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Micropoetry 2015

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 [...]

By |2015-07-14T09:44:54+02:00July 14th, 2015|poems and other creativity|23 Comments

Poem: Thoughts from the Blender

i recently discovered the incredibly gifted Dante who writes incredible micro poetry on his blog, Original-Dante. Thinking my poetry would definitely err on the macro side we decided to do a collaboration and use the same title to inspire two different poems and so here is my offering: THOUGHTS FROM THE BLENDER i gaze into the mirror and the person staring back at me is not you i cast my eyes across to your face [...]

Poem: Sitting on the edge of the tub

SITTING ON THE EDGE OF THE TUB - by brett "Fish" anderson   sitting here perched on the edge of this hot tub half in, half out struggling to rationalise my body's capability with the extreme temperature that is bubbling back at me but i've been here for a while and this water sure ain't getting any cooler am i getting any braver? and will i finally slide all the way in?   hold that [...]

NaPoWriMo: Day 11 – Sapphics

[Our prompt for today departs from such concerns, however. Today, rather than being casual, I challenge you to get rather classically formal, and compose a poem in Sapphics. These are quatrains whose first three lines have eleven syllables, and the fourth, just five. There is also a very strict meter that alternates trochees (a two-syllable foot, with the first syllable stressed, and the second unstressed) and dactyls (a three-syllable foot, with the first syllable stressed [...]

By |2015-04-14T08:58:20+02:00April 14th, 2015|poems and other creativity|0 Comments

NaPoWriMo: Day 10 – Abecedarian

[And now for today’s prompt: Today I challenge you to write an abecedarian poem – a poem with a structure derived from the alphabet. There are a couple of ways of doing this. You could write a poem of 26 words, in which each word begins with a successive letter of the alphabet. You could write a poem of 26 lines, where each line begins with a successive letter.] Making sense of the letters in [...]

By |2015-04-12T14:43:10+02:00April 12th, 2015|poems and other creativity|0 Comments

NaPoWriMo: Day 9 – Calligram

[Our prompt for the day (optional, as always) plays of our resources. Today, I challenge you to write a visual poem. If that’s not specific enough, perhaps you can try your hand at a calligram? That’s a poem or other text in which the words are arranged into a specific shape or image.] Waterless a drop of water might seem to be inconsequential but in these times of incessant drought even one single solitary drop [...]

By |2015-04-11T09:44:13+02:00April 11th, 2015|poems and other creativity|0 Comments
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