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NaPoWriMo 4.11: Looking Through the Patio Doors at Dusk, April 2016
“In a terracotta pot, day-/glo plastic pegs cling to the edge…” I liked the NaPoWriMo prompt today – the idea of the last, abstracted...
Apr 11, 20161 min read
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NaPoWriMo 4.10: Catatumbo Lightning
“for a moment it is there” Day Eleven! I’m still operating on the idea that any of these I really like and want to take on, may be...
Apr 11, 20161 min read
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NaPoWriMo 4.8: Operation
The skill game where you’re the doctor! A tritina, from yesterday’s prompt, and without an introduction… **NB Taken this one down as I...
Apr 8, 20161 min read
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NaPoWriMo 4.7: Product Recall
SEND IT BACK Catch up Friday (and because writing is more fun that other things I should probably be doing). A quickly-written but...
Apr 8, 20161 min read
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NaPoWriMo 4.6: Model
Yup, this is me after my haircut. (NB – OBVIOUSLY IT’S NOT, from my ‘hair model’ Google, it’s apparently the alarmingly-pristine and...
Apr 7, 20162 min read
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NaPoWriMo 4.5: Poemola
“hook yourself up to this black machine…” Catching up and got rather caught up on this one… There’s an element of the Concrete about it,...
Apr 6, 20161 min read
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NaPoWriMo 4.4: Dogship
A delightful ‘Dogship’ from this website – I don’t know what they do (because I can’t read it), but presumably it relates to dog care,...
Apr 5, 20162 min read
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NaPoWriMo 4.3: You Can’t Look
“Let us get ourselves a pet…” My, it’s getting late. Which might be why day three turned out quite so peculiarly (sorry not sorry)....
Apr 3, 20161 min read
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NaPoWriMo 4.2: Anything You Do Say
“It said it was from IKEA…” (And this picture is from there). Day two for NaPoWriMo, and something I started yesterday. I looked through...
Apr 3, 20161 min read
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NaPoWriMo 4.1 – The Crumb Museum
“A bright seed…” It’s April – and that means National Poetry Writing Month…And I’ve decided to really commit again this year. I’ll be...
Apr 2, 20161 min read
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Write Off (Spring)
A quick note to say my Write Off sessions will be starting again on Tuesday 1st March. The sessions are open to all young people from 15...
Feb 26, 20161 min read
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NaPoWriMo 2015.6: Allegiance
Folly Footbridge – as mentioned in my ‘aubade’ (morning poem). Image googled, from www.kennet-avon-canal.co.uk NaPoWriMo catch-up…and...
Apr 9, 20151 min read
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NaPoWriMo 2015.5: A Plank In Reason
A Plank In Reason? Playing catch-up today (when I should be doing other things, of course), with my Emily Dickinson-inspired poem. Here...
Apr 8, 20151 min read
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NaPoWriMo 2015.4: Creag Iolaire
One of the scenes I remember from the day in 1997 when Diana’s death was reported. Didn’t fancy the love/un-love prompt today, so had a...
Apr 4, 20151 min read
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NaPoWriMo 2015.3: My Fellow Ministers
My Fellow Ministers? Day three’s poem, which I didn’t get around to yesterday…I’ve had a go at a sort of mixed-metaphor vaguely-political...
Apr 4, 20151 min read
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NaPoWriMo 2015.2: Cancer
Stones at Barry Island Beach At a beach today, on the birthday of a friend no longer with us – so the stars/constellations prompt was...
Apr 2, 20151 min read
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NaPoWriMo 2.30: try
lizard fish bird mammal shrimp brain innit Here’s something for the last day which – (YES I CHEATED but I had nothin’ left for April, ya...
May 6, 20141 min read
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NaPoWriMo 2.29: Conviction
Twisty Tim Burton Trees… Yes, I know I’m nearly a week late – but I really haven’t had the chance up to know to be a Completist and put...
May 6, 20141 min read
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2.28: Big Deal
The Sloth: A Big Deal (for real) Here’s my news story-based poem (using pretty much just words from the article itself). The story was...
Apr 28, 20141 min read
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NaPoWriMo 2.27: Opportunity
“The shelves around his office are full of shiny awards, shrivelled words. “ Number twenty-seven and off-prompt. Something inspired by a...
Apr 28, 20141 min read
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