I ... entered the poem of life, whose purpose is ... simply to witness the beauties of the world, to discover the many forms that love can take. (Barabara Blackman in 'Glass After Glass')

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Showing posts with label Sunday lime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sunday lime. Show all posts

5 July 2015

Versification Unsublime

Pain defeats poetry;
I resort to mere verse.
My back in spasm
demands full attention.

Doggerel or worse
is my best. The orgasm
of lyrical beauty eludes me,
as does invention.

Yet, may this exercise in rhyme
(called bref doublé)
rate some mention

if only as a weird phantasm
in the annals of poetic divers-
ity.


A 55-word piece for 'imaginary garden with real toads'. Also my Day One offering in the facebook poetry chain for which I was just nominated. And, finally, linking to Gillena's 'Sunday Lime'.

14 June 2015

Winter Sunday

the day of rest
I stay in dressing-gown
all day, reading

phone unplugged
doors locked, screen door snibbed
home is my castle

night settling down
favourite shows on telly
my old cat snuggling














For Sunday lime at Gillena's 'Lunch Break' blog