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Posted on April 30, 2020
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I got behind… again I got distracted… again There was other stuff going on… again Like last year When I didn’t finish And the year before When I barely finished So why This year of all years When there is more reason than ever… Continue Reading “NaPoWriMo Day 22: NaPoWriMo Blues”
Category: health, mental health, poetry, Uncategorized, writingTags: 2020, Coronavirus, covid-19, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2020, inspiration, lockdown, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2020, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, quarantine, writer’s block, writing
Posted on April 30, 2020
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It almost seems Pathetic To complain When we have a roof A house Money coming in- less, mind So much less And no help from on high Thanks to creeping criteria And tape not so much red As blue-blood coloured Fuck the Tories Fuck… Continue Reading “NaPoWriMo Day 21: Lockdown Blues”
Category: health, mental health, parenting, poetry, UncategorizedTags: Coronavirus, covid-19, crisis schooling, Depression, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2020, home education, lockdown, mental health, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2020, parenting, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, quarantine, school, self-isolation, social distancing
Posted on April 30, 2020
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My nine year old wrote Of the pale moon gracefully Riding stallion clouds. I begged him for it That magical phrase, just to Say how proud I am.
Category: childhood, poetry, UncategorizedTags: GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2020, kids, kids poetry, kids writing, moon, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2020, national peotry writing month, national poetry month, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets
Posted on April 30, 2020
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I decided to write about things I love Things that move me Change me Settle me Heartily aware Of the potential narcissism Of ME ME ME But here we go… ASMR Sits in my heart A triumph of tingles From my scalp to my… Continue Reading “NaPoWriMo Day 19: ASMR”
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Posted on April 30, 2020
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Is it animal, vegetable, or mineral? We’re playing twenty questions And the boy can’t quite figure out If glass is one of the three Or none One or none Or some of all It’s mineral I say, without thinking But then I do think… Continue Reading “NaPoWriMo Day 18: Glass”
Category: childhood, parenting, poetry, UncategorizedTags: games at home, glass, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2020, kids, lockdown games, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2020, national poetry month, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poetry month, poets, sand, twenty questions
Posted on April 30, 2020
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Crawling out of swamps Dripping metaphors Like similes That sear the skin Scream off Siren wails and Black eyes pierce The bard’s heart A bobbing larynx Gulping at tightness In throat. Waiting with a lute, Waiting to write of fear Instead, song upon song… Continue Reading “NaPoWriMo Day 17: Black Eyes”
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Posted on April 19, 2020
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I had an idea For words In the middle of the night In vino veritas Perhaps But definitely In vino no memoriae. (For the love of cheese someone clean up my Latin! Please!)
Category: poetry, Uncategorized, writingTags: drinking, drunk, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2020, memory, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2020, national poetry month, National Poetry Writing Month, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, wine
Posted on April 19, 2020
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Following the NaPoWriMo prompt to write a poem inspired by music. I wish I could write a poem Like Williams wrote The Lark Ascending Those trills and furls of sheer beauty Capturing the essence of song The spring morn, The warmth of the sun… Continue Reading “NaPoWriMo Day Fifteen: Lark Transmogrified”
Category: Music, poetry, Uncategorized, writingTags: birds, birdsong, classical music, George Meredith, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2020, Lark Ascending, music, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2020, National Poetry Writing Month, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, Ralph Vaughan Williams, romantic music, The Lark Ascending, Vaughan Williams
Posted on April 18, 2020
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Several times a day I make my husband groan Now that one’s not a euphemism, though it could be, I own… But he despairs of my wit, or my attempt at it The egg-cessive ingredients in the omelette Working it out with a pencil… Continue Reading “NaPoWriMo Day Fourteen: A Pun, My Soul”
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Posted on April 18, 2020
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Only in dreams do I feel The success of nostalgia The culmination of that homesickness For that place I’ve never been At least not in this life Or with this body Or maybe with this soul I don’t pretend to know How it all… Continue Reading “NaPoWriMo Day Thirteen: Only in Dreams”
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