Precious

I wrote this as my response to the latest Read Write Prompt over at Read Write Poem. This week’s prompt was “Narrative Wallpaper”. This one’s a bit of a rush job, partly inspired by seeing Precious at the cinema.

Handmade

I wrote this as my response to the latest Read Write Prompt over at Read Write Poem. This week was a visual prompt from the following image:

Image by Sepulture {mood disorder}

The image reminded me of a poem I had already half finished, so I went back to it and ended up with this:

Notes to Self:

I wrote this as my response to the latest Read Write Prompt over at Read Write Poem. It was a word prompt this week, with the following words (the ones I missed are in brackets):

drawing, brunt, fertile, enthusiast, (elite), (Hercules), (froth), question, (sundered), (shouldered), thigh, simple, stones.

My holidays are nearing an end and now that I have less time, I’m paradoxically finding more time to write poetry, after missing the last two prompts. I’ll try and go back and do them when I get a chance. In the meantime, here’s what I made of this week’s words:

Undeliverable

I wrote this as my response to the latest Read Write Prompt over at Read Write Poem. You had to write a poem including some or all of the following words:

wind, safer, meteors, hit, moon, pulled, radar, trees, abiding, pierced, precious, telephone, curled, backs, moved, neglect, shell, stars.

I’ve been drawing a lot lately and found it hard to get back into writing mode, so I didn’t manage to use all of the words.

Just Bring Yourselves

I wrote this as my response to the latest Read Write Prompt over at Read Write Poem. It’s all about childhood memories and food association this week.

The Pies Have It

I wrote this as my response to the latest Read Write Prompt over at Read Write Poem. It was a P-themed prompt this week, and you had to include some or all of the following words:

Procrastinate, Posthumous, Parallelogram, Porous, Processional, Plethora, Prevaricate, Plaster, Pernicious, Platitude, Prickle, Polyglot, Pea.

I read them out loud and instead of looking up the definitions of the harder ones, I figured I’d go with a bit of a nonsense poem and just throw them in wherever they sounded good. “Plethora” initially escaped my attention, and then escaped my ability to work it in to the poem.

Becoming Waterwise

This is from last year, when we had a nice efficient water-saving shower head installed. I’ve since got used to it, and plumbers are once again safe to walk the streets of Brisbane :)

Dear Soul

I wrote this as my response to the latest Read Write Prompt over at Read Write Poem. You had to write a poem that set a scene in order to tell a story, without actually telling it. I’ve been researching my family history lately so perhaps death has been on my mind.

Lunacy

I wrote this as my response to the latest Read Write Prompt over at Read Write Poem. This week was a visual prompt from the following image:

Fair Fireworks! by auburnxc

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This…

I wrote this as my response to the latest Read Write Prompt over at Read Write Poem. This week we had to use the cut up technique, which is not my cup of tea in any way. I tried to go for something a little less random than cutting up one article and drawing the words out of a hat. I bought a copy of New Scientist, and a copy of Vogue (I was originally planning for something trashier than vogue but once I was in the newsagent I couldn’t bring myself to do it) and cut interesting phrases from each. I paired up combos that worked, then rearranged them all into the following piece, which makes very little sense, even to me. Bring on next weeks prompt :)

And in case you’re interested, a “tri-dimensional amplifying network” is something that (apparently) develops when you use an expensive “hair amplifier” …but only once it’s “injected into the core of the hair fibre”. According to an ad in Vogue, anyway.