Category Archives: Poetry and Lyrics

Haiku for a Monday, Late September

daily and daily •
hours spin us round and round •
and dizzy, we spin. Continue reading →

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What do you want?

Here’s what Robert Bly wanted one day, via The Writer’s Almanac What is it that I want? Not money, Not a large desk, not a house with ten rooms. This is what I want to do: to sit here, To … Continue reading →

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Ink of different kinds.

Last night, because I had nothing better to do, I found my various fountain pens including the wonderful and purple Cross. Continue reading →

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Re-visiting and editing

At lunch there was no internet, so after I finished my sandwich I popped up the 2012 NaPoWriMo poems and made an edit file of the month of poems. Started reading and they made me smile. I am making some … Continue reading →

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September 11, 2015

That’s always the contrast isn’t it, what had been normal and this instant where the world becomes something else, something unknown until now. Something perhaps unimaginable but now sitting quite real in the world, alongside us. Continue reading →

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