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19 Nov: PA and Q’s Day 19
A Shadow Slips – into the myth of ghosts It happens.A visionary tic. Maybe it’s a memory muscle.Like knowing the sun is warm. It happens.A shiver in your chest. Maybe it’s my narrow psyche.Like drowning in shallow water. It happens.It’s sharp. It’s flat. A shadow slips. Maybe a ghost, Mum said.And I felt someone walkover…
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18 Nov: Q’s Day 18
Hallucinations and Other (Mis)Directed Dialogues There’s sunlight on winter,misdirected dialogue from ice to warmth. Winter shivers.Are you cold, asks sunlight. No, it’s just cricketsin my bloodstream, says winter. Miz Quickly’s words (pick a few or all) Words: hallucinations baby good stairs directed luck bloodstream 35 cricket dialogue These poems/prose are draft versions, written in participation…
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18 Nov: NovPAD Day 18
And Just … after we lost faithin sandbags,and the river brokeits bank, the rain came downhard as marbles and the mudwas runnyspitin an old man’s beard, there came clowns on bicycles,who pedalledright throughour puddle-jumping town and then they disappearedaround the bend –and there’s really not more to tell. And just for a bit of clowning…
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17 Nov: NovPAD Day 15
Just Another Risky Alliteration The coldshimmering seais full of silvery squidwhich is whyI won’t swim after sunset These poems/prose are draft versions, written in participation of Miz Quickly’s prompts and Writers’ Digest (Poetic Asides) November poem-a-day challenge. The aim: to produce a chapbook for submission. ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting on Twitter. Images are ©Misky, and…
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16 Nov: NovPAD Day 16
I. (PA: Panel)Just Another Stroke It was the summer I turned 5,maybe I was 4, but it was summer.Dad always painted the fencein August, and as I watched the white paint being strokedup and down in long, slow anddeliberate sweeps of the brush, I told him that I’d never marrybecause I loved him. And he…
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15 Nov: NovPAD An Aubade Poem
An Aubade Poem to Dawn No good comes from wakingto the snap of rainagainst the windowpane. It’s a hardcrisppetulantpebble-dashedclattering rain. Nothing good ever comesfrom a hollow egg. These poems/prose are draft versions, written in participation of Miz Quickly’s prompts November poem-a-day challenge. Today’s prompt is write an Aubade poem. The aim: to produce a chapbook…
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15 Nov: NovPAD Day 15
I.Just Another (Thoughtless) Memory I remember the skywas a loud shock of blue,the plastic table and chairs, an indifferent white. We aren’t talking.I can’t remember why. But you sit there,and watch me cryas you throw yourselfinto one last battle. I remember sitting undertroubled sky, the wind blowing blowing us out. II. (a thoughtful haiku) Rain…
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15 Nov: dVerse Quadrille “Wings”
A Cormorant It moves slowly, its breadthopens up,then comes the flappingand beating of wings,out of the fog bank,an escapee from imprisonment,a release from mist,and it settles on a rotting postin the middle of the salt marsh.A cormorant. for De’s Quadrille “Wings” at dVerse Poets. ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting on Twitter. Image is mine created using AI…
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14 Nov: NovPAD Day 14
A Gardener’s Story I. It’s a duel with nature,hack back nettlesand choke weed tendrils,slash away brambles that in August I’ll praise for blackberries, but for now, those thornsare dragon’s teeth.They biteand won’t be tamed. II. My mother grew hydrangeasthe colour of alpacas, pulledweeds with her bare hands. She took a scythe to the bramblesbut picked…
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