Tag Archives: Poetry

Posts about or presenting poetry

What’s in a Storm?

What’s in a storm?

Well obviously wind and rain

What’s in a house?

Well obviously not a storm

Not wind and rain
But
There is me
In the house
Looking at the storm

What’s in a storm?

As I look out
A woman walking her dogs
All wrapped up in plastic
The dogs wrapped up in fur
And loving it
The dogs are loving the storm

Who else?

Well, the bin men

Not loving it
They are getting wet
And the rubbish is blowing about
In the wind
Which is blowing them about
Too

And I went out too
To put my bin out
And I got wet too

Storms are there
To remind us
That out there
Outside our house
Are forces beyond our control
Which are there
To remind us
To take care of
The people and things
We love
Indoors

For Storm Floris

Post Factual

I’m just in the process of bringing some fiction writing to the site. It is partly started, I have a few episodes of a fictive theme on global warming and how to have a response by writing fiction about it and not going mad with fear or despair.

It developed a block, and I unblocked it last week, interestingly, about the time I committed to writing a poem or a post a day. Funny that! It will appear sometime soon as posts and I like the idea that it will be shared as posts and it will work in a post-factual way. We don’t have to get stuck in ‘facts’ but we may see what may follow after the fact, in fiction.

Anyway…

I found this below on Tumblr. It should link to the site.

No idea what ‘Periodic rent-lowering-gunshots:’ means. Maybe inform me.

But this just gets to what the power of fiction, especially fiction you write yourself FanFic, Pomes, stories, whatever.

This could be a bit like an arts/writing/reading manifesto.

I chose the picture ‘cos I like that you can close the book and the writing is still there, but in a closed book. I think that just as online life for many people took off, Harry Potter came out as a book. People found they could close the book, and the writing is still there, but in a closed book, but they cannot close off social media.

It controls sensory overload.

#dvolvd

If Art

If art was your companion

What would it say

About your art?

 

“Easy tiger, with that one!”

“What the f**£ is that all about.”

“That is the best you’ve done in ages mate. Great job.”

“Says it all really. Outstanding.”

 

But it is not that sort of companion.

It would be great if it was.

A kind of kind critic, 

Joking but choking at how bad it is

Or a gently egging you on 

Saying what they see

Before anybody else sees it

“About that figure in the foreground….”

 

However

As a companion 

It has a life of it’s own 

It turns up dressed up ready to go

From somewhere

You are not exactly sure

Where it resides but

There it is

At your door

 

You asked it to go out

Into the world with you

You made it

But it has a mind and life of it’s own

And you wonder

What is it going to do

Like an imaginary friend

Made real

And now alive

And by your side

 

What have you done?

Who’s Done This Before?

.

Who’s done this before?

Not me

At least not like this

At this time

In this place

As a here and now it is here and now

Me writing it

You reading it

Two different things

Both here and now

.

Who’s done this before?

I have

It is restored

I have taken words

Heard and then

Stored them in my head

And restored them

Resorted

On this page

To be stored in your head

.

Who’s done this before?

You have

You reader you

You repeated

What you heard

Stored in your head

Resorted

Repeated in the air

Words spoken you speaker you

And stored in the listeners head

.

Nothing is original

In this

But

Word order

Resorted

And

Restored

.

We’ve all done this before.