Author Archives: grahamswords1962

April 10th The prompt today did not inspire me, so I wrote something I’ve been meaning to get out of my head for some time. The weight on her shoulders is visible from 200 yards, Or 182.88 metres if you attend her school. No doubt her physics teacher would praise her capacity to carry theContinue reading “Waiting at the bus stop”

April 9th The NaPoWriMo task of the day is to write a list poem. It could be drawn up by anyone real or imaginary and does not have to be realistic in whole. I had my first published work when I was 11 and at Grammar School. I had two pieces of writing published inContinue reading “Notes to self”

April 8th Our challenge for today is to read a few of the poems from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, and then write our own poem in the form of a monologue delivered by someone who is dead. I read several of them, lots actually, and realised how intertwined these deceased authors were,Continue reading “Charlie and Ely”

April 7th. Create a Fib poem in a six-line form. Fib poems have a syllable count that is based off the Fibonacci sequence of 1/1/2/3/5/8. Mine features a creature I have long admired. Toot Toot Flightpath Streamlined decaled sight. Foreign garden triangulated Sweet target sighted, Alighted. Toot Toot

April 6th. Take a line from a favourite book, use it as the title, write a poem around the title then rename it. Even in the most deranged of his imagined states, love was the most unexpected interloper. It walked into his ward, his mind, his personal and personally designed theatre of war – unnoticed.Continue reading “For the love of a good man”

April 5th On the fifth day we were asked to take the form of an existing poem and create something new in its initial imprint, I chose one of my all-time favourites, Auden’s Stop All the Clocks. I have tried to turn Auden’s blues on its head. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,Continue reading “Strike up the Band”

April 4th Today, we were challenged to select a photograph from the perpetually disconcerting @SpaceLiminalBot, and write a poem inspired by one of the odd, in-transition spaces.I chose the one below. Look at you standing there, illuminated in your glare. Why have you come here? What did you hope to find? Do you think IContinue reading “Still Here”

April 3rd, 2021I chose not to take today’s suggested inspiration for NaPoWriMo, instead I wrote this message to at least two people I know who are currently holding a great wealth of memories during very difficult times. We are bright moons reflected in other people’s skies, Flying through mysterious phases, sometimes out of sight andContinue reading “Bright Moons”

April 2nd Today we were challenged to write a poem about our own road not taken – about a choice of ours that has “made all the difference,” and what might have happened had we made a different choice – here’s mine. Two minutes or less? No one knows. But in that time, I chose.Continue reading “March 3rd, 1988”