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I will not grow old with me
At dVerse Poets a great challenge has been laid down by Sam … to write a Clarian Sonnet (basically 7 rhymed couplets, 10 syllables a line – um … mine’s worked out at 9 which makes it a Welsh Clarian...
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Peter Green
Tonight’s dversepoets prompt is music. Here’s one I wrote a while back after seeing Peter Green, founder member of the original Fleetwood Mac (still one of my fav blues bands) who was destroyed by...
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City that never sleeps
It’s that time of the week … dversepoets.com poets pub is open so enjoy some quality work and enjoy a glass or two with us Chiswick flyover is draped in jewellery. A string of red rubies stretching...
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Flight restrictions
After an eternity in queues, I stand on the threshold of the airport scanner, wondering just how deep it can search. Will impatience trigger its alarm? Can it probe into my neuro-pathways, note the...
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Numbers that add up and those that don’t
The Poets Pub has thrown up its doors .. join us at dversepoets.com These numbers are too big for my brain, which itself has 100 billion cells that fizz and whirl. Radio man bursts into my sleep. A new...
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The argument
This weekend dversepoets is encouraging us to use verbs from one arena and apply them to another. Here I use nature to put a different perspective on human emotions. Iron sky, steel river. There’s an...
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Hockney: A Bigger Picture
Tonight Victoria at dversepoets has laid down the challenge about stream of conscious writing. Recently I went to see David Hockney’s incredible exhibition at the Royal Academy and straightaway sat...
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Roll up, roll up
This weekend at dversepoets we’re enjoying the fun of the fair … but it is a transient world which I’ve tried to capture here Shouts and squeals from girls in heels with candy floss hair and darting...
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The storm
Tonight at dversepoets Sam has laid down an interesting fun challenge. Write a structured poem, but produce it in free verse. This is a Tanka form (five line nature poem with 5 syllables, 7, 5, 7, 7)...
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The girl at Carluccio’s
At dversepoets an excellent challenge has been laid down about modernism. Here I present a poem with the shape/structure conveying the subject while the underlying issue addresses a very modern problem...
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It’s too hot
At dversepoets we are celebrating a year since the pub opened. Come and join us! It’s too hot, even the flies can’t be arsed to bother me today. They just sit listlessly on the leg of the fan. And...
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Recalibration
This was an out-of-body experience. It wasn’t always like this. We dug deep, mined at levels beyond ourselves. Struck gold again and again. From sidelines thousands set aside their real worlds. Reached...
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Bravely gunning down Marikana miners
At dversepoets on Saturday Stu McPherson challenged us to become rebellious poets. My offering is late, but I bring it to Tuesday’s PubPoets session. I was deeply impacted by the event of the poem and...
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Our wettest August for 100 years
At dversepoets Mary Kling is enncouraging us to look to Autumn … and after the summer we’ve had I’monly too glad to do that! Summer curls up at the edges. Trees shrug it away. Wearied leaves begin to...
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Rage fuse
It’s Tuesday already and the Poets Pub is open at dversepoets . Guess we all lose it sometimes … this is one time that I did! I pulled at the thread in my hard-wired head. Just a loose end but a tug...
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Silence
Snow suffocates the shuffling of nature. No longer can wind worry at autumn’s leafy remnants. All loose ends are tied up, neatly buried in a new world that’s stealthed in under cover of darkness. In...
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Homeless countries
Thunderheads sucked out of today by the setting sun. Aerial icebergs. Silent lands. Searching for new horizons
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Black Marigolds*
*Just finished reading John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row – wonderful, wonderful piece of writing – and in it he included verses from Black Marigolds, a poem written in Sanskrit by young Brahman poet Chauras...
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Beowulf
If you missed this excellent programme … then it is well worth watching http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kpv23/Michael_Wood_on_Beowulf/
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It’s not all over really
Drawing a line in the sand, knowing it’s ok, not final, that the incoming tide brings a second chance.
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