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April 14th “What’s your name boy?” Demanded the tweed-clad, German-speaking, paunch-bellied Deputy Headmaster into whom I had just collided on my first day at Grammar School. His voice echoed around my head and the polished wooden corridors of the faux Elizabethan academe I would come to call jail. I served five years of a life-sentenceContinue reading “What’s your name boy?”

April 13th Today’s poetry prompt was to write a poem in the form of a news article we wish would come out tomorrow. As a Public Relations professional, I know that over 80% of news is made up of material provided by PR agencies, offices, and consultants. I’m also very aware that “news” has beenContinue reading “Haiku News – 14th April 2021”

Our poetry prompt today is called “Past and Future.” This prompt challenges us to write a poem using at least one word/concept/idea from each of two specialty dictionaries: Lempriere’s Classical Dictionary and the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction. As we are working with catalogues, I used my own reference details and chose three words orContinue reading “To Venice and the stars and back”

April 11th Our NaPoWriMo challenge for today is to write a two-part poem, in the form of an exchange of letters. The first stanza (or part) should be in the form of a letter that we write to ourselves or to a famous fictional or historical person. The second part should be the letter weContinue reading “Thoughts of camembert”

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”