One Saturday Afternoon As I Was Kidnapped by Aliens
by I go through major phases where I flirt with poetry. In the last few years, that’s mostly been expressed as haiku, a form I appear to be having a serio...
Category: Poetry
Haiku on Friday
by So there are times when I’m a haiku addict, and while I mean more writing than reading, there are several books in the house and I have a twitter stream save...
Friday Poetry for 15 December 2017
by Another from the deep vault, the date on this silly piece, according to the original file, is 02 November 1999, and it concerns possibly the greatest food ev...
Friday Poetry for 08 December 2017
by From the vault. The note in the original file is that it’s on the occasion of my almost ten-month-old son’s third cold. He’ll be turning 19...
Friday Poetry
by Words strewn across a page Can capture any age Express random thoughts Show battles won or fought A moment set in time An image held in mind Encourage ideas ...
Friday Poetry – A Blank Verse Sonnet
by Tell me again how there’s no global warming. Oh right, we’re supposed to say climate change. I see, it was cold where you are today, And god is taking care o...
You Were Expecting Something About Bad Luck?
by Written a couple of summers back while musing on the perception of meteorology. Weather prediction Is a nasty affliction And accurate you may be But a...
A Little Verse for a Friday
by Thought maybe we’d try a sonnet this week. Shakespearean, more or less, but the subject is a little less traditional. There is a place for each ...
Friday Haiku for 29 September 2017
by Rumpled grey bed sheets Drawn across the horizon Autumn rain waiting Many boxes in, Sorting through a hand of lives For held memories Numbers o...
Haiku on Friday
by Or Friday Haiku. Fri-ku, if you will. Wrapped in a blanket A warm, comfortable jail While claws are trimmed Safe inside the hide The kale begins to va...