Red ink – a succinct reply To spidery thoughts All now lost in time
Category Archives: Poetry
Poetry Evening – Hull University. 18/08/17
The usual suspects from the English Department
Assemble, Levitically, as romantic as Monday morning.
Let life be a game! Gustav Meyrink and Covid
Let out your creativity to fight covid blues.
Old Age – Taken apart by Goethe
The greatest lines can be an inspiration to writers and get the block out the way.
Grandad smokes pot. Shuffling words for lost men.
Grandad smokes pot – three words, but how much information do they impart? I found seven meanings to ponder: a man who is old has children who have children he smokes forbidden substances Here’s my memory of my father’s step-father. He should have smoked pot, when crippled with arthritis, after a life of work, tooContinue reading “Grandad smokes pot. Shuffling words for lost men.”
Stuck for a Christmas Present? – Think Hull!
I’ve waited until panic is setting in, before offering people from Hull and the East Riding the perfect Christmas present. The lucky receiver definitely won’t have it already, nor will be they be given it by anyone else.
Full colour illustrations of our beautiful city.
A bit of nature – Haiku
Nature can excite the Haiku pen and be an inspiration.
The Trouser Role
It’s great fun to write sonnets according to Shakespeare’s rules. AB AB, CD CD, EF EF, GG
10 syllables to the line with a turning point after line 12.
Try it for a brain workout.
Many are disgusted by Strauss’s opening. A woman plays a lad making love to his cousin, and the lesbian interpretation has to surface.
What is art?
Not all art is pretty, but it can be very effective.
Haiku fun.
Mindfulness and Haikus, bring consciousness to a new high. Try it!
