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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Sunset – for One Single Impression
The prompt at One Single Impression, sunset, sent me in several directions : This photograph, taken by my son, I know not where, sent my thoughts back to 1992, when we lived in Seychelles. We used to play bridge with … Continue reading
I saw Sunday
The dreary weather we’ve been having was making for a rather boring visit for my family, so we put on boots and waterproofs to have a little fun. I took them to see where Jock is building yet another wall … Continue reading
sunday wordle 30/10/11
Saturday nights are sidewalk battles for those on the bottle. Bloody bodies thumped – twitch in the gutter. Life flickers and gutters, as violence erupts. Knifed victims gurgle. Carved initials disfigure. Crooked cut-throat vanishes, only to be caught next day … Continue reading
ghosts for haiku heights
Unexplained presence, an aura of mystery: a load of hokum. posted at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HaikuHeights/~3/_ETq7zC5aSs/haiku-height s-prompt-92-ghosts.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email =
6-w-S
Grandma exhausted, family gone, laundry on the raw material work in progress nearly done Ooooh! And all the innards plus a bit of this and a bit of that made a big pot of soup which is now inside us.
Conflate
An ouf of relief as we’re up out of that hell of an airport gradual incline popping ears glimpses of familiar scenes from this angle aberrant my usual idea of flying a hiccup a pause respite from life . I’m … Continue reading
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“Free”?
Because their competitions are free to enter, I sent a load of poems to Forward Poetry. So far, they have accepted four of them to be published in an anthology Reflections: A Collection of Poetry. Each acceptance came in a … Continue reading
Instant poetry
http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/ asked for a poem about something that happens in an instant: piece of cake, I thought. I was wrong. I struggled all week with this, eventually coming up with a poem of which I was ashamed, and refuse to post. … Continue reading
Predicament
The cleaning lady down below crashes and bangs as though to show that she is so industrious leaving all the pictures crooked stamping around heavy footed doggedly making salubrious the floors and windows so they shine dusting, re-arranging what’s mine … Continue reading
White Noise
I am dispossessed of the gentle absence of sound. Silence: sings to me, whines at me, roars round me, buzzes for me, hums in me, irritates the hell out of me, deprives me of sleep. There is no more silence. … Continue reading
Red sky at dawning
The sky tells me this morning Laundry out quickly, before the glow fades. The unruly air will dry it in half an hour. Posted at http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/
Alliterisen
Acronym and antonym, pseudonym and synonym, phonetic and frenetic are partially poetic. Rhyme and rhythm conjugate – one which we should contemplate – when wretched rules bamboozle. The form for an Alliterisen is: 7 lines of 7 syllables, 1 alliteration each … Continue reading
Sponge
Past and future days soaked in memories and dreams: comfort and solace http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HaikuHeights/~3/1DBbKz0Nfm8/haiku-heights-prompt-91-sponge.
I Saw Sunday, 23.10.11
In just over a week’s time it will be Halloween and All Saints the following day. While in the market yesterday I bought a pumpkin. My grandson arrives on Thursday and leaves on Sunday, so will miss the actual day here, … Continue reading
6-word-Saturday
All my Saturdays are the same except for the weather: today it’s glorious sunshine with a nip in the air. I write for two hours in bed, shower and dress, walk up to the market, tut tut at the slow progress of … Continue reading
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