Monthly Archives: August 2010

BigTent Prompt  30 August 2010  http://bigtentpoetry.org/category/ring-1/and Thursday Prompt 17: http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/thursday-prompt-17-wordle-yourself/  The idea of a word pool is one I originally learned from Susan Wooldridge in her wonderful book, Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words. As she describes the process in … Continue reading →

Shortarse,   For Carry on Tuesday http://carryontuesdayprompt.blogspot.com/ I know I stood in line when they shared out the inches but I must have missed out on a deal. My legs are too short for high shelves, brake pedal and clutch. Disadvantaged, … Continue reading →

This prompt has produced some truly excellent writing, though demonstrating how much grief there is in those two doom laden words.  So I decided to try to inject a little humour to lighten our hearts (I hope).  It was while … Continue reading →

I could have sworn I’d already posted this, but couldn’t find it on a track back. If Only ‘There must be some mistake.  They told me the train would leave at 18.30 when I booked the ticket.  Now you tell … Continue reading →

My last post triggered something in my head – no connection with any prompts! Illusions of youth Remember the moment of realisation that the sky goes right down to the land? When the one inch band at the top of … Continue reading →

Big Tent asks us to look closely at a manual task, and if necessary write about what goes through our head as we do it (a very loose interpretation of the prompt!).  That goes well, for me, with the Carry … Continue reading →

Two for Haiku Heights Festival Prompt: http://haiku-heights.blogspot.com/ pale leaves emerging festival of reborn life about to begin   Festival senryu (6-8-6)   winter jollity prepares summer carnival village enterprise

This is the umpteenth version of a poem written for Writers Island, Prompt 7, and only with  help from the kind people mentioned in the last line have I been able to rid it (I hope) of it’s Patience Strong schmaltz. It … Continue reading →

For the Laughter site: http://thelaughtersite.blogspot.com/  Prompt:  propose   Love and Beauty: a proposition I read that there aren’t enough rhymes for love and beauty. Take love: well, there’s glove, shove, dove and above whereas beauty has duty, Djibouti and snooty. … Continue reading →

This is for Writer’s Island Prompt 17, which asks us to think about time travel.  My first attempt was pretty pathetic, and this one not much better.  Maybe I’ll have another go later in the week.      Literary Mayhem  Think of the … Continue reading →

6-word Memoirs for http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/thursday-prompt-16-six-word-memoirs/ I had a go at every single prompt: The Best Advice I Ever Gave or Received: Never give up. Never give up. Milestone Birthdays: 10, ten shiny shillings from Dad 21, I had a shiny key … Continue reading →

Big Tent has given us a wordle this week with the usual bunch of unrelated words to use in a poem, http://bigtentpoetry.org/2010/08/monday-prompt-august-16/ and We Write Poems ask us to look at this picture and follow where it takes us.My immediate … Continue reading →