Insects buzz The crowd Drones of summer hedge in all reason And One shout Takes us down Insectile humans Creating our own Eradication With Toxic filled nests Feasting till Starvation The human creature Locust Wasp Cockroach Fly Insectile buzz Human annihilation with Extermination of kind
My brain split Spewing maggots of thought Upon the page Eating the shape of words A story My story It begins – Sweet rotting succulence And ends with – Dry brittle dessication
Recumbent lovers lay Pebbles in an icy stream Touching here Touching there Higgeldy, Piggeldy Nature’s way Warmth mixes From their – Sleep enshrined forms
Tuesday I went into Cheltenham to record poetry 🙂 Cheltenham’s After Dark magazine videoed me and three others doing a variety of poetry and prose (our own work). It will be appearing on their site in a couple of weeks 🙂
At the beginning we were like snow flakes Elegant and bueatiful Slowely drifting through the sky We landed on the ground Blanketing all in pure white Rainbows glinted off of us But then we lay and they trod upon is Changing us into dirty slush Dangerous, slippery A trap for the unweary Icicles grew and […]
Well it is the end of NaPoWriMo and I have again got more than 30 poems all of which need looking at and sort and maybe cough throwing away! I really like these writing challenges they really help get me going. Anyway the blog will now be back to weekly posts 🙂
One of the things I have been doing this month has been to generate art from art adn I like slightly off beat things so my husband showed me the Miltos Manetas Collection which belongs to some artist guy he sees in London. I loved the collection and decided it was perfect to use as […]
I have also been mucking about with what I think of as ‘cross word’ poems and ones where you just write the sentences from the first letter – these again are very much visual and I have been attempting to combine them with a concept I came up with which is the Code Poem. I’ve […]
I have actually been spending most of this month creating a set of visual poems which I am calling Putting a Face to the Name Poems – I literally create a face out of a persons name and it is harder than it sounds! I need to do the finials of these before I can […]
Wizzen broken monkey Skin grey Wrinkeled crepe paper Downey whiskers Sharpe dowdy white In striped pajarmers Convict of the ward On death row Drowning in food A mistake A cull? Tortured by those who save Broken ribs From pumping you out Cracked lips From resusitation Now blue Eyes revolve As a horse in panic They […]