Category Archives: poetry

Rhyming, double dactyls and now pantoums.

Posted on May 14, 2011 by SallyJ

This week has seen me chopping and changing between different forms of poetry. On Monday at One Stop Poetry Gay Cannon had us looking at and trying rhyme schemes. I posted English Seaside (https://sallyjblackmore.co.uk/2011/05/09/playing-with-rhyme/). I had some great feedback, as … Continue reading →

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Soldier – the short listed poem

Posted on May 6, 2011 by SallyJ

This is the poem that was short listed for the Fish competition. I wrote it after I realised that when I saw D in his uniform, amongst a load of others similarly dressed, I couldn’t pick him out from the … Continue reading →

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Cityscape

Posted on May 4, 2011 by SallyJ

Feeling jaded today and this poem reflects my mood. I have posted it on One Shot Wednesday – thank goodness One Stop Poetry keeps me grinding along. Cityscape Architectural hubris, Thrusting concrete and glass Dwarfing the merely human to Wander … Continue reading →

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Another poem, inspired by a Rosa Frei photo

Posted on May 3, 2011 by SallyJ

In this sand I see  the world, pattern too large to comprehend, too small to understand, each grain unwittingly playing its part. In this sand I see the world, spilt blood absorbed, often unremarked, storms whipped up to cloud the … Continue reading →

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Revision of The Doe

Posted on April 29, 2011 by SallyJ

Following some really helpful comments on this poem when I posted it for One Shot Wednesday, I have slightly revised it. I would love to hear whether I have improved it, made it worse or just not made any discernible … Continue reading →

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One Shot Wednesday

Posted on April 27, 2011 by SallyJ

This is a work in progress and I would appreciate any comments that will help me knock it in to shape so I am posting it for One-Shot Wednesday. No horizon, Low clouds meld With stricken meadow, Distant silver birch, … Continue reading →

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Holding my breath!

Posted on April 26, 2011 by SallyJ

I am flabbergasted – one of my poems has now reached the short list for the Fish Poetry prize. This is startling news and I have to keep pinching myself. Just to reach the last 20 something poems out of thirteen … Continue reading →

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Inspiration – at last

Posted on April 18, 2011 by SallyJ

This is my first post for two days, but I did manage three poems, ‘Love Eternal’,  ‘Isabella and Irena Wianiawski – eternally waiting in Surrey’ and ‘The Wall’. The latter was in response to a great photo prompt on One … Continue reading →

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The Necropolis

Posted on April 14, 2011 by SallyJ

Where does Dennis Wheatley rub shoulders with the writer and illustrator of the Rupert Bear cartoon, or with John Singer Sargeant? Where do hanged women murderers – or suspected murderers – lie side by side with Ladies of the Realm; … Continue reading →

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Missed one

Posted on April 12, 2011 by SallyJ

Oh dear – missed an entry on the blog and with the NaPoWriMo…just not enough hours in the day , also the sun is much too beguiling. The temptation is to sit in it because it is there and in … Continue reading →

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