Mabh Savage
Words and the world passing by; how it sings to me; how I clamour back.
Tag: Poet
Daytime
Posted on June 28, 2020 by mabhsavage
I go to bed in daytime now The night is so passé The songbirds are my lullaby The sunrise lights my way To sleep, perchance to dream, I hope Though not of recent times Of angst and shopping trips gone mad Of social distance…
Category: health, mental health, poetry, PoliticsTags: british beaches, Coronavirus, covid-19, Dominic Cummings, dreams, insomnia, lockdown, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, second wave, sleep, social distancing, stay home stay safe
NaPoWriMo Day 22: NaPoWriMo Blues
Posted on April 30, 2020 by mabhsavage
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…
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
NaPoWriMo Day 21: Lockdown Blues
Posted on April 30, 2020 by mabhsavage
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…
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
NaPoWriMo Day 20: Stallion Moon
Posted on April 30, 2020 by mabhsavage
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
NaPoWriMo Day 18: Glass
Posted on April 30, 2020 by mabhsavage
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…
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
NaPoWriMo Day 17: Black Eyes
Posted on April 30, 2020 by mabhsavage
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…
Category: poetry, UncategorizedTags: fandom, geralt of rivia, geraskier, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2020, jaskier, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2020, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, the witcher, witcher
NaPoWriMo Day Sixteen: Drunkk
Posted on April 19, 2020 by mabhsavage
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
NaPoWriMo Day Fifteen: Lark Transmogrified
Posted on April 19, 2020 by mabhsavage
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…
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
NaPoWriMo Day Fourteen: A Pun, My Soul
Posted on April 18, 2020 by mabhsavage
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…
Category: poetry, Uncategorized, writingTags: comedy, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2020, humor, humour, marriage, marridl ife, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2020, National Poetry Writing Month, plays on words, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poetry month, poets, puns, wordplay
NaPoWriMo Day Thirteen: Only in Dreams
Posted on April 18, 2020 by mabhsavage
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…
Category: mental health, pagan, poetry, Uncategorized, writingTags: dreams, fernweh, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2020, homesickness, isolation, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2020, national poetry month, National Poetry Writing Month, nostalgia, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, self isolating, self-isolation, social distancing, wanderlust
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