Acrostic Corner..

This week, I discovered acrostic poetry. Quelle fun!

Now, this is my first attempt, so er- be gentle…..

Dobby

Darling, come in from the rain

            you lovely ball of fur

One look at me with your penetrating

            green eyes and I’m

Bowled over, just putty in your

            velvet paws

But if you sabotage my dolls house again

            And act like King Kong

You are out on your ear!

            (you little cow!)

I think I have to work on this art form. If anyone has some good acrostic pieces, please send them in via the contact page.

And to conclude, this is a picture of me performing at The Cranleigh Arts Festival last year – March 2019. In this significant time in history, I need to remind myself how much I took for granted.

I long to wear that necklace again…..

Something in the Basket!

Good morning, Poetry lovers. No sign of Dobby, but there is something wonderful in the Poetry Basket!

Yes! The wonderful Susan Evan’s debut collection Shift Happens will be reviewed over on our Poetry Basket Page.

To bag(!) a signed author copy, follow this link http://susanevanspoet.bigcartel.com

You can follow Susan Evan’s work on Facebook and Instagram @SusanEvansPoet

Now turn over to the Poetry Basket page for a delight!!

The Poetry Door….

Let’s see what’s behind the Poetry Door today….

It’s a lovely poem by Mary Carr. A great friend of mine, poetry has come to her recently. Mary has produced beautiful work, and is happy to share this poem with you:

I will…

I WILL RIDE THE WAVES

I WILL FIGHT THE TURBULENCE

TILL I COME OUT THE OTHER SIDE

AND SEE THE LIGHT AGAIN

AND ALL IT’S GLORY AND LIVE

ANOTHER DAY OF HOPE AND

JOY

Mary Carr 2019

Watch This Space…..

Dobby!!! What are you doing there?! Where’s the poetry basket?

What’s that, Dobby? A new and exciting collection is about to go in it? Very soon?

And meanwhile, here’s a comic strip?

Yes, we have another review coming soon, so watch this space and no flipping!

Meanwhile…..

Our Hero is complaining….
Bookjacket is hopeful

But it’s not easy…….

Bookjacket comes through……

Is there a moral in this tale? The talent was there all along? Who really knows?

See you soon with the Poetry Basket Review……

Something in the Basket today…..

Dobby is looking everywhere for the Poetry Basket. However, it will be a fruitless search, as I have the basket right here. And what’s more, it has something new and wonderful inside it.

Turn over to the Poetry Basket Review page, where we review Sharron Green’s lovely collection ‘Introducing Rhymes_n_Roses’

A stunning and personal pamphlet.

Now flip over to the other channel, while I tell Dobby to call off the search –

The Poetry Window

Hello. Today we’re looking through the Poetry Window. Dobby and I wonder if we can see any poetry out there……

Dobby reckons not, but by sheer coincidence, I happen to have a poem called Windows! How uncanny is that ?!

Read on –

WINDOWS

Why are everyone else’s windows so warm

and enticing?  Comfortable and cosy?

Walking back from me Nan’s, I see

orange bay windows, the colour of Quality Street,

concealing a happy family snuggled up.

Toys cleared away, clean pYjamas and cocoa.

Why do I have to come home to such a

shithole?!

A fusion of strip lighting and cold lino,

the coal fire warming our fronts while our backs

shivered. 

No-one would look at our crude lighted window with

such envy!

Anyway, it faces the back! 

HM 2018

The Zoom Affair

Well, the Zoom poetry evening was a great success. Apprehensions of not reading poetry for three months melted away, as I saw familiar faces on the Write Out Loud screen. We were all in the same boat. Unnerved by not hearing myself speak, and that dreaded Mute button, I ploughed on anyway. Memories of live readings before the lights went out came flooding back. Bringing hope that we may return there soon. So lovely to hear some of those voices again. I basked in that sea of talent.

Now, is it me? Or do those little blocks of poets remind me of Celebrity Squares?

So, the Poetry Basket – one of the stunning and prolific poets reading last night – Donall Dempsey has some very relevant and clever Haiku to share with us… Dobby? Poetry Basket please…..

Dobby has been watching The Beverley Hillbillies. They really don’t make ’em like that anymore.

Now, prepare to be stunned –

COVID WALK

old man

out walking

his shadow

young boy

taking his pet log

for a walk

a cloud

hamming it up

as Godzilla

ghost town

the only sound

a pub sign’s creaking

she sneezes snot

wipes it on her sleeve

glad I’m wearing a mask

the sky

the colour of

a blackbird’s song