Today's prompt was to write a 'colour poem'; I had lots of fun doing this last year too, playing with my favourite colour, blue. This tome round, I decided to fixate on purple - I looked up synonyms, derivatives, secondary meanings. The result was rather gruesome (as one might expect, knowing me), but still a …
Mothers/ Day 27
Almost there... Don't ask where this one came from, because I honestly don't know. [Poem currently under submission.]
Aeons/ Day 26
Today's NaPoWriMo prompt sounded like a lot of fun: And now, the (optional) prompt. This one’s a bit tricky, but I’ve used it to good effect in the past — and it’s the sort of thing you can do over and over again. Back in 1977, the poet Ronald Johnson first published RADI OS, an …
A Visit to the Moon/ Day 25
Today's poem is dedicated to my mother, who unwittingly provided the inspiration for it. 🙂 [Poem currently under submission and therefore unavailable for the moment.]
This House of Whispers/ Day 24
On this, the twenty-fourth day of NaPoWriMo, I opted for another triolet (ABaAabAB) - must be the fault of all these Gothic texts I've been thinking about in my not-so-spare time. This House of Whispers In this house of whispers born and raised A gliding voice, I worship vastness In this house where hollow smiles …
Heartbeats/ Day 23
If yesterday I could only with difficulty bring myself to write a 'nature poem', irony has it that today I couldn't stop myself from doing so. Maybe I need to sleep on a topic before it germinates by itself? Heartbeats Heartbeats underneath the bark - Are they mine, sprung through my fingers Into its parched …
Twilight/ Day 22
Since today is Earth Day, our daily prompt suggested we come up with a nature-related poem of any kind. Well, I'm not very good at this sort of thing, since I don't often write poems with 'nature' in mind, but I gave it a try nevertheless. (At least I've kept on writing, and that's the …
Baron Samedi/ Day 21
I felt like writing a love poem today, so I did so. However, since my understanding of the 'love' bit in 'love poems' tends to be rather questionable, I named my lyrical attempt of the day after the Voodoo Loa of death and sex. (Which reminds me I definitely need to read up more on …
Daytime Moon Haiku/ Day 20
Today I came up with another haiku, and whilst you might think this was a clever way for me to avoid writing/thinking too much, I can assure you that it actually wasn't. Today, I was completely taken by the 'waxing gibbous' daytime moon I spied on an absolutely clear sky (such a rare sight in …
Days 14-19
So... once more I've spent some days without a decent internet connection, so here's another one of those 'catch up with the NaPoWriMo flow' posts. Day 14: An Imagined Affair The blisters of an imagined affair, Ugly and rough-edged: the ghost That never dared to live - How does one dig a grave for it? …
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