She Wolf

Hi, the poem has been published in Spillwords see link below ❤️

Sunday Muse

Hi, Carrie has given us some wonderful images again, https://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2023/05/sunday-muse-259.html?lr=1, but it is with a sense of sadness, as she has revealed next week will be the final Sunday Muse 😔 Still on the positive we have another week to go, so here is my poem ‘Free Bird’

Happy May Day

Happy May Day! Throughout the decades, there have been different festivities and representations of May Day, seasonal change has been the most significant one across countries. “The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.”–  Edwin Way Teale May Day is one of the four ancient Celtic cross-quarter days, an astronomical holiday

W3

Hi, this week on David’s W3, we have a new POW and it’s David himself 🙌 https://skepticskaddish.com/2023/04/26/w3-prompt-52-weave-written-weekly/ David asks us to write a poem of at least six lines that’s heavy on consonance or assonance, or both, I plumped for assonance (the repetition of similar vowel sounds), with my verse ‘Staying Brave’. It’s also poem

Sunday Muse

Hi, this weekend Carrie has spiced things up with a selection of musicians that are also poets, such a hard decision of who to pick it ended up being between John Lennon and Joni Mitchell….Joni won. I decided to do something a bit different too, I have taken Joni’s lyrics and looked for a found

#WritePhoto & Scavenger

Hi, with Easter just around the corner KL has given us the interesting photo above of an egg on the sand https://new2writing.wordpress.com/2023/04/06/writephoto-egg/ for our inspiration today. Also this my fourth poem for Val’s scavenger hunt https://murisopsis.wordpress.com/2023/03/31/looking-at-nonce-forms-for-npm/ This time I have chosen the Silver Shovel by Monty Vern, (a variation of the Golden Shovel) where you

W3

Hi, in David’s Weave Weekly we learn that Kerfe has been selected as POW with the fantastic poem ‘Of Eden, or: Paradise Lost’ , https://skepticskaddish.com/2023/03/29/w3-prompt-48-weave-written-weekly/ The prompt guidance given is to follow Emily Dickinson and her famous poem “Hope” is the thing with feathers’, (see the poem below), therefore we start our own poem with

What do you see?

Hi, this week Sadje has given us the very atmospheric image above depicting menacing clouds refracting the setting sun, Thanks for looking 🙂

Prompt of the Week

Hi, for this weeks prompt, ‘Ravishing Red’ – Lady Jabberwocky invites us to write a poem or a story that includes the colour ‘Red’ . https://ladyjabberwocky.com/2023/03/13/prompt-of-the-week-ravishing-red/ I immediately thought of Marylin Munroe, who sadly left this world far too quickly. Below my short poem you can find one of hers, thanks for looking 💋 Although

Artistic Found Poetry

I have started a project early days as only 3 pages completed! I was inspired by the late Tom Phillips, who was an artist, alongside many other creative endeavours including ornamental forms of writing such as concrete poetry. His artistic book ‘A Humument’ (see page 12 above) was a work in progress from 1966 when