Turquoise Monster

A birth A birthday A graduation A wedding A birth

Yes another wopo poem 🙂 Collected at pains Cleaned, rubbed smooth as can be Metallic dusky pink turquoise shimmer Minty green And rusty orange Transparent cohorts shine like precouse gems Collected and cleaned fingers not yet nimble glue and stick and paste turning such treasures as these into something more A card for mum, a […]

The wopowrimo brief was Coffee 🙂 Layered foam air in suspension Fluid tumbling over itself Brown turbulence Black with opalescent cloud Crystal saccarine twirled in chaotic dance And lastly the sediment layer – sludge

Darker are the dark places And lighter are the light ones But darker are the light places And lighter are the dark ones These domains of the Id These thought mirages Worlds of fiction Mirrors of our own

This poem is one of my ‘raw’ wopowrimo poems and is about a bust of a young widow in the Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery. Veiled Bleached looking bone Carved Sad hooded eyes Full of grief Distorted Hidden in folds Looking out In sorrow

This is a WoPoWriMo poem from one of Ella Gales fantastic pictures. Dark Geometry The noose is the shape of a section through a cone that bisects the apex The Bomber cuts a black triangle through the air The gas mask is a cacophony of curves, a new topography for the face The tank is […]

This is the poem of a story my little girl told us, done for WoPoWriMo – it is a raw poem so feel free to leave feedback. In the Beginning The stars where bueatiful And surrene But then the moon appeared Scattering crumbs off Self in their paths They tasted and became hungry Seething with […]

All you people What are you thinking? All you people Where are you going? All you people What are you doing? All you people Why are you flowing? Around.. Around me? All you people What are you seeing? All you people

This was inspired by another one of Ella Gales fantastic pictures and is only here becuase I did it as part of WoPoWriMo – I think its far more of a song than a poem. I even have a tune in my head for it! A little walk A little talk A little flower A […]

More WoPoWriMo poetry! Tent, saged Soggy, forlorn Thunder boomed Anaraked I stood Mallet in hand Dispair