If this short poem stretches - by
If this short poem stretches beyond
/ its first line, then already, already,
/ it has failed, become something else,
/ something its author did not…
writing poetry
‘Poems never written down…’ - by
Poems never written down
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/ pebbles in the ocean’s throat
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/ Lagavulin’s tawny shine
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/ claret’s memories of oak
/
/ that never took to shingle beach
/
/ or saw its…
Poets need not - by
Inspiration? Bell rings, penny drops, / the light-bulb goes on and tops / the not-good-enough idea that went before?…
Poetry - by
I am a cow named Poetry,
/ I give a little milk,
/ usually 2.5% fat,
/ sometimes I manage
/ to squeeze out 3%,
/ I’m proud…
Wisdom and Follies Haikus - by
Books – thousands – on shelves –
/ Wisdom of ages.
/ Folly if not in me
/
/ When two words do
/ for ten, then there is
/ the…
Attic - by
My head bowed under the rafters
/ I make a start in the attic’s advantage,
/ the lowered lamp, a cushion
/ deleting…
A Sonnet upon Sonnets - by
Fourteen, a sonneteer thy praises sings;
/ What magic myst’ries in that number lie!
/ Your hen hath fourteen eggs beneath her…
5.4 To Mount Victoria - by
Late autumn’s good up around
/ The neighbourhood mountain’s misty flank in the morning
/ When the piss-trail of the morning promenade’s fresh
/ And even…