Archive for April, 2015

St Georges Day

Thursday, April 23rd, 2015

It’s St Georges Day about a dragon and a knight About tea and cake and an fairy tail fight So fly high the flag of red and white Be proud and loud but loose the racist shiite You know Anglos were once the foreign ones – right? As was St George, killed in his persecuted […]

Coffee An Obsession

Saturday, April 4th, 2015

He reckons I’m obsessed Obsessed he says Obsesses Brown caffeinated liquids Are my obsession Warm or cold Fizzy or flat As long as it has caffeine It has the knack I need The longing For thick frothy coffee You have to eat with a spoon The wanting Ice filled cola Or mocha with cream But […]

Ghosts in the Void

Friday, April 3rd, 2015

Trying to capture the things within Writers shiver, Artists paint, sculptures try But try in vain Always nothing but a ghost or shade Pale immitation Like the mathimatical landscape Reduced to notation Symbols used to show the world Those things in the void Behind our eyes

Festival Rain

Thursday, April 2nd, 2015

It’s festival rain again! AGAIN! Packing the tent is such a pain When you are canvas bound Listening to it sheeting down Watching the little bubbles form Before the riverlets of the storm A constellation of crystal blooms As we hide in this tents one room But this structure must come down Before the funky […]

Helpful

Wednesday, April 1st, 2015

Just a reminder to other poets that there is lots of helpful stuff over on the NaPoWriMo site. I personally am gearing up by writing from images in an old fashion mag I’ve ended up with – some of the prompts want to be short stories though!