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NaPoWriMo 19: Dating the Deep
COLOSSUS SEEKS KRAKEN Yesterday’s prompt was to write a poem in the form of a personal ad (from NaPoWriMo) or to write about a particular...
Apr 20, 20131 min read
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NaPoWriMo 18: Me or Him, Even
Even? A really quick one today, from both Jo Bell’s prompt (write about something you feel guilty for) and the NaPoWriMo prompt, to start...
Apr 18, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 17: Google Search Suggestions on the Day of Thatcher’s Funeral
Indeed she is not. At least we all have death in common though, eh? Off-prompt today, but will be writing a Blessing (after Jo Bell’s...
Apr 17, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 16: Apple ’til Blackened Lager
Look! Blackened Lager is an actual thing! This was really good fun: the prompt today was to find a poem in a language other than English...
Apr 16, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 16: Emancipation on Briggate
Fortunately, the wheelie bin I saw on the move this morning off Briggate was not air-borne (just ground-borne – can something be...
Apr 16, 20131 min read
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NaPoWriMo 15: Transaction on a Spring Day – A Pantum
The OWL (Observation Wheel Leeds) at night – which is the ‘great revolving wheel’ in the poem… Today’s prompt: a Malay verse-form “of...
Apr 15, 20131 min read
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NaPoWriMo 14: I AM ANTI-BOTNET
An infographic of how a Botnet works…I’d like to see an infographic of my ANTI-BOTNET. Anyone? Tasked with creating a ‘persona poem’...
Apr 15, 20131 min read
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NaPoWriMo 12: Want/Need
A magick key (for an inadvertently key-shaped poem) A quick one this: I don’t often get slushy and when I do, it tends to be short! And...
Apr 15, 20131 min read
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NaPoWriMo 13: Windowless Walls
Bagel Nash, which was once the News Theatre, by Leeds Station I continue to run at a poetical-deficit, but will catch up soon (12 and 14...
Apr 15, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 13: Images of Invisible Cinema walking tour around Leeds city centre
A poem based on this walk will follow later, but here are some pictures for now… #photography #walking #cinema #urbanarchaeology...
Apr 14, 20131 min read
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NaPoWriMo 11: Double-Duvet Mecca
A pair of washers at a washeteria Day 11’s prompt was to write a Tanka (five-line stanzas with 5-7-5-7-7 syllables) – so I’ve used the...
Apr 13, 20131 min read
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NaPoWriMo 10: Un-love Poem for Call-Centre Conversations
The battery-farming of conversation, in the form of a call centre. Day 10’s prompt was to write a poem of un-love; not a malediction, so...
Apr 12, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 9: “I’m the plot, babe, and don’t you forget it”
Smoky big-haired replicant femme-fatale from the future! Still catching up, so here’s my Noir poem for day 9. I actually found an IMDB...
Apr 12, 20131 min read
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NaPoWriMo 7: The Pies of Awareness
The Pies of Awareness may or may not come from Gregg’s (who feature, by the way, as a Classical Allusion in another poem of mine by a...
Apr 9, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 6: A Valediction for Cleanliness
Not a picture of me – this was relatively clean for the Wolf Run… Taken a moment out from the meditation and practice retreat I’m on...
Apr 9, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo – wonderful John Donne valedictions
On my way to do a 10k run with obstacles this morning – and being energised by metaphysical poetry! Though no doubt the Power of Poetry...
Apr 7, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 5: Unprompted Art Poetry
Paul Jenkins’ ‘Phenomena Secret Cargo’ – but not as we saw it in the gallery…Which is right? Day 6 of NaPoWriMo – I’m still brewing a...
Apr 6, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 4: Breath or, Inspiration / Exhalation
An Iain M. Banks Style Spaceship A curious task today: make something using the names of spaceships from Iain M. Banks sci-fi books. It...
Apr 4, 20131 min read
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NaPoWriMo 3: A Sea Shanty for Failed Urban Development
Prompt no. 3 of NaPoWriMo was to write a sea shanty. This pleased me greatly as I’m a part of (when I can make it!) the Ocean Loiners – a...
Apr 4, 20132 min read
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NaPoWriMo 2: Lies, All Lies
Eliot – who never had twin daughters…Or did he? (No, he didn’t). Onward with NaPoWriMo catch-up – now at 66.66% catch-up. We’re entering...
Apr 3, 20132 min read
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