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One Stop Poetry – Monday form – Octains

Posted on May 16, 2011 by SallyJ

This has every element that I struggle with – meter, rhyme, the works. I really like the form when I read other people’s poems. I take on board Luke Prater’s, (the inventor of the Octain), words that it is challenging and … Continue reading →

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More poetic prose than poetry!

Posted on May 15, 2011 by SallyJ

This is not a poem really – much more like prose, but this is the way it came to me when I looked at this picture. Thank you Fee for the great prompts, and One Stop Poetry.com for giving me … Continue reading →

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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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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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Aspirations of armadillos

Posted on April 8, 2011 by SallyJ

I just listened to Elizabeth Bishop reading her poem ‘The Armadillo’ at http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15214. and it made me yearn to write good poetry. Her words are natural, her images not overdone, the rhythm gentle, unforced and the rhyme present in the background, … Continue reading →

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Anapestically Over Exposed

Posted on April 4, 2011 by SallyJ

I know I need to be more disciplined in my poetry – take more time to refine and hone what I write. I must also stop dodging the issue of metre and the self talk that has led me to … Continue reading →

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Untitled poem

Posted on April 1, 2011 by SallyJ

We lurch from paucity to plenty; from ahimsa to inhumane; great charity to brutality; our world – so full of strife and pain swings, in wide and outspread arc and yet its balance can maintain and not stumble in time … Continue reading →

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Take a repetitive task…

Posted on March 31, 2011 by SallyJ

This week’s exercise for one of the writing groups I attend is to take a repetitive but rhythmic task and make it into poetry…my list of repetitive tasks so far is less than inspiring: hoovering the floor mowing the lawn, … Continue reading →

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