Poetry
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52 – Week 3 – This Is Me
Read more: 52 – Week 3 – This Is MeThis weeks theme is my exposed body. I suspect this was meant to be an attempt at getting me to write an honest (brutally so) poem that left me exposed as a “good” poet should. However, since I tend to write in character I had a lot of trouble getting into it. Consequentially, this is…
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52 – Week 2 – Doing My Exercise
Read more: 52 – Week 2 – Doing My ExerciseDoing my exercise I’ve been running about round the park like a twat And it’s too bloody cold and I’m too bloody fat I’ve forgotten my gloves and I ain’t got an ‘at And the shorts that I’m in make me look like a prat There are dogs on those leads that are too bloody…
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52 – Week 1
Read more: 52 – Week 1As part of my brilliant plan to be more creative this year, I wanted to do more poetry. So I got this book called, 52 by Jo Bell, which provides a different prompt for each week. You also get a little discussion and one or two example poems on that weeks theme. So I’m doing…
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Bury Me in the Potter’s Field
Read more: Bury Me in the Potter’s FieldThis poem was written some time ago and I totally forgot to post it here. It got over 340 views on Hello Poetry and was a trending poem for 1 day which will most likely be the highlight of my career 😀
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I’m Sexy and a Poet
Read more: I’m Sexy and a PoetWe didn’t do poetry at school, as far as I can remember, although we may have skirted it on occasion. But mostly, thanks to the set system, I was one of those deemed not clever enough to bother teaching poetry to. So it passed me by. It was the Channel 4 show, 8 Out Of 10…