Month: Apr 2021
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Day 22 NaPoWriMo 2021
Written for NaPoWriMo Day 22: a poem using Metonymy and PA AprilPAD “Nature” and The Poeming Found Poetry Challenge. Micro-image from Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. Croak Timeless as water.Frogs andtheir ambitions. Incessant. Continual.Primordial.Croakingtheir reckoning across water. Rusty. Exuberant. A sound as determinedas steel-tip boots. March. April. May.Croaked and soaked.A spread of silky water. It fills onesears with frogs and…
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Day 21 NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 21: Napowrimo: a Poem that uses lines with a repetitive set-up, and PA AprilPAD, write a poem entitled (blank) Me, and finally The Poeming’s Found Poetry Challenge on Tumbr. A Note To Me When that mist comes floating downDown as if you just might drownDrowning in its bone-deep chillA chill that holds you frozen stillBe still as a heart atonedBe…
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Day 20 NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 20 Napowrimo: Write a Korean Sijo and PA’s AprilPAD: Write a Love or Anti-love poem The Last Thaw (a Korean Sijo poem) That was the last frost of winter – the garden is singing.Two birds are pulling a worm from the lawn – same worm, yet they pull.I’m warm in your arms – hardly recall how…
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Day 19 NaPoWriMo 2021
NaPoWriMo Day 19: A Rant A Few Bugaboos jigsaw puzzles missing piecesclocks displaying the incorrect timea sliver in my finger that I can’t seeunflushed toiletsphotos that fadea curry stain on my favourite blousecar alarmslitter in the hedgerowsa drippy tapalarm clocks on Sundaysplastic flowers on graves wide-body cars in the carparkunmade bedswatery eyes and a stuffed…
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Day 18 NaPoWriMo 2021
NaPoWriMo Day 18: A prose poem based on another poem’s title from Susan G. Wooldridge’s Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words. I chose the poem The Ginkgo. For AprilPAD write an ekphrastic poem, which is the Found poem from the Bosch micro-image. The Ginkgo There comes a point, as a child, when your view opens to a whole new horizon.…
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Day 17 NaPoWriMo 2021
NapoWriMo “Moon” and AprilPAD “Waiting” using Poetic form: Korean Sijo 14-16×3 A Touch Hallucinatory (form: Korean Sijo) I’ve long known this ginger moon swinging in the stone cold nightIt dims the stars and draws frayed clouds across its pewter faceAnd sat beside my foot, a toad singing like the fiercest wind for and shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter …
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Day 16 NaPoWriMo 2021
ON OLD ROADS Oh pity the ankles on the rock and rumbling cobblesThe horse, the cart, and drawn wagons across its rattling ground,That cannot suppress the push and grind of echoes bound to footsteps. Poetic form: Korean Sijo 14-16×3, which I first discovered at Peter Frankis‘s superb collection of poetry. Photo by Joakim Honkasalo on Unsplash, and shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on…
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Day 16 NaPoWriMo 2021
NaPoWriMo Day 16 : A Skeltonic verse, and PA’s AprilPAD “A City Poem” Wealden Hall, Lewes, W. Sussex This old village abovebusy city shove,is dab and wattle thereof.Roofs thatched and rough,and doves in the eaves.These old timbers speakof Anne of Cleves For The Poeming Found Poetry Challenge, Day 16 Written for NaPoWriMo Day 16 : A Skeltonic…
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Day 15 NaPoWriMo 2021
How to Turn an Idiosyncrasy into a Story My mother was always pulling up mysocks. Get on with the job, she’d say. She could’ve run a swank Swiss hotel,flicked sheets across the bed witha single smooth backhand stroke. I didn’t inherit that skill from her. And she had blisters on her handsfrom digging overly ripe…
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AprilPAD Day 14: The Jade Rabbit
I’m Sitting Here Remembering … walking up Cat Street, and howsun baked the back of my neck,and when I walked past that shopwith icy air-conditioned breezes blowing on to the street, and howI turned on the ball of my foot andstepped inside to escape the heat,and it was a tiny shop wedged in between luggage…
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