Category: Poetic Forms
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A dVerse Palinode
I.The Gardener (A Palinode: a retraction to the piece below) The gardener’s daypours back and forth.They’re dead, he says. The azaleas survived one summer.Died mid-winter when everythinglooks dead. He walks the garden,complains about living on a hillof chalk, the wind sweeping awaythe bits and pieces of his sentence. I’ll make the gardener a cup tea,and…
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From Gulls to Leaf and Hatching
Wind Just Isn’t Strong Enough to stop the flightof clouds and gulls,to stop a caterpillarfrom inching along a leaf,and it will never stopa chick from hatching, orseeds from sprouting, orstop a stream from running. But wind is a bear, a wily body. Photo by Eunice…
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Day 29 NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 29: I. Napowrimo, a window view, II. PA’s AprilPAD an evening poem, III. The Poeming Are There Birds In Heaven I.Some Windows Don’t Close I’m wearing my mother’s pearls.I can feel her around my throat. She put excuses into our public narrative,an excuse for his behaviour, or maybean excuse for why she stayed and stayed. She had…
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dVerse Puente
Found: A Foot Out of Water It was just a footin the running gutter,just hanging down. ~ he shrugged ~ It looks likea bloody big squealingfish to me,he said. Poem form “Puente” and Found Poetry, text in Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, © 1989 Yazoo Digital, Arrow; 1st edition (7 May 2009) iBooks, pages…
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Day 28 NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 28. I. NaPoWriMo “Questions“, II. AprilPAD “Remix“, & III. The Poeming “A Foot Out of Water” I.It All Comes Down to Decaf in the End Are you listening?What did you say?May I talk with you?What do you want to talk about? And why now?Who are…
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Day 27 NaPoWriMo 2021
Day 27: I. & II. NaPoWriMo “a word from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” – an Ambedo Haibun also for dVerse Poets III. AprilPAD “Believe it/Or Not” written as a Nodus Tollens and The Poeming “The Red Light Berry” I.An Ambedo Haibun A bee at the windowpane. It’s buzzing. Angry. Or frantic. It can see outside, thinks it’s outside.…
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27 April 2021: Haibun
Vicariously Vigàta No more news. Not tonight. No more gasps for air. No more funeral pyres, or smoke and fire. No more wives in tears, or men beating chests, and no more orphans ghostly stares. I escape it all, if just a while, watching reruns on the TV. Police drama in Vigàta. A Sicilian seaside…
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Day 26 NaPoWriMo 2021
Written for NaPoWriMo “Parody Poem” in response to Lewis Carroll’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter”, and Poetic Asides AprilPAD ” (blank) World, and The Poeming Found Poetry Challenge – The Bluebird. Photo by Pablo Hermoso on Unsplash I. The World According to Pinocchio ( a parody on The Walrus and the Carpenter) His laugh is wet as…
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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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