2.28: Big Deal
The Sloth: A Big Deal (for real) Here’s my news story-based poem (using pretty much just words from the article itself). The story was...
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Apr 30, 20132 min
NaPoWriMo 30: Here, Roots Are Not Joined
You fear, you fear her return. IT IS THE END OF NAPOWRIMO. And it really has been marvellous. I’ve just one poem (apart from that below)...
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Apr 29, 20131 min
NaPoWriMo 29: Excerpts from a Report on the New Poem Aquarium
An empty aquarium – shall we fill it with poems? Shall we? So yes, it being the end of NaPoWriMo, I’m going quite deranged and using...
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Apr 25, 20132 min
NaPoWriMo 25: Picnic Ballad
Here is your hamper… …have a lovely time Sometimes, you’ve just got to let it all out. But, so a long-standing motto of mine goes: Make...
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Apr 24, 20132 min
NaPoWriMo 24: Dust Across the Beam
Hyde Park Picture House: 100 in 2014! As you may have noticed, things have been a bit cinematic on my blog during NaPoWriMo. I’m reading...
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Apr 23, 20131 min
NaPoWriMo 23: A Triolet for Entropy
The Universe loves things to get more disordered. (So most of us fit right in – We Are Stardust!) I’m running on a slightly altered...
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Apr 21, 20132 min
NaPoWriMo 21: White Violin or, Lord Raby’s Massive Silver Wine Cooler
Lord Raby’s Massive Silver Wine Cooler – as so described on the signs in Temple Newsam House! Filling in an earlier gap from NaPoWriMo: I...
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Apr 21, 20132 min
NaPoWriMo 20: Rising Suns
Piss-en-lit! Taraxacum! Yesterday’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to use a prescribed list of words and include 5 or more in a poem. Jo Bell’s...
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Apr 15, 20131 min
NaPoWriMo 15: Transaction on a Spring Day – A Pantum
The OWL (Observation Wheel Leeds) at night – which is the ‘great revolving wheel’ in the poem… Today’s prompt: a Malay verse-form “of...
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Apr 15, 20131 min
NaPoWriMo 12: Want/Need
A magick key (for an inadvertently key-shaped poem) A quick one this: I don’t often get slushy and when I do, it tends to be short! And...
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Apr 13, 20131 min
NaPoWriMo 11: Double-Duvet Mecca
A pair of washers at a washeteria Day 11’s prompt was to write a Tanka (five-line stanzas with 5-7-5-7-7 syllables) – so I’ve used the...
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Apr 9, 20132 min
NaPoWriMo 6: A Valediction for Cleanliness
Not a picture of me – this was relatively clean for the Wolf Run… Taken a moment out from the meditation and practice retreat I’m on...
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Apr 4, 20132 min
NaPoWriMo 3: A Sea Shanty for Failed Urban Development
Prompt no. 3 of NaPoWriMo was to write a sea shanty. This pleased me greatly as I’m a part of (when I can make it!) the Ocean Loiners – a...
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Mar 25, 20132 min
Little Shadows
How a bee might see a flower – except, not really, because they *smell shapes* (kind of). I’m brewing a project – a series  of workshops...
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Feb 26, 20133 min
Can You Take a Moment to Rate This Whale? or, The Appening
A Whale App? But not one like the one in my poem-story, I hope. It appears I’m once again interested in all things animal (as opposed to...
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Feb 4, 20132 min
The Angry Birds
Part of an excellent comic strip on cat killers from: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill – go on their website and buy their...
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Jan 20, 20131 min
Which Winter?
A snow-dome iris, cracking through the screen… This spell of wintry weather reminded me of a poem I wrote and put on some Christmas cards...
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