Turquoise Monster

Rain beat and beat and beat Until roads ran as rivers Fields pooled as lakes Wind ripped the roof tiles And the sea swarmed the land But still the rain Beat and Beat and Beat

I am so so happy that the writer Becket responded to my tweet saying that my Haiku was perfect, he loves this particular poetry form, so it means a lot 🙂 Not to mention the excitement of being noticed by an author you like 🙂 I am also going to be reading The Little Book […]

I am rocking the poetry writing now – I am well a head of schedule and beginning to think about how I am going to spend the rest of my poetry allocated time 🙂 I have a lot of poems to type up, with last months efforts too I now have almost a reporters note […]

I’ve never written a haiku but there was a competition to win a signed book by a man called Becket who I came across via Anne Rice. So I wrote the below poem, I didn’t win but everyone seemed to like the Haiku – it is not the traditional form but does count as a […]

There’s a lovely little pusskin A hungry little cat Who is waking from a cosy, snuggled little nap The lovely little pusskin Likes a little pat But here comes the biscuits It’s time for her snack!

Melting the slipstream You and me So we can start again

My Reality Tunnel is blocked The light at the end obscured Escape was inevitable Now it is all but deniable An inversion has occurred A Reality Funnel Sucking me down To the half truths And questions of perceptions

Dark twisted loam Lain in ribbons upon the landscape River clogging, chocked the plane Drenched in the bones Of peoples that made it Toxic leachate spumes forth Nothing but their corroded skin Killing the life left

I got the bones of a general story introduction poem and the start of Cinderella written last night (after midnight), they are going to take a lot of tweaking to make story and poetry work. My general aim is to work through the fairy tales and legends, I already have a few rhyming stories like […]