Category: PA
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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 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
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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Day 13 NaPoWriMo 2021
Napowrimo Write tomorrow’s news. (Found Poetry sourced from today’s UK Met Office report) I.Tomorrow’s Weather Report When it’s nearly today,light might dry clear.Brightness will level, andwinds will shine sheer,and bit by bit odd nightswe’ll hear – spells, a few,and idle words like rain.Mist might probably formon the plains of Dartmoor. Poetic Asides: Lucky or Unlucky…
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Day 11 NaPoWriMo 2021
NaPoWriMo: Day 11 – 2 poems: A letter written to a person, and their reply My dearest heroic Mark Antony, I remember the sun so bright that it bleached the days colourless, the ground was wounded, naked and unbending, and it raged at us. We were the ruins of yesterday’s moon. Under what shifting sands…
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Day 10 NaPoWriMo 2021
PA AprPAD “Get “___”, and Napowrimo Day 10: Junk Drawer Poem. Mix a favourite song with the contents of your junk drawer I Got Dragged Away With those wild horses in me,didn’t know they’d drag me away. made a quiet exit with a sleight of hand. one day they’ll pull me back, you said,like a snapped rubber band.…
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Day 9: NaPoWriMo 2021
for I.) dVerse Body and Poetry. My “degradation” is single eye AMD, I. A Slow Degradation It’s hanging silentthat moon.It keeps ignoring you, in the forest,on a hill,shrouded in clouds. I’m blinded by sight. Sightless, butthe truth I…
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