My mind is swimming in alphabet soup Letters clog the synapses And punctuation tears at my lobes Syntax is setting down roots between the hemispheres Hard curved consonants fill the ventricles Soft airy vowels stuff the cortex Metric metre measures all the gaps Structure breaks the blood brain barrier Shooting me through with toxins Plot […]
I am hiding safe In a poisonous jungle Tentacle petals sway Pinks and purples Strong, vibrant Beautifully deadly I am hiding safe In the anemone’s flower Transparent and small Who could find me? Beneath a protective canopy Ignored, secure I am hiding safe As beauty drags Beauty from the sky Electric flash of scales Consumed […]
I haven’t quite managed an hour a day on songs, mainly due to also working on the illustrations for a Little Book of Easter Poetry for my little girl – but excuses are excuses! On the other hand it is all poetry/words/rhyme/rhythm related so I think I can justify it to myself. I have been […]
Purple prose bruised and dowdy Awaiting its glory By bleeding out the joy White fluffy prose Of sugar spun lace Melting on the tongue Insubstantial and unsatisfying Making you fat and hungry for more Green prose Innocently jealous Wanting what will smother The voice Young and tender sap Rising to the stars
The burning mist Cut by an icy sun Marks the landscape Old and opalescent Milky translucence Hiding the scars Making me forget It is tarmac Upon which I tread A black river Leading to concrete caves Angular and harsh All is blanketed Softened And kind once more
This is my entry to the ESA (European Space Agency) art competition Create Your Space. If you like it you have until the beginning of February (2011) to vote for it. You vote by liking my comment on the ESA image on their Facebook page – here is the link you’ll need to tell you […]
I am starting by saying I am definatly doing WoPoWriMo in February and NaPoWriMo in April! I found these two writing challenges so useful and inspiring last year 🙂 I have also found MoP (Month of Poetry) which is January – I am using this to work on my children’s poetry over at Orange Monster. […]
Well it’s the end of the year and I didn’t achieve everything I was hoping too with my poetry but I have got several collections ready if not all published, took part in readings for Oxfam and things like the Piaf evening. Been invited to event as the guest poet and began to get invited […]
Nerves Acrid spiced oil Coconut in sweet fizz Bile Electric tang Salty palpitation Followed by Celebration Creamy fire Cold on ice Warm molten Golden Music thumping Microwave pings
Sticky drab concrete cage Laughing minions Autonomous noise Muffled thudding heart Fingers grip cold glass Smooth oily, acrid spice Coconut fizziness Overlays bile Electric tanged salt Panic shears Crescendo found Unbelieved Giddy hunger sickens Glasses clink Malted honey burns throat Molten warmth Annihilation Though incomplete