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For the love of worms
by Poseidon AKA Earth Shaker I want to tell you about my friend and rival – Earth Maker, ie worms. It’s Be Kind to Worms Year to stop the earth being spoiled by large swathes of monoculture, heavy machinery ploughing … Continue reading
Epithalamium
for Poetic Bloomings – an epithalamium is a poem to or about a bride and groom. A bride is always beautiful, the groom a nervous cliché. and maybe a trace hung-over. But it is fair to say that this pair … Continue reading
Betrayal
A couple of grouchy senryu for Haiku Heights My body betrays my desire to write poetry – my purpose in life. * Hospitals are no place to rest and recover: too much kerfuffle.
Posted in haiku and senryu, rants, short poetry
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Parliament of the sea creatures
Image: appliqué and embroidery quilt by ViV ‘Hear ye, hear ye,’ the trumpet fish waved his long snout ’The Boss is anxious to sort things out. He’s calling a meeting of all you chaps to right a few wrongs, so … Continue reading
Posted in longer poems, pictures, politics, quilts, rhyming poetry, story poems
Tagged Parliament, Poseidon, Zeus Marine conservation methods
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Sorry no post yesterday
0230am,Tuesday – just got back from hospital with a mouthful of wadding and a bag of ice (too many anti-coagulents, like happened before) and may have to go back tomorrow morning. There will be a post tomorrow anyway, because … Continue reading
Posted in life writing
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Coitus Interruptus
Sorry folks, this one’s a bit dark – blame the wordle words! The lover’s touch hovers, tender, awaiting the next breath to break the nebulous tension between them. A blazing torch disturbs desire, crushes embryo emotion with blundering intrusion. Bad … Continue reading
Posted in free verse, wordles
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A vicious crime against poetry
Poetic Bloomings prompt 108, is to write a really bad poem. Here are the instructions. I prefer to write the best I’m capable of But if I wanted to write a bad poem I’d end all the lines with weak … Continue reading
Posted in free verse, humour, nonsense poems, Poems
Tagged metre, misuse of apostrophe, rhyme, the rules of poesy
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Fizz to Physiognomy
Kelvin at dVerse poetics having had a most unpleasant reaction to a self-portrait because of his Asian appearance, asks us to consider the Asian experience.As a recent visitor to an International Festival said: ‘To be among thousands of people from … Continue reading
A loopy, honey of a prompt
from Carole Carlisle’s Light Words , her picture just happened to fit with a Wordle-type prompt at Trifecta asking for exactly 33 words, 30 of our own and three of the following: topple paradigm underneath nerve honey loop. I couldn’t … Continue reading
Friday Frivolity
Come what may I will make hay while the rare sun is shining – Hang the washing on the line then go for a walk, combining work and pleasure with a will so long as the sun is shining still … Continue reading
Posted in life writing, nonsense poems, rhyming poetry, short poetry
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I Try to Meet the Bar
Velleity means volition – in its lowest form mere inclination Now I understand that, I will attempt an explanation of the will that makes me write of this, that, or the other in my own voice as the fancy … Continue reading
Body and Soul
Poseidon from Milos, 2nd century BC (National Archaeological Museum of Athens) God of the sea, earthquakes, storms, and horses (Wikipedia) ‘Tis best to draw a veil over my bodyor at least over the naughty bits,which were naughtier than most in … Continue reading
Posted in free verse, longer poems, story poems
Tagged Poseidon, Procrustes, tamer of horses, Theseus
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Tableau letting go
Piles of broken woodthat once made a barnsadly neglectednow no more than fuelfor a winter fireto give up its warmth. PoeticBloomings suggests we write a Tableau, a poetry form created by Emily Romano consisting of one or more verses, each … Continue reading
