April 9. Day nine of NaPoWriMo 2025 and we are tested with the task of writing a work that rhymes but does not follow a set pattern or form. Today I took an online visit to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, USA and looked at the Birdcase exhibition (yes, I know it should beContinue reading “No winds blow here”
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Skin deep
April 8. The Museum of Bad Art in Boston, USA claims to house a collection of sincere art in which something has gone wrong in a way that results in a compelling, interesting image. I recommend it’s current collection of In the Nood, it is quite the something and from where I borrowed the aboveContinue reading “Skin deep”
The Amazing Owl
April 7. Once again, the prompt took me to brand new and far off places. I picked up the gauntlet of being asked to write a self-portrait poem, in which I explain why I am not a particular piece of art and in which I use at least one outlandish comparison, and a strange (andContinue reading “The Amazing Owl”
Banana
April 6. Today’s prompt has (I felt) a cryptic twist – pick a number between 1 and 10 then name and focus your poem on the taste of a respective item in a grid that also provides words to include in the poem. I chose the number eight and instantly regretted it as the subjectContinue reading “Banana”
Broken Moon
April 4. What is life with a painting? That is our subject for today. I love the way our prompts transport me to times and places I had forgotten; this is not a very good one, as in time and place, not the prompt. I bought the print of Egon Schiele’s Woman in Green StockingsContinue reading “Broken Moon”
Harmony
April 3. Today’s task, to write a poem that obliquely explains why you are a poet and not some other kind of artist – or not something else! I wanted to explore the idea of a poet/person having more than one side and choice in how they might experience the world. I chose an imageContinue reading “Harmony”
Two voices calling
April 2. Today’s challenge is to write a poem that directly addresses someone, and that includes a made-up word. We were prodded in the direction of two artists, Georgia O’Keefe and Anne Carson, neither of who I’d heard of before, in between which I went in search of some common ground on which grew contemporaryContinue reading “Two voices calling”
Within and without
April 1. Asked to use or be inspired by words or terms unknown to us from two glossaries. I chose Zauberoper (works that mingle comedy with the supernatural, often dealing with the exploits of the common man in uncommon surroundings) and, although I knew about Found Poetry, I have not heard of a Found ObjectContinue reading “Within and without”
A Freudian slice of Bacon
March 31. The self-portraits of Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud have captivated me for a long time. so I grabbed the prompt and the chance to write about both of them. Tectonic plates of colour collide, and slide,So much man mud, muddled, confused.Internally, Externally abused. The fist to the head,The minds that bleed; and bled.WhoContinue reading “A Freudian slice of Bacon”
Missives & Musings 