A Shred of Life
I shredded another box
of your stuff today
formal papers, business stuff
old bank statements and such
nothing very personal,
sitting there, whilst your affairs
slid through my fingers
falling like snowflakes into
the angry whirring cauldron
end of life cross-cut chaff,
I’d already decided that
it was going into the bottom
of a trench, beneath manure
...Thursday 18th April 2024 7:35 pm
My Perfect View (unofficial competition)
In view of all the negativity, going on in some place or another around the world, at the moment I thought it would be a nice idea for the Write Out Loud poets to enter the unofficial 'My Perfect View' competition.
Write a poem that describes your perfect view (this can be as per my kick-off example a fantasy composite) and add it to the blog section titled My Perfect View and remember to tag i...
Wednesday 17th April 2024 4:43 pm
Opposites
thrust together at big school
we, an unusual pair, shared
an over-polished beech desk
and splintered bench, etched
with desperate hieroglyphs
of past pubescent love affairs,
your long hair, always a problem
called out at the weekly check,
mine, a smarter quiff that
wouldn't go amiss today,
thus, we tumbled through our teens
you with sure breezy talent,
me gri...
Monday 15th April 2024 10:23 am
Flex
time is not constant,
although many consider it to be,
it has speed, mood, behaviour
and consequence,
of course we might bend,
fashion, stretch or mould time
to our will, but time
moves warily through its
promiscuous environment,
cool at dawn, lazy when warm,
erratic in rain, clumsy in fog,
its speed and passage varies
in nights’ fleeting darkness or
...Sunday 14th April 2024 11:27 am
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