Author Archives: grahamswords1962

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”