What can I do to make my daydifferent in any waythan the days that came beforeand the virus evened up the scorekeeping us so close to homeeven those that live aloneand are used to being by themselvesstaying indoors and tidying shelvesand anything else to pass the timecleaning and sweeping tasks so divinethat get put to […]
via Making Things Different — Life and Day to Day things by a Pond Lover
One of my recent blogs Attention! has covered the importance of first lines in seizing your reader’s attention, now I’d like to consider the last lines. Having set the reader’s expectations, you now must provide a pay-off. The last line, words or couplet should ensure a satisfying end to your work. They may carry real […]
Art is often unappreciated till the artist is long dead. By then a new generation who reads and hears or looks and sees values the beauty others missed. Artists paint and poets write their understanding of truth in hopes that it will resonate with another soul. Words bring light in a dark night of […]
A great chef doesn’t get better at cooking without eating what other chefs make too!
via Poetry Writing Advice to Live By — Al Edwards Literature Talk
Question asked provoked reflection How genuine thy affection? Good natured heart, misfortune brings Mistrust intentions, efforts sings. Serlina Rose 🇩🇲2020 © Serlina Rose 🇩🇲 IG: @GoalChaser767
Endlessly running through an icy snow storm, trying to find a warm shelter, endlessly sacrificing the luxuries, in order to live, no food, no water and no hope, crying a river frozen mid air, not enough time for each footstep, when they come taunting you, chasing you, you’re too slow, time to go, because you […]
A rough draft held in the air, flame tethered to the flame, ashes to the water, crystalising spaces, you look into the empty hearts of anger and shame, daring to venture beyond your home, a rock under ivy, logs under worms, you look between the hearts of fear and blame, dancing around the lakes of […]
A self portrait I made in 2014 as I was beginning to inhabit and hide within the four walls of my first ever hostel room, afraid of the world outside, afraid of stepping into the blinding and binding lights. It was daunting at first to be alone with one’s thoughts having come from a busy […]
I wrote Closed World many years ago as a result of playing around with ideas about found texts and revisiting the poetry of R.S. Thomas whose language had haunted me since my own O’ level years when ‘the black kettle’s whine’ in Evans‘ solitary hill farm brought the bleak sound of isolation into our classroom. […]
As I continue along on this journey of Throwback Thursday Poetry Edition, I cannot believe how horrible I was to my own writing. I have notes, stickies, comments, and scrawled messages about how much I hate the piece and that I’ll be back to fix it. While the work is clearly not the greatest, it’s […]
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