Lights and Steps
Palm pressed to the pedestrian button
He feels the metronomic blip blip blip
A warning to cease one’s step
He waits for the lights to change
And permission to proceed
Red turns to green
The button vibrates its urgency
He turns
And walks the other way
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The Public Eye
The spotlight is an all-seeing eye
Unlidded, unrelenting, unforgiving
Pointing out your faults
For public discussion
The spotlight is me
Towards Home
He rounds the bases
Four stepping stones
Four points of the compass
Four corners of the world
Four seasons in one day
Four aces (and a joker)
And the final step
Towards home
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Germination
In a tie-dyed dress
The colour of sunflowers
She spins anti-clockwise
and blooms.
Dizzy, she drops.
The bloom folds
In hope of reversing
the day.
Thus, on February 1, Post It Note Poetry commences.
The premise is simple: for the 28 days of February, write a poem on a post it note, take a photo of it and post it on twitter with the hash tag #postitnotepoetry. If you want, post it to your blog, too.
This year I am combining Post It Note Poetry with micropoetry (a maximum of 128 characters, excluding the hash tag). You can see my recent micropoetry posts here on the blog under the Ars Poetica category.
I will post here and update the Post It Note Poetry 2014 page daily. You can see last year’s Post It Note Poetry here.
In Roiling Waves
In the shallows
my roiling feet
send sediment clouds
of volcanic eruptions.
Are my feet of clay
dissolving
into
the
dust?
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a single white orchid
in a glass vase
on a glass coffee table
I press my thumb
onto the glass
to humanise austerity
We took a selfie
(Long before
the coined phrase)
With film and hope
My head is cut off
And you’re
Out of focus
Beginning of
Our definition
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I want to pull
at this loose thread
but…
I dare not pull it
lest I unravel completely
and reveal the emperor’s
new clothes
I pick up
what you
deliberately dropped;
the broken
object discarded.
Yet its
brokenness remains
in you.
Is this
your healing?
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When I share the table
With you and we eat
Together in communion
We cast off our fears
And we find strength
In common union
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I am an English teacher and drummer/percussionist with an interest in literary pursuits, creative endeavours, rhythmic permutations, theological amplifications and comedic outbursts.
Here you will find my creative detritus: articles on living a creative life and writing explorations.
And other ideas I have snaffled from the papers stuck on the fridge door.
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My collaborative epistolary novel, "Post Marked: Piper's Reach," written with Jodi Cleghorn (@JodiCleghorn) out now via Vine Leaves Press.
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