I had fallen in love with them instantly. I knew I shouldn’t have taken the short-cut through the market-place that Sunday morning after …
My mother use to tell me a story about how she loved a pair of shiny wellington boots she had seen in a shop window when she was a child. I have adapted the story and tell it here.
A Muddy Pair Of Shoes / A Story …
Students teased a little poor boy that always showed up to school with muddy shoes. However, there is a good reason why. The teacher tries to find out the reason for it, but it becomes hard to follow him up the mountain trail. Now, it’s your time to follow him and if you do, you will be glad you read this story.
In deepest woods, / With hardest hands, / Were all these letters / Made. Not quick / But gentle, not deep / But heavy, not finished, / Stil…
We’re a clique just me and you. / Our cabal, it’s made for two. / Oh Camarilla. / ...Oh, Camarilla.
I wrote this poem for a friend at Uni who was studying Engineering. Hi Shane, if you’re reading! He was trying to impress an English Lit major he had been dating for a few weeks and enlisted my help to tell her how he felt. I was studying accounting by the way. Yeah, go figure. The challenge was this: / She (Fiona) had an assignment to write a poem combining “cabal” and “couple”. / The poem had to be exactly 40 lines. / No words could be longer than 5 letters except a name. I chose Camarilla (which is a cabal). / Two line rhymes only or no rhymes at all. / Presented orally to music. So, Shane wanted to tell her how he felt, show her he knew something about Lit and impress her by completing the assignment before she did. Big ask for a guy whose best writing (he will freely admit this) was done inside the symbols on flowcharts! But how could I refuse – an opportunity to play Cyrano de Bergerac! I found it recently, on paper gone crisp and yellow with age, but here I have modified it with 11 words over the 5 letter limit. I also added a line. I don’t care, it sounds better. It’s harder to write a long poem using small words than you might think but the result actually makes it “sing-song” better. Do you think? 4×7 letter words / 7×6 letter words / 26×5 letter words / 39×4 letter words / 38×3 letter words / 35×2 letter words / 13×1 letter words Anyone care to guess what happened to Shane and Fiona.
And on the sixth day, God created Man. Before dropping Man into the lush garden below, God paused for a moment.
A little bit of fun for Star Twisters’ Retaliation challenge
With hands upon my face I begin to find the distance / between fingers accustomed to sensations entwined with / delicate hands much smaller…
Bookends, / a pair are we / solid wood carved elephants / a token of love / from a trip, deep sea
This really did start as a ode to bookends, before growing into an observation of a partnership gone wrong. And of the deep sadness that brings…anyway i think to much!! This was keeping me awake so had to get it down on paper. No actual bookends were harmed in the writing of this piece. And the society for the protection of wooden elephants should note, the door stop thing never happened. x
ENTER THE HUMANS By Jason Pepper Our journey begins in a galaxy th…
The other day I was struck with an awful headache / Bang, Bang, Bang… / You know that thing
A poem of two shoes
Big boots and leather jackets / smoking / Watching life from a zipped enclosure / Protected from the outside / by a secret connection / I’...
Zazzle ..sold a pair of shoes
Sold
That’s why tonight she came out to count snowflakes
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