On day 27 of the writing challenge I was in the mood to write a pantoum, as I haven't done this in a very long time. And I made full use of my long-standing obsession with faces. Faces Flickering faces So old and worn Can at times be spotted In the winding river. So old …
Not-Quite-Mourning
The prompt for NaPoWriMo today was absolutely brilliant: For today, I challenge you to write an elegy. Classically, an elegy is a poem written in response to someone’s death, a poem of mourning and remembrance. Your elegy can be about a specific person, a group of people, a pet, a plant, even an idea. I …
More of Japanese Forms
A bastardisation of the dodoitsu form for today. Not very creative, but an interesting first, I suppose. Lips One by one, I read the lines Of your lips, in an attempt To find hidden tenderness. Desire smoothed them.
A Gruesome Fairground
So... I'm afraid a gruesome, eerie, unpolished rondeau will have to do for today. That's all I could come up with. Carousel The dancers going round and round, Etched on a carousel of sound; They would unfold their battered skin With every skid and every spin, But to the fairground they are bound. For every …
Feasting on Memories
This comes a bit late, but at least I've managed to write it. Today's NaPoWriMo prompt was In honor of Earth Day, today I’d like you to write a poem about a plant. Flowers, of course, have been the subject of poems since time immemorial, and continue to be a source of much inspiration. But …
Walking Like a Fool
I was inspired to write a poem about journeying today. Dedicated to all wayfarers, but especially to my friend R. (you know who you are!). The Wayfarer I didn't just up and leave on the spur of the moment, you know. I always knew that I was going to run away sooner or later, and …
Short Journeys to Heaven (in Poetic Form)
Going back to my love for condensed poetry form once again, I have decided to write a sequence of lunes today. A lune is an adaptation of the haiku to the English language, and I have tried my hand at both versions of the form, the Robert Kelly (5-3-5) and the Jack Collom (3-5-3). And …
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Fantasy and Myth
Finally, some peace and quiet and a - largely - reliable internet connection. I was actually able to sit down and think about what I was going to write for the first time in 4 days. So for today's NaPoWriMo exercise I prompted myself to write a poem inspired by the Malagasy poetic form, the …
Dreams and Impressions
This is... I have no idea what this is, actually, but it's for day 18 of NaPoWriMo. Very eerie stuff, I suppose. I've been a bit tense lately and I need to relax, otherwise all my poetry's going to turn out like this. Here it is then: A Sketch of Our Home Brighter, still brighter …
Vibrating Masses
A slightly more leisurely poem today, written in honour of all the comfortingly crowded spaces. The Crowd Constant murmur of thronging souls Used to being silent but now Compelled to navigate thin Corridors through the careful Manipulation of their delicate Vocal chords - it feels as though I were at the bottom of the sea, …
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