A Triolet For Troubled TimesMy family’s phones shout “Covid contact!”But I can’t find a RATest anywhere Though I know my own risk is slim for a factMy family’s phones shout “Covid contact!”And I feel beholden to the social pactTo test just in case ‘cause it spreads through the airMy family’s phones shout “Covid contact!”But I can’t find a RATest anywhere #notasbadasvogons Continue reading MOP 2022 Day 14
It will happen, one dayThat all the lost things Will be foundThere have beenToo many yearsOf losing thingsThe urge and inspiration to make things Ways to be part of creating fun for othersThe key for the sewing cabinetIn which the sewing machine is lockedRendering it unusable My copy of Swallows and AmazonsThe rest of the Christmas decorations The habit of listening to musicSinging along knowing every wordAnd being soul fed by itThe charger for my Go-Tcha Those very expensive sunglassesMy Nana’s trifle bowl I was sure I’d keptAnd the recipes written in her handOn yellowed sheets of paper The last … Continue reading MOP 2022 Day 12
A pile of three catsCurled at the end of my bedIgnoring the dog#notasbadasvogons Continue reading MOP 2022 Day 11
A tanka for my first day back at work in six weeks The biggest problem With a very long work break?The pain when it endsBut then oh how wonderful Finding it’s actually fun#notasbadasvogons Continue reading MOP 2022 Day 10
I got ten hours sleep last night and I’m still wondering what the hell I was thinking! 🤣This poem had been half written for quite a while but I’d got stuck, nothing like a self imposed public deadline to provide motivation. No, this was not my first take recording it, and I ended up changing one line slightly after finally managing to read it without getting tongue tied, but I didn’t have it in me to do another take after that! 😆 Trouble and StrifeLet me tell you a story of Trouble and StrifeA pair of grey, bright eyed, inquisitive … Continue reading Trouble and Strife – MOP 2022 Day 8 -Saturday challenge: Poetry Performance
This Month Of Poetry thing I’m doing includes various members of the group setting a challenge for each Saturday in January and this week was my turn. Here’s what I came up with: Recently my mum and I were reminiscing about me as a kid and how far back my love for T. S. Eliot and A. A. Milne goes. There exists, on an ancient cassette tape, a recording of me at two years old, reciting “Brownie” and I don’t remember not knowing the importance of “The Naming of Cats”. Consequently I’ve been thinking about poetry as part of early … Continue reading Saturday challenge week 2 – Jan 8 – Poetry Performance
OMG what was I thinking I’ll do it tomorrow have an explanatory nonet 🤣Last night I slept for less than four hoursWoke to cats prowling, dog barkingIt was six in the morningMore slumber a pipe dreamBuckley’s I’m writingThat read aloudVideoed PoemNow#notasbadasvogons Continue reading MOP 2022 Day 9 (because Day 8 ain’t happening today)
Someone in our neighbourhood Found a red bellied black snake todayInside their letterboxWhich is quite the level upFrom the usual huntsman inhabitantsOf such enclosuresAnd there was an echidna seenWandering streets and gardensOn a number of occasionsIn recent months There are magpies that nest in the big treesAt the top of the hill behind my houseSwooping at walkers heading for the bus stop I have ambitions to offer them friendship In the form of scraps of meatAnd quiet familiarityBut I would have to walk up the hill for thatSo I probably won’t Maybe they’ll visit me here one dayI’m planting a … Continue reading MOP 2022 Day 7
Wordle 200 5/6⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩We’re obsessed by a puzzle called wordle And to solve it each day is a hurdleWith six guesses givenFor five letters hidden It leaves all our wits in a curdle#wordle #limerick #notasbadasvogons Continue reading MOP 2022 Day 6 – Wordle
PizzaWhenever I order a pizza That really I don’t want to shareI have found a reliable trickThat near all predation detersIs, whatever the set topping mixTo simply add anchovies there#notasbadasvogons Continue reading MOP 2022 Day 5
Mim's Muddle 