Childhood Haiku Innocent pleasure Circles on a tricycle You were the axis
Category: Journal
My daily journal: comments, thoughts and poetry on daily events.
The Empire kicks back
I just had to share this article from The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2015/aug/20/star-wars-another-stormtrooper-day-off-in-pictures?CMP=fb_gu
Writing is not on hold
I am currently putting together a portfolio of three to five poems for the 2015 Manchester Writing Competition. Two poems pretty much wrote themselves yesterday morning, which is the way I often develop ideas, letting the words and phrases form spontaneously before deliberation and polishing. The third poem was one I had started quite some […]
A new haiku
Fountain Haiku For a split second Lucent droplets are captured In frozen splendour
Here’s something for bloggers on the North American continent
I saw this BBC Culture post on Facebook and thought it might spark a debate! http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150820-why-is-canadian-english-unique
Autumn makes a dramatic entrance
A cloud of minute Water droplets suspended In the atmosphere A shrouded signpost Announces the equinox The yielding season
What is a bad poem?
According to a Penguin Random House post on Facebook this morning, today is National Bad Poetry Day. I’m not sure if that applies to the UK or to the USA, but it got me thinking. What is bad poetry? How do you recognise it? Everyone has their own subjective feelings about poetry; it’s almost impossible […]
I wanted to share this Mark Grist clip with you
This link to Mark Grist’s Spoken word clip: A Girl Who Reads on YouTube was shared on Facebook. I’ve met Mark, seen him perform his poems live and he’s great.
Thinking about Shakespeare’s sonnets
While browsing through WordPress posts today, I noticed that chyfrin seems to be going through a Shakespeare phase. I am a huge Shakespeare fan and loved teaching his plays and sonnets. While explaining the structure, metre and content of sonnets to a group of Year 10 students, I wrote the following. They also had a go and […]
Another wet Norfolk day
Did I mention it was raining this morning? The sky is grubby, not a patch of blue, raindrops drip from every leaf in a garden full of trees, shrubs and bushes, not to mention the grass, and Tosca has gone outside for the first time since we took her to the vet on Friday. She […]
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