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 …
Some Days Are Like This
[Image by Kaatje Vermeire via Le Divan Fumoir Bohémien] Just a poem for today. Birthdays by Kalyiel Do the dead ever remember their birthdays, I wonder? Does the sleep and the darkness surcease for a moment To reveal a candle stuck anonymously in the pink white brown Icing of a one two three layered cake …
Elusive Memorabilia
Here's doing something I've been postponing for a while: trying to track down the origins of old postcards/photographs. I've recently bought a new batch of memorabilia at the local market, but these ones seem to be even more mysterious than the ones I've picked up before. I'll start with those easiest to pinpoint, I guess. …
Of Perverse Pleasures and Murder Mysteries
I remain quite baffled that, apparently, most of the stuff I enjoy is either out of print/stock or really difficult to come by. I went through this when I was looking for Angela Carter's "The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman", which, for mysterious reasons, was reprinted by Penguin (with an absolutely horrendous cover, if …
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