Poetry

Earthquakes and poetry

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I keep a regular track of the visitors to the series of weblogs which I host using sitemeter. This helps me to see how many visitors are looking at the site, how they get there, and a rough idea of where they are located. Yesterday someone did a search on MSN Search looking for ‘poems … Read more

bright by echo of bright recall

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bright by echo of bright recallthere is nothing more only the neatness brought about when we tidy as we go alongturning everything into some sort of song then there is the won mind-setno idea why! then there was the loss of a consonant in a cleversmug sort of whatever and finally we let it all … Read more

The words begin

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The words begin Like something that slips down the page – not sure And an imagethat is all that poetry issomething that we can picture in our mind like the arrival of godat a party when he hasn’t been invitedand the host is busy pouring drinksnobody knows the way to speak so the first person … Read more

Escaping writer’s block

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New wordsNew creationsNew intimations of creativity Old spaces Seen before spoken Somewhere we have been beforeLaw taken overWondering whether there is more in the dustSpecks that have recoveredSpeeches that have been replayed Once the lines have openedThere is not much left to the sands of timelinessSuch as the scan of a mission best replayed

taking words apart

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TakingOpening all outSplitting a cloud like candy flossBreaking air apartAn atom-smasherBlaster. Other wordsPretendBut do not understand the flowThrough all connectionsNo rejectionsNo sorry. Not partNot apartNot even one strong sense of innocenceWould be enoughTo split sidesMake asidesNot see. Even whenThe words are spentThe spoken sounds are louder than the heardThe things I sayAre not the sameAs … Read more

That poetry reading

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I mentioned recently that I was due to give a reading at our local poetry group on the first Thursday in July. There were about 60 people gathered for the evening. It was the same day as the bombings in London, so there was an air of sadness and shock hanging over the audience. Earlier … Read more

Mike Snider cleans his closet!

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Mike Snider’s Formal Blog and Sonnetarium The link above takes you to Mike Snider’s Formal Blog and Sonnetarium, a place I visit regularly to read his comments, poems etc. It seems that Mike has been doing a little late spring cleaning, and come across some poetry booklets which I sent him a while back. I … Read more

A poem to Desmond Swords

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A few days ago someone posted a poem as a comment to this post . I say, someone, because I followed the link to their own blogger profile and found a host of names and aliases. I think he is Desmond Swords – but not for certain! He is also Scalljah, Sloppy Bob, and Jan … Read more