The wonderful people at Read Write Poem have declared NaPoWriMo Wednesdays to be List Poem days, so I get a (comparative) let-off. And today's prompt was especially appropriate: Today’s list is about what you do instead of doing something else. ... Maybe this list poem will be about the ways you procrastinate. Or maybe you avoid …
NaPoWriMo 09 – a few thoughts halfway through
Hallelujah, we're half way through. Time for a quick status report. I have to admit, I'm finding it really tough. Get behind by a day, and suddenly life makes damn sure you stay that way. Phone calls, lost relatives, life, the universe and everything. I'm also finding it hard to stay positive – I know …
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NaPoWriMo 09 – day 14
3 am and the owls are at it again. From our bed, I can see through the ceiling, through the slates and into the fabric of summer night. Without meaning, I am out of bed at the door in my nightdress, turning the key. The stone wall of our house hugging me close. Astride the …
NaPoWriMo – day 13
Gone of all the mistakes to land myself back in if I could focus on one moment it would be that one his eyebrow lifted, his lip almost curled and the words he could have spat at me laid instead in perfect syllables precious as any jewel I ever wore I have played it again, …
NaPoWriMo 09 – day 12
These parts Where do you come from? Here. These parts. ('In My Country', Jackie Kay ) From underneath a rock and I'll slip back there when I'm good and ready. From somewhere back in the past you thought you'd discarded on an old park bench. From your own head, your dreams, your prayers, your worst …
A Dark Feathered Art 