Monthly Archives: December 2010

Big Tent suggests we write a list poem at busy times and that’s about all I’m good for this week! http://bigtentpoetry.org/ Lists of lists Birthdays       too many of mine addresses emails to send jobs to put off ‘til the … Continue reading →

Celebrate I sometimes have days like today where poetry flows like molten gold; fluent verse to be enjoyed punctuates  the weeks of void.  Then something sets me off again on the trail of rhyme and rhythm. The stream of nonsense can’t … Continue reading →

  Performance Swift uprush of sparkles widening of circles as supple body surges emerges from the sea topples from the apex once  again immerses vanishes from view Big Tent gives a Wordle this week and I’m suffering from Wordle fatigue, so I’ve only … Continue reading →

Dread  Dread is an emotion best thrust out of sight. Fear is not something that should ever see the light.  Sleepless nights allow them both to creep in uninvited. The remedy? Switch on the light, write poetry or read. Why … Continue reading →

Elizabeth’s life-writing prompt is letting us off lightly this week, with a seasonal memory. The Ballad of an English lesson  Twenty lovely children open faces, happy smiles, their mischief all well-hidden but children have their wiles and so we start … Continue reading →

Writers Island prompt today is the word “triumphant”, which caused me to wonder… Triumphant for Writers Island  Hymns are spattered with that word triumphant. But what does it really mean? For one man to triumph, does another fall? Triumph over … Continue reading →

We Write Poems’ Thursday prompt to write about our wants made me realise that I’ve mostly given up wanting things for myself.  I pray for global peace, an end to fanaticism and intolerance, cruelty, greed and all the ills of the … Continue reading →

I couldn’t get inspired by this week’s Big Tent prompt  write a “dead man” poem, so this one’s pretty silly!  I’m practising sevenlings for  the Poetic Asides challenge in the hope that I’ll get better at it!  You’ll find other people’s … Continue reading →

for Poetic Asides Wednesday prompt:  A true story of my day, yesterday, fitted the prompt to a T Receipt An exciting new recipe in a TV magazine enticed me to make Christmas bread. I took this and that and put them to soak … Continue reading →

 We Write Poems this week asked us to think about the Pursuit of Happiness – embodied in the US Constitution.  You’ll find other ideas at: http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/ A Futile Quest The pursuit of happiness, is surely a waste of time. It … Continue reading →

Elizabeth’s Life-Writing prompt http://1sojournal.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/journal-writing-prompt-8/ asks us to go back, in memory, to a time when circumstances brought about the process of sorting, deciding what to keep and what to let go of.  We are asked to remember what our reasons were for holding … Continue reading →

There was a discussion  in the comments on my Wondrous poem about poetic archaisms.  I dug out of my files this poem, written to make Bill Greenwell laugh when I was doing his Exeter University Poetry Workshop last year.  I … Continue reading →