Tag Archives: slice of life

Post It Note Poetry #4 – The Public Eye

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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

Post It Note Poetry #3 – Towards Home

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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

Post It Note Poetry #2 – Germination

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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.

Post It Note Poetry #1

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

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In the shallows
my roiling feet
send sediment clouds
of volcanic eruptions.
Are my feet of clay
dissolving
into
the
dust?

A Museum of Domesticity’s Austerity – Micropoetry

a single white orchid
in a glass vase
on a glass coffee table
I press my thumb
onto the glass
to humanise austerity

Our Photograph – Micropoetry

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

Pulling At Threads – Micropoetry

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

Miscellaneous Objects – Micropoetry

I pick up
what you
deliberately dropped;
the broken
object discarded.
Yet its
brokenness remains
in you.
Is this
your healing?

Post It Note Philosophy #21

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To create you must first listen.

listen to your heart, your mind, your soul; the rhythm of your life and the rhythm of nature.

when you have learned to listen, you will have the power to speak with authority.

Adult Scars – Micropoetry

adult scars run deep
prone to reopening
when picked at until
festering scabs form
habits from childhood
where we wish to return