Monthly Archives: June 2012

The Tragedy of the Commons

Posted on June 23, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Anna  Montgomery, guest contributor at the Poet’s Pub gives us an interesting look at neologisms, colloquial language and nonsense words, requiring a poem incorporating any or all three.  I apologise for re-posting a poem I wrote a couple of years ago … Continue reading →

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33 words

Posted on June 23, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

The Trifecta weekend challenge is to sum up our favourite book in 33 words.  The biggest challenge is to decide on the book.     Nigh on impossible.  My favourite is usually the one I’m reading now. But if asked what book I … Continue reading →

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6 word Saturday

Posted on June 23, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Is the answer in the soil? (dirt to Americans)  Foto search Stock Photos RF Royalty Free At our previous house – all of a kilometre away from this one – probably the most successful plants in the garden were lupins … Continue reading →

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I remember, I remember

Posted on June 22, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

                                           Blurred Image from Google Earth The house where I was born in semi-detached conformity— bow-windowed pebble-dashed quaint, fenced and private from the neighbours. Every one was more or less the same as every other, but ours was different. Every … Continue reading →

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the S.A.D.S

Posted on June 19, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Depressions over Iceland are reflected in the psyche; cerulean does not appear in the pessimist painter’s palette. Seasonally affected Scandinavians sigh all winter long at the absence of light within their murky tunnel.                       33 The Trifecta prompt this week is … Continue reading →

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Lament

Posted on June 18, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Imaginary Garden with Real Toads gives us the  Celtic Quatrain each line of which is seven syllables- not my favourite kind of poetry.  And to add to the difficulty, the rhyme pattern is complex. Lines one and three rhyme with a triple (three syllable) rhyme and two and four use a double (two … Continue reading →

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rhubarb crumble

Posted on June 18, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

First catch your rhubarb before the slugs get it There’s a lot of them about this drowned year. Pull the stems, don’t cut, or it will go to seed. Top and tail the stalks. Did you know the leaves are poisonous? … Continue reading →

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Posse Poem

Posted on June 17, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Apologies for burdening you with three posts on top of each other, but this week’s Reverie over at Joseph Harker’s place actually inspired me. After a fallow stretch where every word has had to be painfully squeezed out in pawky poetry, … Continue reading →

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Wisdom

Posted on June 17, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

The wisdom of fools, living life in innocence, and true happiness.  for Haiku Heights  

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Exile

Posted on June 17, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

    dVerse Poets’ Pub  wants an exile poem.  Permanently exiled and happy in France, I watched the whole of the Trooping the Colour on TV tonight, the birthday parade for HM Queen Elizabeth II.  The beautiful horses, the precision display, … Continue reading →

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Who me?

Posted on June 16, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

 Trifecta gave us a picture prompt and asked for a response in exactly 33 or 333 words  If I don’t look he won’t see me. Invisible, that’s what I’ll be. Oh go on then, I’ll just take a peek. Oops … Continue reading →

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6-word-Saturday

Posted on June 16, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Another cold wet and windy week The weather has dictated that it’s mostly been a sewing week:  the magnum opus quilt is almost finished:  it is bound and I’m now quilting little stars all round the outer border. It’s been … Continue reading →

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Remember

Posted on June 15, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Joseph Harker’s erudite reverie entrusts to us his favourite word (zeugma) to use in a rhetorical poem along with some of a vast array of figures of speech which you will find here.  I’ve used a few:  anthimeria, synocdoche, anaphora, … Continue reading →

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Desperate limerick

Posted on June 15, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

Unwilling to let a day go by without a poem, in desperation I turned to Mad Kane’s Monday Limerick prompt.  Doggerel I can do, even when my muse is asleep! A man who was very astute, used his brain to earn … Continue reading →

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Freestyle Haiku

Posted on June 14, 2012 by https://vivinfrance.wordpress.com

For freestyle writing when inspiration ‘s lacking – just let the mind rip. Put pen to paper, doodle and scribble around. See what emerges If nothing makes sense, tear it up and start again. Something’s got to give. This is … Continue reading →

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