Today I decided to enlist some help, so as to make the challenge a little more exciting: I presented my significant other with a selection of postcards and I asked him to choose one for me. Negotiating his way through various skull-featuring pictures (you'll see!), he finally settled on a reproduction of the painting The Poulterer's Shop …
A Little Challenge
Today's poem is the result of a challenge. It was supposed to be a happy poem, so hopefully it manages to bring out a more cheerful mood. (DAY 29) Softer That day when the clouds had broken my wings you moulded hands out of the dirt on the sidewalk so huge and warm I thought …
Heroics
Two more days left... For now, a poetic distillation of my academic research. 🙂 (DAY 28) Hero It took many mirrors to finally show my knight in shining armour my reluctant hero but I saw eventually that she had always been there albeit hard to recognise with all the masks she put on all the …
Getting there…
It's almost the end of NaPoWriMo again, so I guess a sort of nostalgia is kicking in... (DAY 27) That Time It's that time of the year again when the sky cracks in two releasing its angels, when the walls put on a new coat of paint and call it even with the vestal forest. …
Parallel Universes
Another NaPoWriMo entry written with relish. This is a good period for creativity, methinks! 😀 (DAY 26) [Poem currently under submission, therefore unavailable for the time being.]
Words came a little easier today
I switched tactics today and started rather than ended my day by writing a poem. Of course it worked much better, since my brain wasn't fuzzy and clogged for a change. Hope you enjoy! (DAY 25) [Poem currently under submission.]
Battles and Treaties
It took me a while to come up with something today, but I eventually managed to get it together. (DAY 24) War Front We observed our reluctant silence with dignity, like old friends on the war front. Your hopes were bruised, as was my vanity. Stubborn in our anachronism, we pledged our truce over cheap …
Sound and Hearing
This time round, I started from today's NaPoWriMo prompt, but decided to narrow it down somewhat. So, instead of writing "a poem in which you very specifically describe something in terms of at least three of the five senses", as the original suggestion went, I focused on sound and hearing specifically. There was no complicated …
Paste Bodies
I guess today's poem is another kind of collage. (DAY 13) (Em)Place(ment) I'm leaking round the edges, my bolts are coming off, whatever kind of glue God may have used to stick my limbs in place - it wasn't good enough, it yellowed and cracked with age. And perhaps, all along, I had paste eyes, …
More Wine and Poetry
Purely by chance (I swear!), I wrote a poem about wine and love, again. It must be because I'm enjoying some great wine right now. Anyway, here it is. (DAY 11) How Could She Not How could she ever pretend that she was not filled with love to the brim, that she was not akin …
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