Truth
Paul, can you here me Paul? Yes, I can hear you. Sing for us Paul. A voice cut through the border and plunged under grinding wastes of water in an armoured copper cable to sing in London where people sat cosily jumbled. His craft spoke of the raging moon that hung over men swaying […]
Being guided
Why do I talk to you as if we were old friends? I excuse your silence. Hello! So there you are. I chirp at your advice to Do a U-turn whenever possible. You’re destination is straight ahead. I smile at your mistakes. Why do I forgive you as friends do all the time?
Breakdown
Breakdown “Well, what’yer waiting for?” he snarls. “Get out and push!” She leaps out of the car without opening the door. “Push it yourself, right up your arse!” He grips the wheel, stalled, seething. Her skin-tight jeans stalk away up the deserted forest track. Minutes later he roars past her, revving, one finger raised aloft. […]
Bad Contact
The doorbell rings; there’s no one there. It’s happened once before and logic says the wifi is confused, wavelengths misused by neighbours. The doorbell rings; there’s no one there. In some secluded attic an Al-Quaida operative is tapping out Morse Code and MI5 will soon burst in, remove me screaming for extreme rendition. The doorbell […]
DISCOVERING THE MEANING OF BRYN TERFEL
Okay, so this wasn’t written to today’s prompt but to this week’s 52 prompt, but I have been working on it today. I will do better in future… I hope. Discovering the meaning of Bryn Terfel If I could leap aboard a crotchet, say, in its form of squiggly sound wave I’d be taking a fast canal trip […]
Another haiku
I’m off to Ilkley for a workshop and a reading today. Maybe I’ll write a poem there. If not, here’s another haiku to be going on with. [line] [lineate]Are you a machine?[/lineate] [lineate indent=1]Sorry, that doesn’t compute.[/lineate] [lineate indent=2]Then start eating fish.[/lineate] [line]
Day 5
Machines can be graceful. Here’s the late Michael Donaghy. http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=151 Machines in our lives. .