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Category Archives: longer poems
Conjunctions
Now let us consider the joining words, our teachers called conjunctions. I think they are important words to link phrases, things, relations. Thread and knots or stitches fashion clothes to keep us warm. Cement, glue, and staples, dovetails, nails and … Continue reading
Posted in longer poems, rhyming poetry
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6-word-Saturday and Octpowrimo 24
image from sci-toys.com A Microscopic Drop in the Ocean Our wide world is just a drop in the ocean, a punctuation mark in creation. A zoom lens powers in with vertigo-inducing speed from the vast outer void through space past … Continue reading
Deauville to Newcastle
Travel broadens the bum and narrows the tolerance (Hurry up and wait, Hurry up and wait) leads to somewhere, you hope (Hurry up and wait, Hurry up and wait) in God’s good time if there’s no headwind so the plane is … Continue reading
RECIPE
Reading about food makes you hungry so you open a recipe book are instantly distracted hunger grows. You start to prepare weigh ingredients go up to the village for what’s not in store start again make a mess clear it … Continue reading
Posted in food, longer poems, re-blogs
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The Poetry of Every Day
The start of every day is different, yet the same: peer through un-curtained window assess the sky for promise, set mood and expectations.. Agenda similar, routine unvaried until I’m out there, eyes everywhere glorying in small shy hedgerow flowers or … Continue reading
Another Kind of Love – a sonata poem
I Allegro Amabile Shakespeare denies that love can be love which alters when it alteration finds. Experience informs me otherwise. That first euphoric flurry bears us onward in impetuosity from first encounter through exploration, discovery, exposed illusion. Ephemeral glory … Continue reading
Posted in ekphrastic poetry, found poetry, free verse, longer poems, re-blogs
Tagged Brahms, Shakespeare Sonnets III and XVII
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Wordle 186 – a ditty
At the crossroads one night with the moon shining bright – what dreadful doggerel I write – darn it, I’ve lost the thread of the story I had in my head. I’ll start it all over again. No I won’t … Continue reading
Posted in longer poems, nature poems, nonsense poems, really bad poem, rhyming poetry, story poems
Tagged the law of the jungle
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The Fisher Child
This is a rewritten version of a poem from my early writing days, in response to a prompt at Miz Quickly’s September challenge to write about fall. This is probably not the kind of fall she intended, but it is … Continue reading
Posted in life writing, longer poems, story poems
Tagged fishing, food shortages in the 1940s
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My heart beat is …
irregular, which causes some concern hence came my first bionic implants, springs to keep the plumbing free. Alas the syncopation turned into a slow rubato, with a spondee anapest or worse, full stop. More electronic gadgetry’s inserted in my … Continue reading
Posted in formal poetry, life writing, longer poems, story poems
Tagged Hearing aids, Pacemaker, Stents
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The Kindness of Strangers
Is this what God felt like – that the world was going to hell in a bucket – when he decided to send his Son to save us all?. It may have worked for a while – though I … Continue reading
Total Recall 70 years on
Beside Chris’s house – my friend who’s a boy, not boyfriend – a nice distinction – we had a den, a place safe from adults where we could be free to live the real life of our imaginations. Between high … Continue reading
Synergy
Little by little we’re spoiling our planet, killing earth and sea and all that’s in it. Anthropogenic carelessness and greed creeping destruction: gross deformation species’ extinction. Chemical weapons left after wars, dropped overboard in drums to corrode, the contents dispersed … Continue reading
In Praise of a Maiden Aunt – an ode
Dear Winnie, I can see you now, plump, and plain, with wispy blond hair scraped back in a bun, pebble glasses and a sour look; dressed like Grandma in knicker-peach corsets, a frumpy brown dress with lace modesty vest and … Continue reading
Grey
That was the year we all had a crush on Miss Mayland. A year of triumph and disaster And we did keep our heads. We swam a mile at the lido, Domini, Kevin and me. The weather was grey, … Continue reading
Posted in life writing, longer poems, story poems
Tagged convent girls on the rampage, Slough Music Festival
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Accidental Marion
Moving house was a hobby for Mum, like horse riding, hot air ballooning or tiger shooting. The chance to live in Worcester Park or Sunnymeads, Old Park Ridings instead of Prague – haphazard choice of fate – led to numerous … Continue reading
Posted in humour, life writing, longer poems, really bad poetry, wordles
Tagged ants in our pants, la bougeotte
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