Tales of a City Trail
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Cog in the Car Factory You travel all night. Where do you go in your mind? Further than we drive? A popular Japanese tourist attraction is the car factory. Toyota has...
Drive Less Feel More Embrace the release of your mind from the wheel. Let the tips of your fi ngers touch light and not steel. Watch raindrops power into foil lake and...
The Candy Store Inside a hard shell, honeyed welcome, sweet tooth grin. Favours for strangers. Monday afternoon and the kids are tired, hot and grumpy. We spot a candy...
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...
When Granny Fell Out of the Overhead Locker When Granny fell out of the locker on the flight to Tenerife the steward said she’d be safer securely stored under my seat...
A while back the local paper published news of an innovative solution to bank holiday gridlock in the Lakes. Reaction was split; some said the Windermere cable car bid...
Temple of Consumption Shiny temple burns not incense but city waste. Shrine to consumption. At the end of Hiroshima’s main boulevard there’s a dazzling building that’s...
Bed of the Lake
Cashmere Coniston
Family memory foam
dreams of wild swimming
A cloud has always been many things to many people. A fluffy child’s drawing, the stuff of wedding nightmares, a sofa for the angels, a thing to dress up as. But...
About Author
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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