Monthly Archives: June 2011

Found Poetry exercise

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

Margo Roby http://margoroby.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/tuesday-tryouts-poems-on-things-that-are-found/  gives wonderful exercises to wake up our poetry skills.  This week is no exception, but I’ve found the first one really hard,  The task is to take an extract from a newspaper of 70-90 words, write it … Continue reading →

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Jock’s latest embroidery

Posted on June 29, 2011 by

This is the latest in his camel series.

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A couple of poems inspired by postcards

Posted on June 29, 2011 by

The Cordonnier Wise hands, by muscle memory doing what they have always done. Eyes near shut, thoughts held close behind those spectacles, under that hat. Body, tired now, after all those years, aches for rest, but when it comes those … Continue reading →

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Party Girl

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

  Life’s a party, or it can be if you let it – embrace it with both hands, kick over the traces, girl, kick up your heels, look at life through those lovely eyes, Time enough when you’re old, girl … Continue reading →

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Figure in a landscape

Posted on June 27, 2011 by

Pale on the winding  sun-bleached road, shuffling  he knows not where, a bundle of rags held together with string, twiggy fingers dangling, battered hat on straw-like hair, a picture of dejection. He spies a billboard by the way: His head … Continue reading →

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Changes

Posted on June 26, 2011 by

for Brenda  http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ Changes Flitting silently, gracefully, a swallowtail butterfly  – disoriented over the sands – searches fruitlessly for somewhere to land. She’s looking for fennel fronds to inhale peppery pollen; with coppery kisses, lay dozens of eggs in the … Continue reading →

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The House that Jock Built

Posted on June 26, 2011 by

 barn as we first saw it in 1996 It was a rough old barn with  cowshit plastered up the walls, a rusty, leaky roof of tin and piles of tumbled stone. Four years of sweaty labour devoted, all-exclusive while camping in a … Continue reading →

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Six word Saturday

Posted on June 25, 2011 by

Slut, still not dressed at eleven   for  http://www.showmyface.com/search?updated-min=2011-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&updated-max=2012-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&max-results=50 I really did mean to get up early.  Poems intervened, then Skyping daughter, phone-calling friend, visiting friend: eek! Put on kimono.  Edit poems, comment on others, reply to my commenters.   Resolution:  I … Continue reading →

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Sort-of Poem by Jock, a non poet.

Posted on June 25, 2011 by

A high-rise block of flats, twenty storeys high, featureless save for lines of windows and a row of Juliet balconies, too narrow to be of use, with minimal railing; cheap, to keep in budget. Twelve floors up, a woman of … Continue reading →

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Victoria Market

Posted on June 24, 2011 by

I’m going off prompt for a while, as there is so much poetry from the week’s workshop, waiting to be worked up.  Here’s what I wrote in response to a two-part exercise yesterday. We started off by reading some sensory poems … Continue reading →

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Where I Write for WWP

Posted on June 22, 2011 by

for We Write Poems, an  observation poem about « here » or « where I Write » http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/prompt-59-its-post-your-poems-day/ I just found last week’s prompt, so here’s a rush job!  Where I write Mostly these days I write in bed, three pillows piled up behind me, … Continue reading →

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The promised sonnet

Posted on June 22, 2011 by

To idleness To gaze on landscaped beauty without thought it’s good to lie and wonder what to do knowing there’s no need to do a thing, that nothing must be done about it, NOW. Those weeds will still be there … Continue reading →

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OPD

Posted on June 22, 2011 by

(Obsessive poetic disorder) Limerick I’m starting to think in iambics pentameter coming at will, despite my great age and not having a wage, this proves I’m not over the hill.   A sonnet may follow tonight, but now I must … Continue reading →

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I Saw Sunday 19.6.11

Posted on June 21, 2011 by

Poetry at the Mill our leader for the week  Katherine Gallagher  and  Kaye Lee Ten am and hugs from hosts and poets gathered in the barn excited chatter, lovely to see you again, let’s get started introductions of the two who … Continue reading →

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limerick

Posted on June 20, 2011 by

A girl who could never say no married ten at a time, doncher know. Polyandry her crime and she had to do time. It was worth it, she loved ‘em all so.   for http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/

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