Sometimes the word spill does not come The page is blank and the pen still The void aches, filled with tantalising edges Glimpses of the worlds that would be Sometimes they are un graspable They are elusive things, ghosts of stories Yet to be written. Words tumble through the mind Until the thought is obliterated […]
Once I thought it was easy Once I thought it all defined Then came along another truth I had to stop and find My brain stretched My mind popped And in a chair I did flop At thoughts of a void Filled with billion of glowing plasma balls I investigated using mathematical tools Showing systems […]
Silver sentinel Amongst heat Wrapped up tight You did your job Fire – forest gloaming Keep safe Until flames subside Until we need you again
This speech by the writer Neil Gaimon I found extremely powerful especially for someone like me who has to do creative things to survive. But also the fact that I have not done things the normal way and that I keep hitting barriers such as I don’t have an art degree so therefore do not […]
I don’t normally do more than one blog post a week on here but I felt that this was something that deserved the extra effort and push. Mab Jones who I first saw at the 2010 Wychwood Festival, is currently in Japan sharing welsh culture in the form of poetry. She is being funded for […]
This week is National Science and Engineering Week 2012 here in the UK – it is a week of events and out reach to show just how much we need science, and how much fun it can be along with just what is still out there to discover! I am of course the Scientific-Artist or […]
I was just going to post the science poems I’d written this month but then I read these news articals: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/nov/16/young-jobseekers-work-pay-unemployment http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/feb/18/tesco-branch-hit-pay-protest http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/feb/16/disabled-unpaid-work-benefit-cuts?newsfeed=true No Wage Slave Bayed go down the commercial drain Human rights u-bend Send wraith of pain Terminally ill aint catching Government snatching Chiold’s under the poverty line Finned for not being on […]
Jupiter Sitting there Protector Shielding us from rocky storms Or Sinister betrayer Sling-shoting armageddon Towards us A Projectile wraith For your rocky brethren Nestled near the sun What will the maths show Which way will the simulation swing Gaseous Giants – Benevolent gods Or Destroyers of Worlds Wrapped in jealousy That their own embryonic systems […]
For me 2011 has been caught up with the wonder and new challenges of an extra member of our family – born at the end of January she like her sister is already a subject and inspiration of many children’s poems. Of which The Little Book of New Baby Poetry was the first of Many. […]
This post probably belong on Orange Monster but I’m in a very Christmassy mood so it is going on here – I have had the idea of producing several picture/story books that are long poems. The first is based on an advent calendar and I have a substantial part of it written already, the next […]