A few days after the Bard’s birthday we have been asked to write a sonnet, the poetic form so most connected with love. We weren’t given a subject today, but I had already primed my mind after seeing this photo yesterday taken by fellow bird enthusiast Stephen Beaver. who is also a member of theContinue reading “Marvel of the sea”
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The future is unwritten
When asked to write about a music concert I’ve attended, the options are expansive to say the least. To choose to write about one that left an impact on me leave is molecular by comparison. Sunday, January 19, 1978, Sheffield Top Rank It took seconds to steam up the windows.Eight teenage bodies exploded into theContinue reading “The future is unwritten”
Flowers
Today, we are to write a poem that involves people making music together, and that references – with a lyric or line – a song or poem that is important to us. I chose to go abstract after writing one of the lines two days ago that I felt a desperation to give purpose toContinue reading “Flowers”
Listen
Today’s prompt is a bit of a gift for me, as my poetry often features birds and their songs.This April I have been letting my writing go as loose as it felt right with lots of freeform and bits of prose thrown in. Today I thought I’d take a break and go for a haiku,Continue reading “Listen”
In my place
Wow! OMG WOW! What an inspiration the prompt delivered this morning. I woke to find Diane Wakoski sat at my breakfast table where she had poured strong, fresh Colombian coffee for two! She pushed an empty bowl across the dried pine surface and said, “here, fill that”, and then sat back, smiled through her beatnikContinue reading “In my place”
Chippy Tea
Today we are to try our hand at writing our own poem in which something that normally unfolds in a set and well understood way — like a baseball game or dance recital – goes haywire but is described as if it is all very normal. I struggled with to keep strictly to the pathContinue reading “Chippy Tea”
Paul called
Our challenge this penultimate April Sunday, is to write a poem informed by musical phrasing or melody, that employs some form of sound play (rhyme, meter, assonance, alliteration). One way to approach this is to think of a song we know and then basically write new lyrics that fit the original song’s rhythm/phrasing. I watchedContinue reading “Paul called”
Billy left me for Tasmania
Today, we were asked to write a poem that tells a story in the style of a blues song or ballad. I will return to this another day. The love of a young boyIs the most tender of thingsIt’s a summer of pure joyA wonderous butterfly wing. For the love of a young boyIs aContinue reading “Billy left me for Tasmania”
Lisa’s song
Today’s optional prompt is to craft a poem that recounts an experience of driving/riding and singing, incorporating a song lyric. Today’s resource took us on a virtual visit to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum where I found out about a still unsolved robbery in 1990, when a dozen invaluable works of art were stolen. IContinue reading “Lisa’s song”
Breakfast for two
Today we are challenged to write a poem themed around friendship, with imagery or other ideas taken from a painting by Leonora Carrington, and a painting by Remedios Varo. Both artists belong (in part) to the surrealist school which I normally love, but I struggled to find anything to spark me with Carrington’s work. WhenContinue reading “Breakfast for two”
Missives & Musings 