i would like to introduce you to Erik [with a K] Sometimes when i am bored or feeling extremely creative, i like to disappear so that my alter ego, Brad Fish, can take centre stage - among the most popular things that Brad Fish was ever good for was a series of Dangerous Things You Can Least Expect videos lovingly known as DTYCLE where he warned us about all kinds of things we might have [...]
Amy Benn requests the poem 'Timothy Winters' by Charles Causley and Erik [with a K] gives it his best shot: [For more poems with Erik with a K, click here]
37 Million Light Years It arrived on the screen as a message of hope: "37 Million Light Years" The number seemed so ridiculously large that Corporal-Sergeant Janet Witherspoon wondered how it had ever been cause for concern in the first place. How does an exploratory spacecraft fitted out with all the latest technology still somehow manage to mess up so badly? 'Human error', she thought to herself. Living in a futuristic society beyond anything most people [...]
i sit crushed at my table... the inequality and shameless poverty i drive past each and every day rips open my chest grabs my beating heart and begins to squeeze... completely overwhelming me as i signal to the waitress to bring me another Yirgacheffe pour-over [For more Micropoetry that i have been trying out this year, click here]
i woke up this morning to the Twitterer hashtag #IfIDieInCustody sparked by yet another police vs person of colour incident in Americaland. i have already blogged about it here, but the semi-poet in me kept screaming words and phrases and so eventually i sat down and came up with three different flavoured micropoems, for three different groups of people: = = = = = = = white america to those of you who have made [...]
i believe there is a town where you stay called competence it seems you never venture far outside of its boundaries because any time i need some help you appear to be still very much there [To read more of my shorter poem vibes, click here]
i took a step as if to change the world but was arrested by the reflection in the mirror calling for me to go first [For my next poem, titled 'in competence', click here]
i dial your number hoping this time will be different but that elevator music is playing once more [For more of my Micropoetritic attempts, click here]
i have been well inspired by my new friend Original Dante who has an exceptional gift at writing Micropoetry to try put together some of my own. i have no idea how he manages to fit SO MUCH into so few words which has clearly always been a problem of mine and so maybe tackling some Micropoetry will help me in general to write more using less. So here goes - these are the Micropoems [...]
her voice whispers yes but it's the sadness i see behind her eyes that reveals the honest no [For some more of the poems i have come up with in 2015, click here]
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