Author Archives: grahamswords1962

Napowrimo 2023, Day 29 In following today’s prompt, I stumbled across Byron’s When We Two Parted and was inspired by the metre and rhyme to create a two part poem (see what I did there?) that includes a food that has a speaking line as a particular person. Earlier this month I harangued the ButterContinue reading “Case for the defence”

NaPoWriMo 2023, Day 28 Task: To write a poem based on an index. This inspired little in me till I turned to the back of my copy of The 20th Century in Poetry (Hulse, Michael and Rae, Simon (eds) Elbury Press, 2011) and spotted the index of first lines of the poems. I took aContinue reading “Unpublished life”

NaPoWriMo 2023, Day 27 I don’t think I understood yesterday’s prompt clearly, so I’ve gone the opposite direction today and taken everything in an abstract direction and reused a character from this year’s works that a good counsellor of mine liked. And just for once, this one has no “bearing” on reality or social comment!Continue reading “The Purple Polar Bear of Knowledge”

NaPoWriMo 2023, Day 26 Today we were tasked with writing a portrait poem and play with the meaning behind the name of the person in the image. I chose a self portrait of Lucian Freud, as I like him. Lucian is derived from Latin and means light, it was adopted by three Pope’s and aContinue reading “Lux Freyde”

NaPoWriMo 2023, Day 25 Just the thought of you, resting on my skin,The way a butterfly would kiss a cloud,Just that –That is enough. Enough to inundate my senses,Overwhelming them,A Nile of engulfing emotions,Breaking the banks of all I perceive. Such rarity you held in your arms, rare,Rare as a true-black tulip,Rare as a condemnedContinue reading “My true-black Tulip”

NaPoWriMo 2023, Day 24 Today we were asked to write a review of something that normally does not warrant one. I asked my Facebook friends to suggest a subject and or others that cold be included in the poem. I was given warts on toads, Dame Edna Everidge and how steel transforms at 723 degreesContinue reading “Steel Toads”

NaPoWriMo 2023, Day 23 Today’s prompt, a struggle, I think. How to, by numbers link, the lines devised inside my mind, to them connect in reason and rhyme, a place of mine, now lost in time. Happy birthday William me owd lad. …………………………………………… 1960’sClink, clink here comes the drink,White bottles sit in crates,And Mrs ThatcherContinue reading “Three Cheers”

NaPoWriMo 2023, Day 22 Today’s prompt asked us to take an Emily Dickinson poem and reimagine it to create another one of our own. I started reading her works and could not help but hear Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd in my head. So, I fused them by taking the song’s lyrics and the words fromContinue reading “Sugar Skulls”

NaPoWriMo 2023, Day 21 Choose an abstract noun from a list ( I chose Strength and Failure) and then use that as the title for a poem that contains very short lines, and at least one invented word. Ther are some pains that only the first-born can feel. They hang in there, stealing your breathContinue reading “Failure V Strength”

NaPoWriMo 2023, Day 20 What will archeologists make of the things we leave behind today?The following conversation between two future look-backers might give us a clue. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. “You can’t be serious?” “I’m telling you, 100% it’s an ancient dental implement.”“Dental tool? Do you take me for some kind of naïve fool?” “It is! Look at theContinue reading “Erased memories”