Reading and writing Learning the skill of Haiku Use you resources (c)Poetry from The ManShed 30/08/19
Tag: Poetry
Living among voiceless voices
He entered, flicked on the dimmed light bulb Locking out the night Living each day breath by breath. Spoke aloud, to nothing but an empty room No sound, save that of a beating heart But this was no ordinary room Here he received answers to unheard questions Peering out through laced curtains At a distant […]
“I’m in the jailhouse now”
Three chords, a country song That’s what life is? As you travel down that “Lost Highway” The “Price of Regret” lives in the next “Tumbling Tumbleweed” town Suffering from the “Seven Year Itch” You think to yourself the “Old Home Place” Never held no people promise Believing that you’re “Tougher Than The Rest” Never dreaming […]
Patiently waiting
You’ve sat beside one in a surgery waiting room As if in that air there was not enough gloom You turn to make friendly conversation – then They’ll begin to tell you about bunions, blood pressure, arthritic pain, medication That and all those other complications You cast your eyes to the heavens, they ask Are […]
Haiku
Not much left to say Tomorrow we start again We all have reasons (c)Poetry from The ManShed 26/08/19
Pep talk
You’ve not been turning out much lately His muse suggested Grumpily, he agreed after a stretch and yawn One word of advice I’ll offer she said You just have to get back on the horse Think up, up, up I want an easy life I know you like the back of my hand Think about […]
Haiku
Logophobia The writer will get nowhere Suffering from this (c) Poetry from The ManShed 24/08/19
The invisible train of thought
At night when all colours blend into one Writing about familiarity, the burden which life brings All this can be reversed with the dawn sound of bird song. Daily he walks by this ramshackle house It becomes more dilapidated week on week Those who made this house a home Now interred in a nearby graveyard […]
Tiptoeing backwards
Feel the strain, when thought gets dry in the brain To the outsider quite difficult to explain when trying to compose a quatrain Try to get the mind in motion without causing to much commotion Only the person with pen in hand will win the battle, write as planned. Taking ones foot off the throttle […]
Going in search of purer language
Today he will make his way to pastures new Borrow from words which he has already written. Unquestionably? Don’t we all follow this path Once by this writing bug we are bitten. We owe it to words to give them their due He’ll do this until he draws his last breath. Words which are gentle, […]
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