Monthly Archives: July 2011

Senryu for Jinksy

Posted on July 31, 2011 by

  Plump pretty Mary matures into a woman slimmer, serious.   Jinksy has started an image prompt blog:  http://pens-poems.blogspot.com/2011/07/in-tandem-3.htmll

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I Saw Sunday 30.7.11

Posted on July 31, 2011 by

This Sunday has been a busy one: my favourite niece and the younger half of her family arrived for the day.  Roast pork and all the trimmings and a special Sunday Sundae went down a treat, particularly with the three year … Continue reading →

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6-word Saturday

Posted on July 30, 2011 by

Even more chaos than last week While I was shopping in the market, someone boxed my car in good and proper!  It took about 10 backwards and forwardses to wriggle out of there.  This has been a fabulous summer for cherries … Continue reading →

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Grass

Posted on July 30, 2011 by

http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2011/07/thursday-think-tank-59-grass.html  gives us the brief prompt Grass.  My first thoughts were frivolous – but true:  Jock has just rumbled down the drive with a trailerful.  But then I sobered, as I thought of the horrendous problems in Somalia and elsewhere.  … Continue reading →

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Rhyme Royal

Posted on July 29, 2011 by

The new poets’ pub http://dversepoets.com/ tells us about the oldest form of poetry, the Rhyme Royal,  a stanza of seven lines, (usually) in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b-b-c-c. In practice, the stanza can be constructed either as a terza rima and … Continue reading →

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Contrasts

Posted on July 29, 2011 by

Inoffensive sand ground from cliffs by great oceans, smoothed by gentle waves playground for  babies and bronzed holidaymakers shifting constantly remorseless sea irresistible power carves out new landscapes these linked senryu were written for Monday’s picture prompt at http://creativewriting.ie/writing-exercises/  

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Opposites for Poetic Asides

Posted on July 29, 2011 by

There’s a lot of uproar going on at the new Poetic Asides, into which I’ve at long last managed to find my way.  Yes, the changes are arbritrary and imposed from above on an unsuspecting Robert Lee Brewer.  But Yippee, it’s … Continue reading →

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Life at 67

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

I strayed into an unfamiliar poetry prompt site at http://poetryjaam.blogspot.com/2011/07/that-jam-isnt-moldy.html and the prompt was to write about what it would be like at the age of 67. That’s history for me! Life at 67 was good. Decrepit?  Yes. but finished? … Continue reading →

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Animal, Vegetable or Mineral

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

A silly one for http://poeticbloomings.blogspot.com/    prompt 12 – far too late, as I missed the prompt at the time. I spy with my little eye something that’s good to eat. Bacon and egg, lobster or chips? No, you’re all wrong – … Continue reading →

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Parallelism

Posted on July 27, 2011 by

I’m not sure I’ve got the hang of this week’s prompt from http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/ “Nicole  asks us to consider using “parallelism” in our poems. She says, “You see this as a frequent device in the Book of Psalms in the Hebrew … Continue reading →

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No idea

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

No theme comes to mind when no prompt presents  itself my mind draws a blank.   For http://haiku-heights.blogspot.com/ who offer no theme this week!

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Moving the Goalposts

Posted on July 25, 2011 by

Fifteen years ago my only goal was to survive first heart attack, and then survive again. Smaller goals first time outside but just for the ride home then walking, fifty yards, a hundred, a kilometre – it was extremely hard, … Continue reading →

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I Saw Sunday 24.7.11

Posted on July 24, 2011 by

Today I was up late, having struggled with Brenda’s Sunday Wordle.  The rest of the morning was therefore rushed, preparing for the afternoon visit of a French couple, among our oldest and best friends.  We’d decided to give them an old-fashioned English … Continue reading →

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A Precious Memory

Posted on July 24, 2011 by

Red plush curtains in a gilded proscenium jerk back with a whirr to reveal a marvelous set. Scattered clouds on a sickly blue backdrop, reprehensible so-called trees and a cliché rising sun render trite the scene for what is to come. … Continue reading →

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Six word Saturday

Posted on July 23, 2011 by

Up to market: village in chaos. After six years of summer roadworks, re-doing – separately – phone lines, electricity, water, drainage, you get the message, roads through the village are in an appalling state. The pavements are a minefield, which anywhere else … Continue reading →

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