Monthly Archives: June 2010

For Carolee’s Big Tent prompt to write about the oil spill, or to freewrite about the impossibility of writing about the oil spill.  This effusion emerged from my freewrite. Black Death revisits      The soup of time endlessly re-invents itself, … Continue reading →

  Rallentanda wants us to find some music for  summer twilight to accompany a terza rima sonnet.  After a steep learning curve, and with gratitude to Barbara for her impeccable instruction, I have managed to insert the two you-tube clips, … Continue reading →

For Big Tent Prompt 7, http://bigtentpoetry.org/category/ring-1/  to write a poem using words from a Wordle: resent, praise, stars, dangerous, hungry, dark, part, cough, comfort, milk, dull. Hungry  Hungry for praise, the small boy shows off. Hungry for comfort, for milk and … Continue reading →

The Ponte Vecchio – the top lot of small windows along the bridge and continuing at right angles , goes right to the Pitti Palace, and contains the rarely-to-be-seen Vasari gallery of self portraits from the Rennaissance to the present day.  … Continue reading →

These are  for http://rallentanda.blogspot.com/ - Monday’s prompt is for a bit of Italiano.  I have two formal poems for you: Terzanelle in B flat minor Impromptu intermezzo, evening music fills the air from Italianate terrazzo for the lonesome millionaire, a bittersweet … Continue reading →

This is for: http://writersisland.wordpress.com A dogged Dame The gift of perseverance was given to me at birth. Half-baked in my youth, in middle age it faltered, but by the time my seventies came it flourished with a vengeance. Bachelor of … Continue reading →

An arrived poem about a beautiful lady. Continue reading →

Sorry to overload the system, folks, but here’s my feeble not completely angry best for Friday’s Big Tent Come One Come all.  http://bigtentpoetry.org/2010/06/monday-prompt-june-7/#comments political pantoum I am repulsed by politics                     hypocrisy, cant, and worse, lies.                     we should all believe in kindness       … Continue reading →

http://rallentanda.blogspot.com/  Rallentanda wants us to write a patchwork poem this week, using only lines from either/or both Charles Bukowski/William Shakespeare, with no words of our own.  Being still in rebellious mode, and very short of time this week, my over-long … Continue reading →

for:  http://bigtentpoetry.org/category/ring-1/ This is off prompt, ott in order to make the point about overdecoration.  I should be interested to see reactions, even highly critical ones! Rebellion, third instalment What’s so bad about adjectives or, more vilified, adverbs? Perhaps because … Continue reading →

 This poem is for: http://writersisland.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/prompt-6-for-2010-unforgettable/ We live very close to the D-Day landing beaches, much visited by tourists.  In our small village we celebrate every year the lives of five airmen – Australian, British, American and French, whose plane was shot … Continue reading →

The prompt asks us to go moon crazy. Rebellion II Why do we  do the done thing? Why conform to convention at all? Why not kick over the traces, tilt at windmills, break the rules? Old ladies are supposed to be … Continue reading →