Monthly Archives: April 2010

Napowrimo 30.  Today’s prompt:  do As You Like It The Napowrimo experience dragged me out of a non-writing desert which arrived along with three months of illness following seven years of online study for my BA, including three years of … Continue reading →

I think you can tell that I’m an anti-political animal.  For non-UK napo-ers, the British media are jammed to the gunnels with hype about the parliamentary election due to take place on May 5.  Front Page News Election, election, election … Continue reading →

Napowrimo 27 –  3 silly ones to kick-off Not A Nice Prompt On Tuesday. Will I Remember It Many minutes On? This Has to be the silliest, most Idiotic thing I have ever written. So there! Vivienne Is Vivacious but … Continue reading →

napowrimo #26: get scrappy   This is a mash-up from my Unfinished Poems file, including some lines written on a train, the start of an unrelated sestina, some more  written on waking from a very vivid dream and a very … Continue reading →

Napowrimo 25  Poem Number 2 The first word I saw after reading today’s prompt was a weird one, drozed.  I thought I was drozing, having got up early.  But no: Gobbledegook in senryu: drozed verification I tried to post a comment … Continue reading →

This is hardly a poem, but at least it is true.  I haven’t had time to think, as I have been doing our French income tax online ever since I got up 5 hours ago.  Maybe there’ll be another, later.. … Continue reading →

This is an old one, but fits Napowripo 24 to a T In Defence of Clichés A cliché is a wonderful thing,a means of encapsulatinga truth universally acknowledged.Or is it? At the end of the day,to be perfectly honest,safe as … Continue reading →

Zero tolerance for bad poetry Continue reading →