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Starry Wisdom
sojourner's filled with jealousie
because s/he missed the poetry
because s/he missed the poetry
The Urban Poetry Challenge thread
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Ceej
Where is my mind?
It was utterly immense, sojourner - 7-30 till after 11 and my old mate, Atila the Stockbroker was there!! Ginger John and Janine Booth were brilliant, as was Atila. Spend next weeks' grocery money on poetry book and T shirts - who needs food 
Talk about the cream of the crop....I'll not see a better night than that.
Talk about the cream of the crop....I'll not see a better night than that.
Fantastic!!It was utterly immense, sojourner - 7-30 till after 11 and my old mate, Atila the Stockbroker was there!! Ginger John and Janine Booth were brilliant, as was Atila. Spend next weeks' grocery money on poetry book and T shirts - who needs food
Talk about the cream of the crop....I'll not see a better night than that.
Hahaa - well, yeh, not often you get them all together in the same place is it? Nice one
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i don't know how that errant / crept in
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
I was looking for a thread on which to post a poem and ask for feedback, but since it's in a sonnet form, and most of you seem to think writing to a form is worse than Hitler, I think this is probably not the best place for it. I really like some of the ones posted here, esp Dotty's personified April and May K's one about parenting. 
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
I like sonnets, PM me if you don't want to post it up here
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
Have got a blog that I'll be putting my poetry on, follow me follow me follow me follow me but don't lose your grip....
parataxis.wordpress.com
parataxis.wordpress.com
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
AS it's National Poetry Day and all, here's one that I started working on and then forgot all about 
so it's still well rough, like.
ROUND ROBIN
It’s been a bad year for the children,
passed between hands that couldn’t do enough
and hands that do too much,
awash, away, among the waves
of shock, salt, cars
traffic
between states
they do not, cannot recognise.
It’s been a bad year for the children
while our goods and gains continue to grow
high as the waves, fat as butter,
wasted as the grain
we burn on our shores.
Life-jacket red,
the sun sinks
gilding a path across choppy waters
leavened with the dead.
It’s been a bad year for the children,
they’re not safe around water,
too much of it
or not enough,
we never seem to get it right
we clench them up too tight
or let them roam too far
we pass them by, pass them between
our borders, boundaries, frightened by a tale
of a stranger in a car.
It’s been a bad year for the children
as they bend and break,
tear and tell
and no one comes.
They seem to think they can just
go on growing,
all that food! All that attention,
How much do they need,
really? How much will they bleed?
We try to keep them in
keep them down, contained, we beat them thin
like hammered gold leaf
till they’re a face smiling out of our paper
can you die of a broken hip
my baby’s moving not breathing
poor little thing someone took her
We never seem to get the information we need.
Yes, it’s been a bad year for the children
and the teenagers don’t
seem to want to talk
anymore, thumbing
that stupid broken language
from palm to palm like they’re
blind deaf and dumb.
We can’t seem to get through to them
where they’re going wrong.
Maybe things will be better
when we send this around
next year?
so it's still well rough, like.ROUND ROBIN
It’s been a bad year for the children,
passed between hands that couldn’t do enough
and hands that do too much,
awash, away, among the waves
of shock, salt, cars
traffic
between states
they do not, cannot recognise.
It’s been a bad year for the children
while our goods and gains continue to grow
high as the waves, fat as butter,
wasted as the grain
we burn on our shores.
Life-jacket red,
the sun sinks
gilding a path across choppy waters
leavened with the dead.
It’s been a bad year for the children,
they’re not safe around water,
too much of it
or not enough,
we never seem to get it right
we clench them up too tight
or let them roam too far
we pass them by, pass them between
our borders, boundaries, frightened by a tale
of a stranger in a car.
It’s been a bad year for the children
as they bend and break,
tear and tell
and no one comes.
They seem to think they can just
go on growing,
all that food! All that attention,
How much do they need,
really? How much will they bleed?
We try to keep them in
keep them down, contained, we beat them thin
like hammered gold leaf
till they’re a face smiling out of our paper
can you die of a broken hip
my baby’s moving not breathing
poor little thing someone took her
We never seem to get the information we need.
Yes, it’s been a bad year for the children
and the teenagers don’t
seem to want to talk
anymore, thumbing
that stupid broken language
from palm to palm like they’re
blind deaf and dumb.
We can’t seem to get through to them
where they’re going wrong.
Maybe things will be better
when we send this around
next year?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
2016
it's been a bad year for the children
a much worse one for the slebs
the weather's not met expectations
but it's better than being dead
it's been a bad year for the children
hearing sounds of years gone by
bowie and prince are not forgotten
when they hear them the children sigh
it's been a bad year for the children
a much worse one for dead slebs
the dead pool lists are all filled in
and the children all go 'meh'
Badgers
it's been a bad year for the children
a much worse one for the slebs
the weather's not met expectations
but it's better than being dead
it's been a bad year for the children
hearing sounds of years gone by
bowie and prince are not forgotten
when they hear them the children sigh
it's been a bad year for the children
a much worse one for dead slebs
the dead pool lists are all filled in
and the children all go 'meh'
Badgers
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
When selene hangs yellow crescent
I see a witches hook nose, inner curve.
The cackle forms and I laugh too.
Friendly moon.
If the lady is full white, round, austere.
I reflect sober as she, for now.
Full bodied sky fruit with a smallpox veneer.
Stern Moon
Should she wax or wane the balance,
I follow that too. Shrink or swell.
Faces half shadowed, her and I
Once, just once, she wore red for me.
Normal phenomena they say. But
I know better, selene knows better.
Blood moon
I see a witches hook nose, inner curve.
The cackle forms and I laugh too.
Friendly moon.
If the lady is full white, round, austere.
I reflect sober as she, for now.
Full bodied sky fruit with a smallpox veneer.
Stern Moon
Should she wax or wane the balance,
I follow that too. Shrink or swell.
Faces half shadowed, her and I
Once, just once, she wore red for me.
Normal phenomena they say. But
I know better, selene knows better.
Blood moon
Ceej
Where is my mind?
Had the very great pleasure of meeting sojourner on Saturday night, and great to see the not-very-well ShiftyBagLady. Soj is such a brilliant performer - already loved her poetry but awesome to see them live. Joy Frank was great too...though turning around to see a sea of Donald Trumps will feed my nightmares for some time!
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
I'm glad I made it, it was touch and go for a while there but I had a great time. Must admit that I felt a bit like a fan as I knew almost all of sojourner poems but I loved the performance of them. It's a cliche to say she brings the writing to life but I think that's the best description; her performances are so full of life and energy that it makes the words more potent. Highly, highly rated.
Joy Frank was a joy to behold, I loved her silly and her serious and her moving poem about her son and her rap, those were my favourites. I posted a video of the trump thing on Facebook, hope she gets to see it.
Lovely to see you too Ceej, always a pleasure
Joy Frank was a joy to behold, I loved her silly and her serious and her moving poem about her son and her rap, those were my favourites. I posted a video of the trump thing on Facebook, hope she gets to see it.
Lovely to see you too Ceej, always a pleasure
Had a migraine.Thanks so much for coming ShiftyBagLady and Ceej - and Ron Merlin too! It's Joy France btw, not Frank And yeh. she really is something! Housmans was really quite reserved compared to the Brixton gig, and I'm afraid I got even shoutier because of it
And yeh. she really is something! Housmans was really quite reserved compared to the Brixton gig, and I'm afraid I got even shoutier because of it 
we need to get this poetry thread going again. sojourner? May?
Sorry Cheesypoof - never saw that post of yours until now. It's prob best to tag me if you want me
albionism - sommat you want to share, mate?
albionism - sommat you want to share, mate?
albionism
A successful virus clinging to a speck of mud.
I put a short poem up, but was a bitSorry Cheesypoof - never saw that post of yours until now. It's prob best to tag me if you want me
albionism - sommat you want to share, mate?
embarrassed so I deleted it.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I saw a mouse, I didn't care for it.
Beady eyed arrogance, shocked still twitcher,
coiled to run and run
There was a cat, tom by build,
studied lazy contempt,
coiled to rend and tear.
The Red Kites came early this year,
to wheel in updrafts, dive to the London Road.
Their easy carrion-call existence
At home a small life rests, beady eyed,
arrogant with youth, with teeth
and fur and insatiable curiosity.
I care for it.
Beady eyed arrogance, shocked still twitcher,
coiled to run and run
There was a cat, tom by build,
studied lazy contempt,
coiled to rend and tear.
The Red Kites came early this year,
to wheel in updrafts, dive to the London Road.
Their easy carrion-call existence
At home a small life rests, beady eyed,
arrogant with youth, with teeth
and fur and insatiable curiosity.
I care for it.
Right - how about someone pick something off this list, and we all have a week to write sommat?
https://belljarblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/a-month-of-poetry-prompts1.pdf
https://belljarblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/a-month-of-poetry-prompts1.pdf
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I could do a luadation all day long but I couldn't bring myself to air it. One to be read at my funeral to remind weeping eyes of what a smug bastard I could be at times
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
It was utterly immense, sojourner - 7-30 till after 11 and my old mate, Atila the Stockbroker was there!! Ginger John and Janine Booth were brilliant, as was Atila. Spend next weeks' grocery money on poetry book and T shirts - who needs food
Talk about the cream of the crop....I'll not see a better night than that.
A bump only really because we went to see Janine Booth last night, she was aces
Heh - me and Janine are doing a gig together this Saturday as it happens, in Otley Labour Rooms! She is fantastic, agreed. When we did a gig last year, it was like meeting the southern version of meA bump only really because we went to see Janine Booth last night, she was aces
so am proper looking forward to this one!I am hoping to return to That London, possibly in October, and if I do, we will deffo be doing a gig together
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
march 2016
hawking's dead but cliff still lives
i'm not sure there are many positives
nigel farage lives - now there's a pity
his slow painful death would not be shitty
hawking's dead but cliff still lives
i'm not sure there are many positives
nigel farage lives - now there's a pity
his slow painful death would not be shitty
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