Month: Jun 2021
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A dVerse Solstice Haibun
Woke to that loose sky, the sort where rain comes from, the lurch and coil of clouds caught on gusts, and the Acer (it’s shed its hyper green for a grown-up summer colour) stands unperturbed outside the window, a megalith, it’s a heelstone, and the rain falls like bouncing pennies, another month’s worth in a…
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Published on Visual Verse
Delighted, as always, to have one of mine published by Visual Verse Anthology. If you wish to read it, it’s at Like Two Owls. Visual Verse supplies writers with a new image each month with an invitation to submit your poem or prose (written within the time limit of one hour) for possible publication. They…
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Miz Quickly’s Deal Breaker
The Dregs It’s not a little water,it’s an ocean that sweeps between.He is lost, beyond poorly, too deepin his thoughts, as ifto turn a key might unlock them all,uncork his head ofregret and guilt and neglect.It is a repetition in his ear. The dregs of him.But his unruly heartis a weakness, and his thoughtsare vapours beyond…
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Goodbye Macbeth: Life’s But a Walking Shadow
Goodbye Macbeth: Life’s But a Walking Shadow Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.Such is the way withsorrow. To endure the light of dayto find reliefin sleep, to dream our yesterdays. Day on day on day, and into my last words,I live in this thin beigeshadow, to not follow into your sun. I must stay, an idiot…
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Cars for Miz Quickly’s
The Day Dad’s Car Drowned When rain comes that fast,there’s no stopping it.Ice-cold water blew past us,washing over everything. Up through the car’s flooring,white-wall tyres half submerged,water on the backseat wheremy boxed lunch set to floating, and the man on the radio said,The storm is moving away soonin an east and north direction, but the…
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Miz Q 06.18: Poem Beginning With a Line from Macbeth
Aphidoidea Tongue nor heart cannot conceivenor name thee! But I shall. This black woe, winged griefupon my lupines.Aphidoidea of black andwhite and green fly. Aphids usheringcatastrophe, andants in their lechery farm you like sows’s milk.Like night noise. And come morning,rain knocked those jewelledpurple spikes to the ground. The image…
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Reblogged for Flashback Friday
I. It’s hot. Like record-breaking hot. I want to chill my skin across cold marble. Like shortcrust pastry needs. Or submerge myself into a wave, into the sequinned imagination of a mermaid. Like a cold water fish. Like a big old lazy cod. I want to hibernate in a green grassy mirage before I falter…
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A Poem Beginning With a Line from Macbeth
“A deed without name,” Macbeth “No Fear” Act 4 Scene 1 The Tingle In My Thumb A deed without name, these aredarkened powers that nature commands.Winds that tear through trees,and lash at leaf and limb and twig.Overwhelmed. The sea foamsand sinks our ships, and send themto a silent, deepest end.The hunger. The ruined crops, trampledgrain…
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Day 15: Found Poetry for Miz Quickly
Found Poetry in Victor Meldrew’s Amazon Customer Review What’s this?A 5-star review of vegetables.e.g. tomatoes! You get £169.99 anda utility room covered withaluminium foilto help concentrate time. It is a matter of feelthe power. For Miz Quickly’s Day 15 “A Found poem from a review on Amazon”. Shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter ©Misky…
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Time, Picnics and Blizzards
Time is laid out like a picnic – Margaret Atwood “Salt” Sometimes, Time Is A Blizzard (which is why you won’t see any punctuation in this one) our old clockticks a bit slowerthen it might yet the daystill slips fromthis room to the next The…
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