joanie

For the Flash Poetry challenge 

For the challenge in Flash Poetry 

My response to the challenge in Flash Poetry 

As requested by James... I wonder whether I have missed any 

For findy's challenge in Flash Poetry - Turquoise 

My 'Teeth' challenge on Flash Poetry. Not sure about this! 

At the last minute - my contribution to my Flash Challenge! The truth about a special birthday treat at Marcus Wareing's at the Berkeley. 

It's ages since I've posted anything in this group. Apologies!! 

For the Flash Poetry Challenge this week. 'Imprisonment' and 'Discovery' 

For the Flash Poetry Challenge. Take the first verse on its own, if you like, as it includes all the elements! 

For the Flash Poetry challenge this week. I hope it's not too obscure! Tell me if it is. 

For the 'item of clothing' challenge in Flash Poaetry. 

For the Flash Poetry challenge this week 

For the Flash Challenge 

Flash Poetry Week 37 Challenge 

For my challenge - week 36 in Flash Poetry. I never said that it had to be a recipe poem!! 

My SECOND attempt at the challenge in Flash Poetry 

My response to the challenge in Flash Poetry 

My alphabet poem 

Challenge of 'chocolate' in Flash Poetry - a swift response! 

Week 32 Challenge in Flash Poetry. My attempt at a 'Fib'! 

For the Flash Poetry Challenge - The passage of time 

Flash Poetry Challenge Week 30 

Flash Poetry Challenge 

Just a few thoughts........ 

A 'love' poem for Poetry Seminar 

A haibun for the Flash poetry challenge 

It's just SO dark! .... and worse to come! 

For the Flash Poetry Challenge - 'Bank' 

For the Flash Poetry Challnege 

I haven't done a haiku for ages! 

...having seen Faye Dunaway on TV recently.... I wonder.. and I worry 

For the Flash Poetry challenge 

Family things!! 

For the Autumn challenge on Flash Poetry. I want to pick them but then I don't have the time to make blackberry jelly! 

For the Flash Poetry challenge. Not really a poem but I nearly missed the deadline! 

Temporary challenge in Flash Poetry! 

Harder work than working, but we had a great time! 

For the Challenge in 'Flash' 

Flash Challenge 13 

A VERY strange journey! I am posting EVERYTHING - and I'm not finished yet! 

Nothing in particular... 

Flash poetry challenge 

How many dance names can you spot? Corny, I know!! 

Flash Poetry 9 Challenge 

A propos of nothing at all! Honestly! 

I live a mile from the sea and take it for granted! 

My response 

Flash Poetry 2 

Say it as it is! 

I feel so awful - we have had jackdaws nesting in our chimney for the last three years and now we have decided to take action! They are sitting there, wondering why they can't get to their gorgeous nest, lined with down... but they have managed to remove the contraption which the builders put in place!! 

Very much a 'flash' - in between feeding the neighbour's cats and getting dinner! 

It's a while since I posted one of my 'Just a Minutes' which I do for local radio from time to time. It's very different from my usual WW stuff, but it's 'fit for purpose'! If you fancy hearing it read aloud, it's available on 'Listen again' on manxradio.com after next Thursday! 

Says it all, really! 

Some time ago, I suggested doing something in the style of Ogden Nash then promptly lost my meagre offering!! It has recently turned up in My Documents at work! Here it is for what it's worth; perhaps I could add to it. 

I can't believe that I wasn't ecstatic when the sun shone this afternoon! 

Scary weather this evening! 

It's been a long week.. 

Close to this mother's heart at the moment! 

Very self-indulgent.... I couldn't resist; we see her very rarely! Online photos are wonderful things. 

A genuine question! 

How beautiful was the air this evening? 

Perhaps it's just because I'm back at work... (Version II) - Cain and Kyle are VERY real!! 

Is it worth it? 

Just an observation - the cloud formations have been wonderful yet very strange these last few days. 

..........Surely, on holiday, we should be able to write beautiful poetry!!! I failed. 

....just 'watching' the Grand Prix. 

The exercise in Poetry Seminar - Frankenstein - revitalising an old poem 

Why bother spending ages getting the right flight times months in advance only to have BA cancel?! I have been trying to speak to someone for 30 minutes! Aaarggh! 

Only a few weeks ago, everything was fresh and green; there was promise in the air.... 

Another response to the 'Step outside' exercise in Poetry Seminar. 

Selfish gut reaction to something.... I might well delete in the light of day!  

Just a series of observations... 

Oh dear! I'm not sure where this came from! 

8.25pm - Just phenomenal! 

What a difference a bit of morning sunshine makes, even though it had clouded over by 11! 

So sorry.... yet another one which questions one's priorities. 

This started as a reposnse to the exercise in Poetry Seminar but I think it has taken a different route! 

It would take an age to tell you the story, but this one is keeping me awake at night. 

Come on! We've been working hard ALL week! Am I entitled to a bit of mindless TV?? 

I haven't been anywhere near the High Street yet! 

Observations last night. 

I'm not sure about this one. I just had to write something following a Friday the 13th visit to my lovely local castle! 

Poor thing!! 

This is formed from my contributions to the Renga in Poetry Seminar. 

I thought that I had better make a contribution to 'European Day of Languages'! Not sure about the title. 

It is very difficult! Bullying seems to be cut and dried - don't ever believe it! 

As ever, around about this time of year, I just wonder why! 

Just me being cynical. 

It's quite pleasant at the moment, doing what has to be done, enjoying a lunch break - a 'Training Day'! All Hell will break loose tomorrow. 

Feeling devoid of inspiration, looking out at the rain - it has just started. 

I wasn't totally sure how to deal with this so I have posted the original prose, taken from Sawday's 'Special Places to Stay: French Bed and Breakfast' plus the same text, lineated, and my own version. 

I'm away for a couple of weeks now. Just cleaning before I set off! 

I was unexpectedly moved while watching BBC's 'Trawlermen' this evening. I buy too many King-sized prawns! YET... it thrills me that fishing is the last remaining activity where Man still hunts! 

Very much a 'spur-of-the-moment' reaction to the exercise in Poetry Seminar. 

No comment!! 

Not sure why, really! 

A gob-smacking response to "Hiya Miss!" 

Close to my heart right now! 

The cinquain exercise in Poetry Seminar. I have a feeling that this might change! (The 2-4-6-8-2 version) 

In response to the exercise in Poetry Seminar 

a haiku 

A response to a) the exercise in Poetry Seminar and b) my situation at the moment at work!! Two birds, one stone. 

This parent/child thing gets harder! I am so useless at titles - any ideas? 

Suddenly everywhere is green. 

'News' excercise in Poetry Seminar. 

I'm tempted by Flash Poetry's challenge this week! 

The end of a LONG week! 

I'm a bit barren at the moment so this is something I can't remember writing, found while tidying 'My Documents'. 

My response to the 'Virelay' exercise in Poetry Seminar. 

...and it's almost May! 

This set out as the 'Contradictions' exercise in Poetry Seminar, but I think it lost its way! 

Our poor old telly died last week. Within a few hours, we miraculously got a 42 inch monster! Out of my hands..... 

A response to the exercise in Poetry Seminar, based on Radio 4's "The Last Picture Show". 

Today was just glorious; brilliant blue sky and a sea like you have never seen! (Cold, though!) 

Just working, typing away, and couldn't resist a very swift response to the view out of my window...... 

A quick response to the exercise in Poetry Seminar 

I am definitely going to take stock soon!! Suggestions for a title, please! 

First and Last exercise in Poetry Seminar 

Well!! Four short lines and it's taken me all week! (I've been busy) 

At last! Am I allowed to have the plural 'scales' as part of my rhyming 'thing' in the line with the radif? Nightmare = Poetry Seminar exercise! 

I'm not happy with the title but I'll wait for inspiration or suggestions!  

Sometimes they just take over! 

Confessional - my attempt. 

I hope I don't wake at 3am!! 

What a miserable day to be out on a wind-swept playing field! 

My response to the exercise in Poetry Seminar. 

I just want to curl up and go to sleep! 

Just thought I'd share one of my Christmas 'repertoire'! I have read this (well, almost acted it really) at a couple of Christmas concerts/Carol services recently. Like them or not, the rhyming ones do go down well! 

I just received a Christmas card from my uncle, well into his 80's, the last remaining brother of 13 children. He enclosed a photo of himself in Brisbane hospital, having been hit by a Kamikase bomber in the Philippines, during the war. It's funny how one is compelled to write something, whatever it is, at times! 

My excuse for not 'decorating' this year - (and having to take them all down again) - I'll look out of the window instead! 

My response to Part 3 of fevver's exercise on Poetry Seminar 

..because I know that it's not right. 

A response to fevvers' exercise on Poetry Seminar 

A reflection on looking out today; I am not very productive just now! 

Where have all the poets gone? I had to post something! 

I'm not sure how this came about - I have never been a smoker! Anyway, a terzanelle, finally. I have deliberately changed the repeated lines slightly. 

What a nightmare, but I can't resist! I'm not happy with it but I have to stop tweaking sometime! 

A response to the exercise(s) in Poetry Seminar. Fix your teeth in before you try to read it aloud! 

Feeling rather devoid of ideas at the moment and clutching at anything. 

Typing as my hair is blown by a very welcome breeze from an oscillating fan! 

A response to the exercise in Poetry Seminar 

Just wishing that, if you stayed up forever, tomorrow would never come! "To bed, to bed", said Sleepy Head; "Tarry awhile", said Slow. 

My attempt at a tritina, which we have just started to look at in Poetry Seminar. 

Nothing specific 

An attempt at L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E P=O=E=T=R=Y, being studied in Poetry Seminar. I have done exactly as suggested and produced something totally meaningless, I hope! ....or did I?? 

I have started the ball rolling! Any takers? 

No - it isn't a spelling mistake! It was prompted by the question posed in Lounge Forum - 'Do your bookshelves reflect your life?' Each line is a title from my shelves - completely unaltered - nothing added, nothing taken away!  

A haibun - I hope! From the exercise in Poetry Seminar. A first attempt. I decided to intersperse haiku, with a 3-5-3 pattern..... not sure why! 

Second version of the exercise in Poetry Seminar. An attempt at a haibun-style piece. I have kept the original triplets and added prose. 

My response to the exercise in Poetry Seminar. I used a few pages from Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse' and Colette's 'le blé en herbe'. 

The excitement is just unbelievable! I bet it's the first time Jeremy Clarkson's appeared in a haiku. 

I have just been to the hairdresser's.... and ...I have just read this to my husband, whose response was "That's not a poem!" Oh, dear! 

Just looking out of the window...... 

Just a thought as I enjoyed my starter! 

Not sure about this one - just a few thoughts, really. 

My SECOND attempt to respond to Robert Frost's 'Acquaintance with the night' 

What a lousy weekend - 50 hours of solid rain. A change of seasons today. 

Enjoying a night in, blatantly ignoring the ironing basket. 

....just occurred to me the other day... 

My attempt at the 20 point exercise in Poetry Seminar. 

A very late entry for the metre exercise in Poetry Seminar. I am just concerned that this metre will be common to too many poems, but I have tried to keep some of the 'feel' of it. See what you think! The rhyme scheme is the same. 

An exercise in Poetry Seminar 

A continuation of an exercise in Poetry Seminar - I took 'Belief's hot mud' and tried to make it into something more.  

VERY experimental! An exercise in Poetry Seminar 

A very quick exercise in Poetry Seminar. 

An exercise on Poetry Seminar. I couldn't resist keeping to the restriction of the number of letters. I have counted spaces as a letter. 

A haiku for soulmates everywhere! 

Yet another result of gazing at the apple tree outside the window, looking for inspiration! 

The sea was wild today! 

This is my first - NO! now my SECOND response to fevvers' exercise which we are doing in Poetry Seminar. I have changed the title.  

...just looking out at the horizon this morning and thinking ... 

My attempt! 

Like R-Poet, I just discovered that my limerick was read out on Christmas morning, Radio 4. Someone asked me this morning if it was me, and I didn't know! 

Don't you wish that you could just get on with it?! 

.....just enjoying a G & T 

A second attempt at magnetic poetry, which we are looking at in Poetry Seminar, using a different set of words. My first attempt is added at the end. 

a quickie 

A few days late, I'm afraid. Perhaps I'll save it for next year! 

I haven't done a haiku for a while 

...although it is a mill-pond just now 

Just a quickie 

An attempt ( I think!) at a response to Selima Hill's 'The World's Entire Wasp Population', which we have been studying in Poetry Seminar, 

a bit of fun really......because I love WW and what it has done for me. 

A VERY swift response to okkervil's comment on Roovacrag's 'Snow is Falling', when he said that the WW Gods act fast!! 

We have been looking at 'Snow' by Louis MacNeice this week in Poetry Seminar. This is my reponse. 

On gazing out while having a 'brew'! 

No apologies - if you don't understand it, you're lucky! 

My attempt 

When I was clearing out my parents' house after their deaths two years ago, I came across an envelope marked, 'Joan's poems (childhood)', which contained old sheets from an exercise book with various verses. This would have been written when I was about 8, I should think. I thought I would up-date it for a bit of fun! 

Finally, my terzanelle. Traumatic but very satisfying! 

I'm not quite sure what brought this one on! 

This is written as a response to Mark Doty's 'White Kimono', which we studied in Poetry Seminar. Apple tree again! 

I seem to have done quite a few poems about the apple tree! 

I decided to write it in the form of a villanelle (I think!) 

I mean, whatever will it look like when you're 70?! - Alliteration gone mad. 

....because it was such a lovely morning as the day broke. 

memories! 

OK - I thought I'd come clean and post the sort of thing I write most often - written to be said aloud. 

A response to the exercise in Poetry seminar 

I [i]think[/i] that this is as a result of looking at Dorothy Molloy's poetry last week in Poetry Seminar.... but then, it might just be that I am entertaining my husband's elderly aunt for a week! 

My first attempt at a short story, within the confines of the RLG. Oh dear! At least I tried. 

Nothing personal, just an observation. 

...because I love meeting someone at the airport! 

The names remain unchanged in order to incriminate the guilty. 

Because I have such admiration for those who can - both physically and metaphorically. 

A response to Mary Oliver's 'Heron Rises From The Dark, Summer Pond', studied in Poetry Seminar this week. 

Started as a Found Poem on the front of today's Telegraph. "Crisis in Sudan - Look at the terrified women and children and you stare into the abyss of man's inhumanity to man." 

I wanted to try the repetition which Ticonderoga (Mike) used in 'calling the toad' 

A first draft as a result of the exercise in Poetry Seminar this week. 

Not sure about this one really, but I didn't want to miss the RLG! 

An attempt in the style of Spike Milligan. 

I just stood awhile in the garden, watching them! 

My response to the Gerard Manley Hopkins which we have been looking at in 'Poetry Seminar' this week. 

My attempt! 

My attempt at Terza Rima, which we are looking at in Poetry Seminar this weeek. This took off in a totally unexpected direction!! I just let it go. 

I'm not sure about this one - I might disclose the 'story' behind it, but, at the moment, I am interested in any responses. 

My response to the Hone Tuwhare poem we have been looking at in Poetry Seminar this week. Not the same subject, but, I hope, the same sort of sentiments. 

Just how it is, right now......! 

I was eating dinner, alone, thinking of the Jeremy Hooker... I can never resist the crusty roll .. it was poppy seeds... 

In response to Robert Frost's 'Fire and Ice', which we have been reading in the Poetry Seminar. 

Busy day yesterday - I finally got it sorted! 

A response to Fevvers' "Room exercise" in the Poetry Seminar 

After Anna Akhmatova's 'Willow' - a first attempt! 

I make no apology for this! It was just a silly idea when I actually heard myself saying the first line during the course of conversation. 

I wasn't thinking of doing one of these, but as I looked out this evening through the window amd saw the full moon,.......... 

I wasn't going to post this, as it was just a quick reponse to the Encyclopaedia Britannica's definition of a Found Poem, but in the absence of anything else, here goes... 

At last - I have posted my first sonnet. I THINK I have the technicalities right! 

Following the recent postings re. Haiku, I am experimenting with 2-3-2! 

Another attempt at Haiku, as I find that I am really enjoying it. 

A closed road meant a different route to work today. How things have changed! The development is called Strawberry Fields. 

My first attempt at Haiku. Did I get it right? 

I find it so much easier to write in rhyme, but, having read lots of poetry on WW, I think I ought to try something different.