Pride Commeth Before a Fall

28 Feb 201528 Feb 2015

Dear indulgent reader I have reached the end of the Writing 201 course on poetry. At last I bid the poetic muse a fond farewell for the time being and…

Ode to a …

26 Feb 201526 Feb 2015

Ode to a... In the drawer my precious treasure, Did your value first beguile me? Depth and brilliance beyond measure, Did your beauty hypnotise me?   Tossed down in a…

à gauche

25 Feb 201525 Feb 2015

I oft think upon what might have been should life have dealt a better hand. “à droit”, “adroit”, “dexter”, “dexterous”; the very romance languages crying out against me, alone, left…

My Hero!

23 Feb 201523 Feb 2015

How do you know a hero? How do you know them? How do you find them out? How do they hide? How do you write about them? Draw them? Design…

Oh that I were a Fog

23 Feb 201512 Mar 2015

Oh that I were a fog, a mist Of this world, but, like smoke, furled about more solid things, and yet unhurt by their passing. To caress the object of…

Life is Short

18 Feb 201527 Feb 2015

Day 3 of Writing 201. The theme? Writing 201: Trust. The form? Acrostic. Today’s device: internal rhyme I thought I might use my blog name as an inspiration for a sonnet…

There was a Francophile from Nantucket

17 Feb 201518 Feb 2015

Day 2 of Poetry 201 and the form is Limerick. We already know far more than we should about that vile creature from Nantucket so I have produced 4 other…