poetry – Page 2 – Everything Is Better With Dragons

Friday morning

Bin day
And I forgot to put the recycling boxes out again.

I think I might go back to sleep.

Middle of the night

I get poetic when I can’t sleep, apparently, so here’s an acrostic poem about anxiety.Continue reading “Middle of the night”

Interview cancelled by migraine. A poem.

I wrote a complaint in verse, because I felt like it.Continue reading “Interview cancelled by migraine. A poem.”

Another rough draft. I really should make more effort to polish these poems up before I publish them. I suppose it’s the nature of something like NaPoWriMo, the purpose is, for me at least, to stir my creativity. I haven’t had a lot of success.Continue reading “NaPoWriMo day 19”

I suppose I should write some poetry

Do you know what’s really rather irritating? At half two this morning I had the bones of a poem rattling around in my brain.Continue reading “I suppose I should write some poetry”

Hretha’s Drumbeats

Rattling drumbeats calling out

Howling trumpets soaring

Hretha’s army is on the march

Seek refuge while you can

Or, it started pouring down with rain just before I finished work this afternoon and I got soaked.

This, by the way, is my inadequate introduction to my post. Forgive the truly poor poetry. It was inspired by the weather this afternoon. My brain bounced from ‘the weather is awful’ to

Continue reading “Hretha’s Drumbeats”

Things written in the night

Sometimes I can’t sleep. When I can’t sleep I write. The first drafts of my poetry usually arrive in the night, or modifications to my fiction.
Continue reading “Things written in the night”