My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #85 Back in time: Use that quote Chèvrefeuille has asked us to write a haiku, tanka or other form of Japanese poetry inspired by a quote from Lord Byron: ‘There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none […]
Tag: Blogging
My thoughts and questions about blogging.
The Shortest Day
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #119 Ann Mansolino The North Pole Has turned its back on the sun And Earth continues on its orbit Into polar night, As you have done; Days begin to lengthen, Begging to be filled With someone. I continue in my daily run, Go to work And then […]
Midsummer Madness
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #115 “June 27th, 2016” The familiar traveller Occupied a corner In the shadow of the ancient stones And watched the midsummer madness: The casting of bones, Tiresome debauchery And the drinking Of sediments of cheap wine. Smashing the defaced phallus, The rakefire took his leave And set off […]
We Are Stardust
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt #165 “Collage 26” Life is full of shaggy dog stories, Like the ones told by drifters As you walk along the railway track Or the yarn the baby-sitter Spun about a haunted shack. That summer in the lonely garden With the ocean’s breathy chill, You were visited by a […]
Ironing on a Wet Tuesday
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: Empire of Scents This Tuesday Grace has set us the challenge of writing a poem about scents. It’s a wet Tuesday, Rain spits at the closed window And I’m listening to the radio, Following in grandmother’s footsteps. The iron steams. Clothes, rescued from the line Are scented with […]
Grandfather’s Roses
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille #12 This Monday Bjorn invited us to write on the theme of ‘roses’ in 44 words and started by treating us to a famous poem by Robert Burns and a not so well known picture of ‘Roses and Beetle’ by Vincent Van Gogh. I enjoyed both and decided […]
Mountain Sounds
My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge #104 “by the mountain spring” by Goda Virginija Bendoraitienė by the mountain spring we talk about the same things just in other words © Goda Virginija Bendoraitienė accompanied by nature: duet […]
My Response to Sonnet 12
Read by an actor at Arachne Press’s Midsummer Night in the Garden:
Summer Melodrama
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Friday Music Prompt 48: Fields of June and to dVerse Poets Pub Open Link Night #175 We crossed fields patched with scudding cloud and sun, Down lovers’ lane, edged with buttercups and dog rose. Hand in hand, we made our way as one, To a haze of purple grass in the water […]
A bit of fun on EU Referendum Thursday
The Power of Nonsense My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale weaver #73 June 23rd – Making Sense of Nonsense I was never more certain Of the power of nonsense Until I read The Book of Universal Cerfin By the expert Bott Grojean, Who, I believe, has a PhDee In physics and astronomy. Cerfin is a unique […]
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