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”
Tag Archives: Poetry
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”
Why does Sisyphus go fishing?
And so we reach our final challenge of 2024, that being to write a poem in which the speaker is identified with, or compared to, a character from myth or legend, as in Claire Scott’s poem “Scheherazade at the Doctor’s Office.” Every day this month (year) I have gone to work on the first thingContinue reading “Why does Sisyphus go fishing?”
Bouée de sauvetage pêche
As a writer (I still shy away from the title poet at times) I often find myself in a dilemma, one to which the vagaries of my mind tutor the torment. The unravelling of meaning of poems – is it meant to be a test that makes you feel inadequate at the best of times?Continue reading “Bouée de sauvetage pêche”
Missives & Musings 