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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Impression
Monday was washday in the old days slaving and socialising at the lavoir, lines of laundry hanging limp along the common drying green or flying, frantic in the West wind. Anxious watching for those rainclouds – no tumble drier as a … Continue reading
Posted in free verse, pictures
Tagged Berthe Morisot, ekphrastic poetry, Impressionism, lavoir
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Maytime continued
Sunday’s Wordle poem – https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/wordle-58-maytime-and-shore/ described the first part of a process. I had to write yesterday’s sequel: Winter Larder The welcome warmth achieves its work as fresh-cut green turns wheaten dry. A bigger machine with louder whine arrives, disturbs the birds … Continue reading
A Practical Poem or two for WWP
http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/prompt-107-lets-get-real/ Practical describes me. I wrote a wordle poem last month on how to make a Victoria Sponge https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/wordle-15-victoria-sponge/ more people have read than any other poem on my blog. But I had to write one specially for WWP! A practical … Continue reading
Posted in short poetry
22 Comments
Village Carnival
Boom boom boom boom the mindless beat booms across the fields calling to tell us emphatically that the dodgems have arrived in the square, the Fête de Saint Pierre is here. Winter and spring we’ve been preparing, decorating floats Cerisy … Continue reading
Posted in life writing, pictures, Poems, story poems
Tagged Carnival, Cerisy la Salle, Fete de St Pierre
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wordle 58: Maytime and Shore
When I sat down to write this week’s wordle, I hadn’t an idea in my head until I tuned in to what was happening outside the wide-open patio doors. Maytime Grind and clank disturb the burnished day, the fitful … Continue reading
Posted in free verse, Poems, short poetry
31 Comments
Joyful haiku
Clear sky, sun rising, an early blackbird singing— joy in the morning. for http://haiku-heights.blogspot.fr/2012/05/146-joy.html photo credit: Squidoo.com
Posted in haiku and senryu
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Six word Saturday
Rain stopped, sun shone, garden blossomed. What a star. We planted this shrub last year, but I can’t remember what it’s called. Does anyone know? The sun has brought on the white wysteria, as the blue is fading. I … Continue reading
Stream of Consciousness and food porn
Stream of consciousness is asked for by the poets’ pub: http://dversepoets.com/2012/05/24/stream-of-conscousness-writing/ My mind doesn’t do stream it’s more like hop skip and jump from one flibbertigibbet topic to another. On the whole, I don’t like reading this kind of writing … Continue reading
Jo’s questions
http://restlessjo.wordpress.com/ tagged me to answer a list of questions – not usually my kind of blogging. I did suggest my answers might be a poem, but it didn’t work out like that: sorry, Jo. 1. Which place would you most like … Continue reading
Self
Margo Roby at http://margoroby.wordpress.com/ gave us a collection of statements about self. They range from the philosophical to the provocative. She suggested that we freewrite on one or several. I wanted to work on “The tension between “yes” and “no,” between … Continue reading
Fame at last!
That wonderful, nurturing poetic garden http://poeticbloomings2.wordpress.com/has done me the honour of an interview with Marie Elena, which you can read if you’re so inclined. I’d no idea she’d use every one of the poems I sent her to choose from, expecting … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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Roads Not Travelled for WWP
The Fork in the Road So many roads not taken that my life has been a muddle. Boarding school was threatened, but I dug my heels in and refused. Would I still be holy if I’d stayed? Supposed to stay … Continue reading
Posted in free verse, life writing, Poems
18 Comments
Enough
Being in a silly mood, on account of having just finished making the second jester’s cap, the last of the costumes for our carneval, my response to http://poeticbloomings2.wordpress.com Prompt 56 is somewhat frivolous: Enough of this tomfoolery, it’s all quite illusory cease your … Continue reading
Posted in rhyming poetry, short poetry
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Short and sweet
http://djvorreyer.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/poetry-mixtape-21-k-i-s-s/ (KISS = keep it simple, stupid) invites us to think about short poetry, and write a three-sentence poem where the title helps create layers of meaning. She suggested we could use a natural image and rhyme. I mostly write … Continue reading
Wordle 57: Secret Grief
Secret grief Stand at the window, hands on hips gaze on the disorderly mess that is a neglected garden. Mourn diminution of physical strength loss of marrow from bones joints stiff in stillness sulking while flowers run wild, colours clash … Continue reading
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