Tag: Visual Verse
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4 May: The Allotment
Allotment If I wrote a book, I’d call it Allotment, andthere’d be a young woman who tendedher compost bin as if nothing else mattered.She’d wear a green frayed edge jumper. And there’d be a young man who dreamedof marrying her. They’d have lots of children,grow their own veggies, always organic,and keep hens that would eat […]
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Published on Visual Verse
I’m delighted that my ekphrastic poem, A Hundred Butterflies, is included in Visual Verse’s February anthology. A new image is posted on the first day of each month, and I encourage anyone considering a step into publication to have a go. They publish one hundred of their favourite poems or prose each month. ©Misky 2022 […]
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Day 2 AprPAD
Above All That Bit by bit, I’ll do my bit, too, ‘cause I know a boy who’s magnetic. A mettle personality. But he won’t go out in the rain; says he’ll rust. He giggles at rocks, too. And stones. Sees the joke of them, the humour. Laughs his head off when he holds one. Says […]
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#9
The Conversation They hurried along with gritty determination. A giant, his wife, a boy with a cow, a cat wearing boots, an ill-humoured mother, trolls and goats, a white rabbit, or possibly a hare, followed by an old woman wearing a grey veil. It draped the entirety of her head to foot. We nodded and […]
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