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In what looks set to become a regular guest slot at EIF, Don Matthews of The Flippant, Comic, and Serious has contributed a further trilogy of poems. I think they speak for themselves so this post needs very little introduction. I need only add that if you enjoy this post you should head over to... Continue Reading →
Chewits are chewier than Barrow-in-Furness bus depotMilk is what Ian Rush drinksAccrington Stanley is a club you’ve never heard ofDon’t play with a kite near overhead electric wiresDon’t ever talk to strangers, especially ifThey have a car boot full of puppies, orThey offer you sweets, butIf you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuitJoin... Continue Reading →
This week's challenge called for a quatrain, on any subject and with any rhyming scheme/metre (though it should include both). This challenge had a wonderful variety of responses on subjects ranging from comedy to tragedy. In the realm of poetry there is room for both and everything in between. I want to say a special... Continue Reading →
30 years since you walked out that doorinto another world, unknown to meand did you know, that fateful night the wounds you would be opening?Unhealed for 30 years and moreno doubtunending till eternity should close my eyesas they closed yoursand I can never know the details: where did you go in?I hope that it was high upthat your neck... Continue Reading →
For today's Poetry Challenge, we are going to take a look at Quatrains, which simply put are 4-line stanzas. They normally follow a strict rhyming scheme, e.g.: ABAB: I went to the Garden of Love,And saw what I never had seen:A chapel was built in the midst,Where I used to play on the green. From... Continue Reading →
I submitted a new poem, 'My Other-Me' to Free Verse Revolution in response to the October prompt, 'Reflections.' I am delighted to say that the poem has been published over at FVR in advance of the new month: My Other-Me The bent swans’ necksformed a heart-shapereflected in the lake:I thought of you.My Other-Mereflected in themirror-glass... Continue Reading →
Today I am delighted to bring you another guest post from the wonderfully talented and unashamedly silly Don Matthews of 'The Flippant, Comic, and Serious.' In today's poem he is channelling his all-time hero, Spike Milligan. Even if Don's cat, 'Silly Billy' (pictured above) is not impressed, I'm sure you will be: Willy-Nilly I would... Continue Reading →
Tone Pavček was one of Slovenia's most renowned modern poets. His work was recommended to me by a family member who knew I liked poetry. So I borrowed a book of his poems from the library. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find many translations of his work into English, so I thought I'd... Continue Reading →
I am proud to have another poem appearing at FVR today. I wrote it after touching down from a somewhat traumatic flight: As we descended through the cloudsThe skies darkened so suddenlyI wonderedIf there is an afterlife andIf so, would it be some ectoplasmicVersion of this one... Read on at Free Verse Revolution. Be sure... Continue Reading →
Today, I am proud to be hosting Don Matthews at EIF. Don is an Australian writer who's work is different to the 'norm'. He focuses on rhyme with content taken from humour, serious, nonsense, absurd etc. I recommend exploring his site 'Flippant, Comic, and Serious' for poetry with a difference: The Flippant, Comic, and Serious... Continue Reading →
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