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April 8, 2015
Tandem Post: Meeting The Queen
Two steps forward and then one to the right. I stand and wait, watching… guarding… carefully listening to my own heavy breathing… I try to remain focused completely on the spaces around me, watching for you, zoning out of the chatter and in on any nearby movement that may be about to occur. This time you […]
Poetry with Erik with a K: Lonely Cloud
So sometimes when i’m not myself i become this guy Brad Fish who has a whole series of videos warning people about Dangerous Things You Can Least Expect [DTYCLE] which were either funny or not, depending on whether you found them funny or not. And then today, i discovered that sometimes when i’m not Brad Fish, […]
April 7, 2015
NaPoWriMo: Day 7 – Money
[And now our prompt: keeping to the theme of poetry’s value, Wallace Stevens famously wrote that “money is a kind of poetry.” So today, I challenge you to write about money! It could be about not having enough, having too much (a nice kind of problem to have), the smell, or feel, or sensory aspects […]
One person who gives me hope in South Africa is: Patrick Nel [c/o Alexa Matthews]
It’s Good Friday. I am sitting in a coffee shop. In Manenberg. A community that is often perceived as hopeless, as a being a part of the cycle of violence and structures and things that will not change. Yet, as I sit in this coffee shop hope prevails. Part of the reason for this is […]
NaPoWriMo: Day 6 – Aubade
[Today’s prompt springs from the form known as the aubade. These are morning poems, about dawn and daybreak. Many aubades take the form of lovers’ morning farewells.] Just For A Second as i stumble out of bed, you are nowhere to be found i had hoped that you would be waiting for me but no, yet […]
April 6, 2015
NaPoWriMo: Day 5 – Emily Dickinson
[National Poetry Writing Month – composing a poem a day based on a prompt – Find an Emily Dickinson poem – preferably one you’ve never previously read – and take out all the dashes and line breaks. Make it just one big block of prose. Now, rebreak the lines. Add words where you want. Take […]
April 5, 2015
Lay your phone on me…
On friday nite we had some mates around for a meal and some in depth conversation. The picture above is not a group selfie but rather a close-up of the phone basket that was my wife’s idea. We emailed everyone beforehand to let them know, and as they arrived at the party we held out […]
NaPoWriMo: Day 4 – Love
[And now for today’s prompt. Love poems are a staple of the poetry scene. But because so many love poems have been written, there are lots of clichés. Fill your poems with robins and hearts and flowers, and you’ll sound more like a greeting card than a bard. So today, I challenge you to write a […]
NaPoWriMo: Day 3 – Love
[And now for today’s prompt. Love poems are a staple of the poetry scene. But because so many love poems have been written, there are lots of clichés. Fill your poems with robins and hearts and flowers, and you’ll sound more like a greeting card than a bard. So today, I challenge you to write a […]
April 4, 2015
NaPoWriMo: Day 3 – catchup: Fourteener
And now, for our optional prompt! Today I challenge you to write a fourteener. Fourteeners can be have any number of lines, but each line should have fourteen syllables. Given the day, i decided to go for an Eastery theme: Easter, in fourteen beats An air of doom and gloom has descended upon the earth […]
