-
7 April: NaPoWriMo and RDP Day 7
On the Kitchen Windowsill There’s a finger-length silver shoe with a notch, it’s an ashtray but never used as such, and next to it a small terra cotta chicken with a wooden spoon protruding from the back of its neck, for salsa I’m told, bought it in Cartagena on a hot day after a miserable…
-
7 April: A-to-Z Challenge
F is for Fractus Clouds Fractocumulus, a pretty breathof storm clouds that stretch outlike broken sleep. It’s a tear away,it’s a wind ringing church bells. It’s white as rough water weather,where blue is a gift to the sky. For A-Z Challenge. Fractocumulus: A cumulus cloud presenting a ragged, shredded appearance, as if torn. Written for…
-
6 April: NaPoWriMo and RDP Day 6
A Spoonful of Urban White In the echoes of distance, all there, gathered in this milky night, were destined to sombre lament. Their footsteps, a river of invadingsecrets flooding these gritty streets,and dazzled by night’s watery lights. And the milky moon, sharp as a knifebroke through clouds, and thenfaded back into echoes again. A poem…
-
6 April: A Thursday Door
Bushboy (Brian Dodd) shares photos of doors, but not just any doors. Spectacular doors from his journeys. Dan’s Thursday Doors opened the door on this. I love doors of all sorts. I’ve trawled through my holiday snaps and found a few to share. This door photo is from a road trip in 2015 to Goslar and the Hartz mountain…
-
6 April: A-to-Z Challenge
E is for the Eye of a Hurricane It’s theatre. A curtain call.A wall of flat calm and an eyeinto heaven. Fury and deluge.Then silence, as air falls dead. It’s short shadow weather, and the wind does as it pleases. For A-Z Challenge. Eye of a Hurricane: The relatively calm center in a hurricane that…
-
5 April: Poetic Asides Day 5
That Cat From Glasgow There once was a cat from Glasgow,Whose fur was as white as the snow,She’d purr and she’d play,All through the day,And her owner could never say no! Written for Poetic Asides Day 5. AI Digital Artwork is created using Midjourney. Imagery and poems ©Misky 2023 Shared on Twitter #amwriting @midjourney
-
5 April: For Visual Verse
The In-between Time She’s about to wake,To slip into thatIn-between time where Morning’s scent is pearled and blue,And the waves of her dreamsRelease breath’s steady meter. Dawn spurns twilight, andAll her nocturnal chatter, so fluidAnd easy, dissipates and disappears. Vapours. Translucent. As jellyfish.These dreams go, forgottenAs the sun drifts into sight . Written for Visual…
-
5 April: A-to-Z Challenge
D is for Dawn Light licks at the skyfrom the borders of dawnand mountains fill blue. It’s sun-bleached sheets on grass weather,and this slow day grows into nothing. For A-Z Challenge. Dawn: the time of morning at which the sun is 6 degrees below the horizon. At this time, there is enough light for objects…
-
4 April: A Triolet for NaPoWriMo
A Witness Oh, if only it existedin the silence of traveled clouds,the language of peace from afar,oh, if only it existed.A soul’s asylum bound by stars –a witness to silent words,oh, if only it existedin the silence of traveled clouds. Written for NaPoWriMo Day 4: Form poem, a triolet; constraints of ABaAabAB; in iambic tetramenter AI Digital Artwork…
-
4 April: A-to-Z Challenge
C is for Clouds Clouds layered like harmony, and light as bees wings, or peach blossoms. Whole as a pasture with room for everyone. It’s moss smothering grass weather, deep as covers and thin as skin. A-Z Challenge. Clouds: A visible aggregate of minute water droplets or ice particles in the atmosphere above the Earth’s…
It's Still Life 