Yep, that's what I've been doing today. Filling in spaces. [via Le Divan Fumoir Bohémien] To My Notebook by Kalyiel Whether all the flowers have fairies, I canot determine, any more than I can be sure whether all men and women have souls. ~ George MacDonald, "Phantastes" These lines that stare me in the face …
Of Toys and Shadows: NaPoWriMo Day Eight
Today's poem was partly inspired by the NaPoWriMo prompt for the day, and partly by Angela Carter, to whom I would dedicate it, were it not for the fact that Angela Carter deserves much better. 🙂 Well, anyway... ["Edwina et Victoria" by Julien Martinez] The Toy-Box by Kalyiel They are all shadows. How can you …
Some Absurdities and NaPoWriMo Day Seven
First, I'll give myself and my bibliophile readers a treat by posting some photos of a book I purchased back in autumn. I'm talking about a 1941 edition of one of my favourite childhood books, Travels and Adventures of Baron Munchausen. I found it - as I find most of the delightful things I purchase …
Ekphrasis…
Today I went to the Herbert Museum, to have a look at their "Secret Egypt" exhibition. As it turned out, it was pretty good, in spite of its being quite small, so I'd heartily recommend it to anyone living in the Coventry area. One of the nice things about going to see the exhibition was …
Writing Feels Better Nowadays…
Just odds and ends, today. Odds and ends. ["Porte Dorée 8" by Irina Ionesco, via] Cuckoo-Clock by Kalyiel But at my back in a cold blast I hear The rattle of the bones, and the chuckle spread from ear to ear. ~ T.S. Eliot, "The Fire Sermon" in "The Waste Land" It was a cold …
Still Here
I've had quite a long day today, so I've settled for a haiku. Which I'm dedicating to someone who had an even longer day than I did. 😉 [illustration Spring/ Vale from the Tacuinum Sanitatis of Paris, via Gode Cookery] Haiku for a Kind of Spring by Kalyiel The smile on your lips - Solar …
Here Goes Another One…
As I've said before, it all works in mysterious ways... Somehow, this poem has put itself together bit by bit, out of basically everything that came together and made up these past few days... It's meant to be an arlabecca (for a slightly more comprehensive description of it, look it up here), which sounds more …
Day Two
Second day of NaPoWriMo and I haven't given up yet. I don't even know what, more precisely, prompted me to write this poem. My mind works in strange ways and sure makes odd connections... "Pub" by Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova (via Art Inconnu) Tea Time by Kalyiel In a voice like the chiming of a hundred …
“Have I Possibly Gone Daffy? What Is This?”
Okay, so I'm doing this now, before I get a chance to think better of it. I've joined NaPoWriMo for no good reason. I haven't had an exceptional day, so I might've been thinking that writing a crap poem a day might keep my mind off things... So here I am then... On a marathon …
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Life as a Nunnery
I am aware it looks like I've been lured "to the other side", also known as "the great and frightful RL". Sadly - or happily, depends which way you look or squint at it -, however, I am still here, somewhere, stalking better updated blogs and other such online haunts. But yes, I have been …
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