Almost there, folks, almost there... You're one day closer to the end of my lyrical spamming... [EDIT] This poem can now be read in an edited version over at the wonderful Eunoia Review.
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 …
I was never so fond of cataloguing…
This will be more of a memento than a regular blog post, I suppose. Last week I got a chance to see the art collection at the Nottingham Castle Museum. It was only a brief visit, yet I made a point of jotting down the titles of all the paintings that caught my fancy for …
Coming Full Circle
A bit late, but here it is, the very last poem for this year's NaPoWriMo. It was fun while it lasted, so I decided to take on the last official prompt as a sort of homage to the project: Today’s prompt asks you to write a poem incorporating at least three “I remember” statements. This …
Of Bath-tubs and Card Games
I thought that for once I'd be able to do the NaPoWriMo challenge without missing a day, but apparently I was too quick to judge. So today I had to make up for yesterday, as well. I don't really mind it, though, it seems that a day's break from writing poetry did wonders for my …
A Matter of Standing Face to Face…
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 …
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 …
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, …
“Illicit Unattainable Love”
So it's Friday the 13th again. Well, as I was saying once before, poetry does go well with Friday the 13th. Today's prompt for NaPoWriMo was to write a ghazal; I've written an approximation of a ghazal once before, for last year's NaPoWriMo. I was hoping this year's experiment would turn out better, but I'm …
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