Somnambulate
Come somnambulate with me
Through silver-touched night gardens
Where the oil-black stream slips slowly by
And poppies nod by winding paths
Slow night-dark heads in off-beat time.
Articulations
Articulations: Examples of my creative writing: aphorisms, poems, short stories, humour (“humour”), (auto)biography, translations and more. Read Articulating myself for more details or scroll down.
Mother’s memories – interviewing Mum about her life
Mother’s memories – I’ve started interviewing my mother about her life. She’s been through a lot in her ninety-plus years.
Can’t sleep
Can’t sleep – a poem of despair! And the sound of the peal of bells in Holcot village church, Northamptonshire. Can’t someone switch them off at night?
The pleasures of a morning swim
There’s something glorious about swimming, especially when you’re not in competition and when you have a blessedly free sauna to relax in afterwards.
Resolutions
Resolutions: a parody of the twisted information about the history of Janus and New Year Resolutions available from various Internet sites.
Dark and Sleet – two haiku and a discussion
Dark and sleet – a picture postcard illustrating a couple of seasonally descriptive haiku written recently and previously published on Twitter.
The Squamous Dermisaurus
Comic poem featuring imaginary dinosaurs written in response to “Epidermis” as Word of the Day on the Artwiculate word-game. Illustration made in Photoshop.
Ten Letters for swimmers – swimming the alphabet
Ten letters for swimmers. Iin a public swimmingpool swimmers tend to swim lengths as if they are cutting letters into the water.
An Oddly Haunted Cinquain
A poem in cinquain form using words from the Oddly Haunted Journey word game.
This Mirrored Chamber
tep into this mirrored chamber, see your image promulgate, Looking deep you’ll see a spark: your yester-self – but wait! There too’s your Armageddon ember. I composed this poem in response to three challenges: the Artwiculate word of the day on 5th October 2011 was Promulgate. The word of the day on Loqwacious was Yester. … More…