. I love the challenge of trying to capture something of them in poetry. This series of poems was produced as part of my 2016 #LPKidsPoetry residency with...
A Thousand Words in Two Centuries 20th Century Commission It’s great to see you How are the kids? I enjoyed your last piece Now about that feature; here’s what I need. A...
On some of the more picturesque bus routes in the central Lakes, if you can secure the panoramic window seat at the front of the top deck, you are in for a treat as...
Naoshima Pumpkin Pier end pumpkin. Nature, art and midnight gold. But no coach ride home. Naoshima is Japan’s famous art island. A place where contemporary art, nature...
Geisha Tea Party In every sip we taste the past, smiles dancing on blood red geisha lips. Kanazawa is one of the few places in Japan where Geishas still entertain. In...
During a month in Samoa we were fortunate to spend a week on a deserted beach. Well almost deserted. The illusion of an empty paradise was somewhat challenged by the guy...
Bed of the Lake
Cashmere Coniston
Family memory foam
dreams of wild swimming
Laundry Day A sun damaged cloud, singed, scorched, burnt dry. Scrubbed, rinsed and hung out on barbed wire sky. Dark, tarnished raindrop our weeping earth’s tear. Buffed...
Toytown Osaka Midnight riverscape. Flyover transformed into night sky scalextrics. We touchdown in Osaka for our first taste of Japan and drive right into the heart of...
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Kirstie Pelling
Kirstie is the creative force and chief poet in residence of poetinmotion.org She is available for residencies, as a conference poet and wedding poet. She is also co-founder of The Family Adventure Project and a regular contributor to many online travel communities.
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