My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt: May 8 2016: The Tarot – Major Arcana – The Hanged Man The Hanged Man ©wintersmagic on deviantart Dusty daffodil yellow Has disappeared Along with callow Buds and leaves Overpowered By fluorescent fields Of rapeseed flowers And golden gorse Hints that summer Waits off-stage Waiting for new colours In […]
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A poem to sum up my feelings in this post.
A Mother’s Love
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma and Beyond – Madrigal This week Bastet has treated us to a mini history of Italian poetry and introduced us to the Italian madrigal, a pastoral or love song written in lines of seven or eleven syllables and consisting of two or three tercets followed by one or […]
Thundering Atlantic
Another Golden Shovel poem, with opening lines from Seamus Heaney’s poem ‘North’. You and I have finally returned. We found our way back to roots and branches of a family tree, long buried in a small churchyard near a strand in the wave-hammered storm-swept curve and wind-whispering embrace of a west coast bay. We […]
Digging for poems
My response to dVerse Meeting the Bar: the Golden Shovel Form Above, below and in between I trace familiar features with my Fumbling, feathery finger. Up, down, under and Over, I feel well-worn skin with my Tentative thumb Memorising the Tensions before I squat Over the ink pot, filling a pen That rarely rests Knowing […]
Traffic Lights
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver #64: May 5 2016: School Yard Games She knew he was red-light dangerous, The kind of guy her friends warned her about, One to avoid when the lights went out. But red is a colourful aphrodisiac, A silken poppy on a summer’s day. She couldn’t let her bad […]
Happy!
I logged on this morning and was happy to see the poem I submitted to Visual Verse has been published on-line; I found it on page thirty-nine!
Distance
My response to dVerse Poetics – Sentiments of the Southwest Living on this small, waterlogged island, thousands of miles from America’s Southwest, North Norfolk skies are expansive and wide, dramatic skyscapes painted in colours of storms and summertime. I try to picture abundant rolling hills while standing on flatland – no prairies but fields of […]
Saying Goodbye to the Island
I just received another email to say that this poem made the shortlist but unfortunately didn’t make the final cut. The magazine to which I submitted had a great many submissions.They wished me the best of luck publishing this work quickly elsewhere. The sea rises Eating away the coast Until the village Becomes an island ghost […]
Rejected again
I received another rejection by email yesterday. They didn’t say why, just that the poems didn’t ‘fit the current issue scheme’. This time the submission was for a collection of six poems which I have shared on my blog – that was allowed by the magazine, as long as they weren’t physically published. They were: […]
Skipping
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille – 8 I can’t believe I just sat down with a bowl of fruit and yogurt and wrote this in one go – in exactly 44 words! I can still feel the thrill of running in my friends turning at both ends me jumping in time to their […]
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