The Rules of Twister or, Meaning of Whirl
One of the recent, unusual, French funnels. Recently, there have been tornadoes in both the USA and in France (!), where they are much...
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May 12, 20132 min
Going Viral: The Edge of Life
Coronavirus – which probably doesn’t infect textiles, like the virus in my poem I’ve been having a bit of a recovery period...
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Apr 26, 20131 min
NaPoWriMo 26: Stories and/or Plans and/or Ideas
This became the nickname for my Mum, so my step-dad made her an actual Mothership logo – AWESOIME. Here’s my Day 26 offering, from Jo...
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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 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 18, 20132 min
NaPoWriMo 18: Me or Him, Even
Even? A really quick one today, from both Jo Bell’s prompt (write about something you feel guilty for) and the NaPoWriMo prompt, to start...
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Apr 17, 20132 min
NaPoWriMo 17: Google Search Suggestions on the Day of Thatcher’s Funeral
Indeed she is not. At least we all have death in common though, eh? Off-prompt today, but will be writing a Blessing (after 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 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 7: The Pies of Awareness
The Pies of Awareness may or may not come from Gregg’s (who feature, by the way, as a Classical Allusion in another poem of mine by a...
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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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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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Jan 11, 20131 min
Prey or, White Metal Cave
A 3M-long scrub python is preyed on by a plane. In my effort to write two new poems a week based on things I’ve seen in the news, here’s...
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