Tag: poetry
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31 Days Guest Post by Fiona Melrose: Poetry performed Alchemy on My Prose
One of the wonderful things about my 31 days of blogging on mental and creative resilience is how I have made the acquaintance of new and interesting people who are finding ways to enhance their own creativity and are trying new things. One of these people is Fiona Melrose. She told me how attending a…
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31 Days: Finding Wordfire
This series of articles running through January will explore ways of keeping our head above water in physical, mental, emotional and creative areas. There will be creative challenges, competitions and giveaways. For the full background see here. A busy day today so I have just time for a flying post. I saw a link this…
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If we thought that love was gone
by Alison Wells (1991) i If we thought that love was gone that out of sweetness none remained why should we catch the balmy air its warm and laden music strained upon a wise and falling light the evening coming home to rest the wide relentless sky still bright like a heart stretched taut with…
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Poetry – Summer
Restless blood thumping Sin spinning in the thick river Hot flesh Neck dips slip sacred hollows Smooth slices honeyed shoulders Teeth and lips sinking plum juice The dark interior Pulse points, black veins Liquid gold pouring On the shallow surface Skin buzzing with molecular nectar Crackle Winter embers from ash flare, flash Incinerated self-slivers sail…
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New Poem – Year of the Dog
Year of the Dog Will you make a place for me at the end of your bed? I will lie Against the shape of long toes in the crook of your limbs waiting guarding the morning against the night holding your dreams in my mouth spilled against the counterpane but you are warm and your…
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