I promised some of my micropoetry that's never been published before - even on Twitter.
So I've got you some. :)
These poems have been languishing in my notebook for far too long. It's time to let them fly into the world and be read by you, my dearest nerdlets (Me? Nervous? ...Maybe a little.)
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Showing posts with label micropoetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label micropoetry. Show all posts
Saturday 27 May 2017
Wednesday 3 May 2017
Micropoetry - April 2017
Here's the micropoetry I wrote in April!
I'm planning on posting one or two other micropoetry posts very soon, since people seemed to think it was a good idea when I suggested it last month.
I was going to do it in April, but, *shrugs* life happens. So I'm hoping to get at least one done by the end of May. (Emphasis on hoping!)
I'm planning on posting one or two other micropoetry posts very soon, since people seemed to think it was a good idea when I suggested it last month.
I was going to do it in April, but, *shrugs* life happens. So I'm hoping to get at least one done by the end of May. (Emphasis on hoping!)
Wednesday 5 April 2017
Micropoetry - March 2017
The end of March means that it's time for the wrap-up of my micropoetry!
(Yes, the same micropoetry that I inflict on my Twitter followers throughout the month, collected into one handy-dandy blogpost!)
(Yes, the same micropoetry that I inflict on my Twitter followers throughout the month, collected into one handy-dandy blogpost!)
Tuesday 7 March 2017
Micropoetry - February 2017
You know the drill by now - and if you don't, here's the low-down:
I write micropoetry on Twitter and once a month I put it all together in a wrap-up post :) Got that? Awesome! On to the poetry!
I write micropoetry on Twitter and once a month I put it all together in a wrap-up post :) Got that? Awesome! On to the poetry!
Wednesday 1 February 2017
Micropoetry - January 2017
Ok, January 2017's micropoetry by yours truly.
There's only 3 pieces this month because I've been uber-busy with work, personal stuff, and #DisabilityDiaries2017
There's only 3 pieces this month because I've been uber-busy with work, personal stuff, and #DisabilityDiaries2017
20th January
Strength.
Not shouting the loudest.
Not hating the most.
But loving all you can.
Getting back up.
Facing another day.
That's strength.
25th January
You do not understand
As I take you gently by the hand
& tell you
no
& try to stop you pushing the knife
further into me than you have
28th January
But my dears,
The rain
Is just the part
Of the sky
That we can touch.
And
That touches us.
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Monday 9 January 2017
The Writer Diaries - Micropoetry, December 2016
January may have rung in, bringing 2017 with it, but I'm sure I won't be alone in having 2016 business outstanding.
So, to that end, let's get one piece of that business done and dusted, shall we?
This is all the micropoetry I wrote in December. I've grouped the poems for the 9th and 12th together because they're sort of... companion poems.
Hope you like it!
1st December
I remember
That she said to me
'Honey,
I'm a worker bee,
but the taste
is not so sweet,
as it should be.'
9th December
A silent agreement
That we would give our hearts to each other
but each keep our own.
I knew & you knew.
We knew we'd never speak of it
12th December
We danced in serious nonsense
Words of Narnia & diamond smuggling
They thought we were fools
& we knew that our game was reality's mask
15th December
There was a murmur,
A rustle in the secret-keeping trees,
And our open secret turned out to be the tragic truth.
Your death killed her.
29th December
When we grew up
We learned
That the woods are full of big bad wolves
And we must defend Red Riding Hood
With sticks and stones
31st December
To you
You incredible people,
Who made me feel worth something
Who made me smile
Who inspired me & kept me going
Happy New Year
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So, to that end, let's get one piece of that business done and dusted, shall we?
This is all the micropoetry I wrote in December. I've grouped the poems for the 9th and 12th together because they're sort of... companion poems.
Hope you like it!
1st December
I remember
That she said to me
'Honey,
I'm a worker bee,
but the taste
is not so sweet,
as it should be.'
9th December
A silent agreement
That we would give our hearts to each other
but each keep our own.
I knew & you knew.
We knew we'd never speak of it
12th December
We danced in serious nonsense
Words of Narnia & diamond smuggling
They thought we were fools
& we knew that our game was reality's mask
15th December
There was a murmur,
A rustle in the secret-keeping trees,
And our open secret turned out to be the tragic truth.
Your death killed her.
29th December
When we grew up
We learned
That the woods are full of big bad wolves
And we must defend Red Riding Hood
With sticks and stones
31st December
To you
You incredible people,
Who made me feel worth something
Who made me smile
Who inspired me & kept me going
Happy New Year
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Wednesday 30 November 2016
The Writer Diaries - Micropoetry, November 2016
Well, I certainly wrote more this month than I did last month.
I have no idea whether any of these are any good - but here you go anyway; enjoy! (Or not. Whatever.)
4th November
Princesses are flawless
Pale, weak, & soft
Born to be brides
Princesses don't kiss princesses;
Girls need to be princesses -
Right...?
13th November
Fight for hope.
Fight for people.
You'll make mistakes,
Get up & do things better.
Treat people like people.
Love with your whole heart
16th November
We told you
That the fire
Was burning
You laughed
And stuck your hand in the flame
Told us to do the same.
Unlike you, we felt the pain
24th November
I put my heart
Into it all
& how I tried
To make it count
But you can't please all of the people
All of the time
No matter how you try
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I have no idea whether any of these are any good - but here you go anyway; enjoy! (Or not. Whatever.)
4th November
Princesses are flawless
Pale, weak, & soft
Born to be brides
Princesses don't kiss princesses;
Girls need to be princesses -
Right...?
7th November
Sweethearts
- because your hearts are sweet, aren't they? -
remember that people are people
Who love & live & hope & wish
Just like you
13th November
Fight for hope.
Fight for people.
You'll make mistakes,
Get up & do things better.
Treat people like people.
Love with your whole heart
14th November
People are fallible
They can be selfish
They can be short-sighted
They can be ignorant
The best ones try to do better
Even if they fail
16th November
We told you
That the fire
Was burning
You laughed
And stuck your hand in the flame
Told us to do the same.
Unlike you, we felt the pain
24th November
I see your face
In the weirdest of places
And it never seems
To be good news
24th November
I put my heart
Into it all
& how I tried
To make it count
But you can't please all of the people
All of the time
No matter how you try
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Wednesday 26 October 2016
The Writer Diaries - Micropoetry, October 2016
So, October is on it's way out, and it's time to show you the micropoetry I wrote this month.
It's kind of been an up-and-down month for me, depression-wise, so sorry if these are kind of a bummer... and there are only three of them.
Sorry.
10th October
How do they do it?
The charmed ones -
While we strive, struggle, scrimp, save,
The universe re-arranges itself,
To better suit them.
13th October
I'm so tired
Of feeling so tired
Not knowing what's required
of me. What should I do?
What do you want from me?
I'm so tired.
23rd October
Tired.
Running uphill just to stay in one place.
Tired of the struggle; of the fight; of the hate; of the dark.
Tired of being tired.
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It's kind of been an up-and-down month for me, depression-wise, so sorry if these are kind of a bummer... and there are only three of them.
Sorry.
10th October
How do they do it?
The charmed ones -
While we strive, struggle, scrimp, save,
The universe re-arranges itself,
To better suit them.
13th October
I'm so tired
Of feeling so tired
Not knowing what's required
of me. What should I do?
What do you want from me?
I'm so tired.
23rd October
Tired.
Running uphill just to stay in one place.
Tired of the struggle; of the fight; of the hate; of the dark.
Tired of being tired.
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Wednesday 28 September 2016
The Writer Diaries - Micropoetry, September 2016
It's that time again dearest nerdlets! September is rapidly skimming out of view, and I have more micropoetry to share with you.
Sorry if several of these are kind of a downer - I learnt that someone I knew in school had died and... yeah.
I kind of worked through some stuff (the poems for 13th Sep will show you that,) so feel free to skip anything that's bringing you down!
9th September
13th September (I)
How am I supposed to feel?
They say you died;
A casual friend;
I hadn't heard your name in years.
How am I supposed to feel?
Tell me.
13th September (II)
Do I have a right to grieve?
5 years or more -
Must have been
Never close, even then
Just two birds of the same flock
One bird now dead
13th September (III)
A background fixture,
Left behind when I left the room.
Weren't you younger than me?
Or was it a few days older?
Young & pretty & dead
17th September
23rd September
2016
The year of mean.
Have my tears,
But cariad, I'm gonna sing
Over the heads of abject liars -
Reaching ears that may hear
me
2016
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Sorry if several of these are kind of a downer - I learnt that someone I knew in school had died and... yeah.
I kind of worked through some stuff (the poems for 13th Sep will show you that,) so feel free to skip anything that's bringing you down!
9th September
Nothing deserves pity
More than those
who fear love & compassion
& turn instead to hate
Poor lost soul,
Find your way home soon
13th September (I)
How am I supposed to feel?
They say you died;
A casual friend;
I hadn't heard your name in years.
How am I supposed to feel?
Tell me.
13th September (II)
Do I have a right to grieve?
5 years or more -
Must have been
Never close, even then
Just two birds of the same flock
One bird now dead
13th September (III)
A background fixture,
Left behind when I left the room.
Weren't you younger than me?
Or was it a few days older?
Young & pretty & dead
17th September
No matter
How dark
It may be
There is light
There is good
You are loved
23rd September
2016
The year of mean.
Have my tears,
But cariad, I'm gonna sing
Over the heads of abject liars -
Reaching ears that may hear
me
2016
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Tuesday 30 August 2016
The Writer Diaries - Micropoetry, August 2016
Another month faffs off into the everloving history books, and I have more micropoetry for you :)
Hope you like!
(Also for some reason I seem to average four micropoems per month - random.)
16th August
We snipe at each other
Humans become trolls
Keyboards delete humanity for some,
But increase it for others -
Good web knights
22nd August
When I laughed
You thought that I agree.
No.
I didn't want to show
How badly your words
hurt me.
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(Also for some reason I seem to average four micropoems per month - random.)
9th August
My love, your hope.
Hearts tried to speak,
Yet never spoke.
16th August
We snipe at each other
Humans become trolls
Keyboards delete humanity for some,
But increase it for others -
Good web knights
20th August
Speed through a red light.
Go on. Go ahead.
But the flowers tied to that tree?
They're a warning,
Don't take them as a challenge.
22nd August
When I laughed
You thought that I agree.
No.
I didn't want to show
How badly your words
hurt me.
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Wednesday 27 July 2016
The Writer Diaries - Micropoetry, July 2016
If you read this blog and/or my Twitter account a lot, you might know that I like to dabble aimlessly in micropoetry.
Micropoetry is basically poetry in the length of a tweet. Which is awesome, no?
So, without further ado, here's the micropoetry I wrote in July (which is hopefully a little more up-beat than a lot of my micropoetry has been in recent months!)
12th July
I'm fragile glass,
Can you take
Conflicting truths,
And believe
Both truths are real?
14th July
I know
It's never easy.
Just once
I wish
so hard.
18th July
You still don't get it
I'm not like you -
never was.
You're all made of sunshine,
but honey, I'm not.
I'm starlight,
I'm the stars.
21st July
Fingers dance across the keyboard
Pull the letters into the beat
Pirouette into a woven textile
Heart strings pulled along to the beat
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Monday 27 June 2016
The Writer Diaries - Micropoetry, June 2016
Here we are my dearest nerdlets! The little scraps of micropoetry that I've written this month, all wrapped up neat 'n' tidy in a blogpost!
(They're kind of sad poems... sorry about that! In my defence, more than one was written in reaction to various things going around me, and in the country in general, when I wrote them.)
8th June
(They're kind of sad poems... sorry about that! In my defence, more than one was written in reaction to various things going around me, and in the country in general, when I wrote them.)
Goodbye little bird,
I promise I loved you
I promise I cared.
Goodbye little bird -
You would've been spared
11th June
Empty shop, empty shop, empty shop.
Reduced bank hours,
Downgraded post office,
One train an hour.
Empty shop, empty shop, empty shop.
15th June
The sky is crying -
It throws down its tears,
So we can know,
That it cries too.
16th June
A bright light burned out today
As it left it lit the way -
Said love not hate is what I say,
Hatred will not win the day
#jocox
23rd June
You think you know me.
How I wish that were true.
You claim to know me.
But I know you.
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Monday 30 May 2016
The Writer Diaries: Micropoetry - May 2016
Just a couple of micropoetry poems for you this month - clearly I've not been in an overly poetry-ish mood.
(Just as a reminder - this is the micropoetry that clutters up my Twitter profile over the course of the month. I stick it here because otherwise I'll use it in the stream of tweets-and-such.)
Hopefully the quality makes up for the quantity (a girl can be overly-optimistic and hope, right?)
Anyhow, these are my four little brain-creatures - see what you think:
8th May
Oh but I did see you.
You never noticed me, did you?
Again and again I saw you.
You never saw me.
11th May
The stars are there -
You can't cover them;
They're still there.
You blocked out your shine.
But I'm light. I'm a star. In the dark.
23rd May
My heart is hammering
for attention.
At least I know,
that it's still beating.
Still here.
23rd May
They gave her to the birds, the moon, love -
They did not know
Her names were more than words.
Names gave her away
(Just as a reminder - this is the micropoetry that clutters up my Twitter profile over the course of the month. I stick it here because otherwise I'll use it in the stream of tweets-and-such.)
Hopefully the quality makes up for the quantity (a girl can be overly-optimistic and hope, right?)
Anyhow, these are my four little brain-creatures - see what you think:
8th May
Oh but I did see you.
You never noticed me, did you?
Again and again I saw you.
You never saw me.
11th May
The stars are there -
You can't cover them;
They're still there.
You blocked out your shine.
But I'm light. I'm a star. In the dark.
23rd May
My heart is hammering
for attention.
At least I know,
that it's still beating.
Still here.
23rd May
They gave her to the birds, the moon, love -
They did not know
Her names were more than words.
Names gave her away
But she gave herself
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Saturday 30 April 2016
The Writer Diaries: Micropoetry April 2016
A reminder, my dear blog-readers that micropoetry is something that I came across on Twitter, and dutifully dived into with little to no thought.
March was my first 'Writer Diaries' micropoetry post - where I essentially stick all the little bits and bobs of micropoetry I've written in the month into one blogpost, so that it's not lost forever in the mire of my Twitter feed.
Much less micropoetry from li'l old me this month, though.
I guess that's what happens when my method is essentially:
31st March
Not for the first time,
She wondered
Why they would make a girl of ink,
Into flesh and bone...
5th April
But surely you knew this before?
That she liked to watch the transient
Fade into decay
While celebrating and mourning the same?
5th April
My Shadow Man -
I dread the day
When you shadow another.
Am I your Shadow Girl?
20th April
You thought my spark had gone out
Hell no,
I'm a wildfire -
And I still burn
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March was my first 'Writer Diaries' micropoetry post - where I essentially stick all the little bits and bobs of micropoetry I've written in the month into one blogpost, so that it's not lost forever in the mire of my Twitter feed.
Much less micropoetry from li'l old me this month, though.
I guess that's what happens when my method is essentially:
- have random phrases going round and round my head
- write them down (usually directly into the Tweet box)
- head is now free of random phrases (woo!)
31st March
Not for the first time,
She wondered
Why they would make a girl of ink,
Into flesh and bone...
5th April
But surely you knew this before?
That she liked to watch the transient
Fade into decay
While celebrating and mourning the same?
5th April
My Shadow Man -
I dread the day
When you shadow another.
Am I your Shadow Girl?
20th April
You thought my spark had gone out
Hell no,
I'm a wildfire -
And I still burn
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Wednesday 30 March 2016
The Writer Diaries: Micropoetry - March 2016
So, I came across micropoetry when faffing around on Twitter... and me being me, I kind of dove right in there.
Of course, then I figured out that since I tend to write directly into the tweet box (I know that's not normally how it's done but meh, that's the way I roll sometimes,) I was seriously in danger of losing the random bits and pieces of micropoetry I throw onto Twitter in the general clutter of my timeline/profile page/whatever it is you call it on Twitter.
Just to keep something of a record of my random writings then, I figured it'd be a good idea to collate them once a month into a Micropoetry Wrap-up type-thingummy.
Here's what I wrote in March (and one day in February,) -
February 29th
I think my heart is breaking darling
but I don't know why
every time I refresh the page the words remain
March 3rd
#MotherEarthsLastWords
Were ones of regret.
She gave her children everything
And they never loved her.
She still loves them.
March 4th
The Truth? The Truth is
That you never knew.
Every breath in my lungs?
It was for you.
March 8th
We still face
Obvious & subtle discrimination
Major & minor inequalities
Every day,
Needing to scream - this is 2016!
March 11th
do this
do that
end up being judged
whatever you do
just the way things go
March 12th
tomorrow I will see you
I wonder if you'll recognise
the one you left behind to die
guess I'm stronger than you thought
March 13th
do you feel sometimes
like people need to learn
that there are other people in this world too?
March 17th
Hello, my dear Shadow Man!
Yes, I love you still -
Though I can't see my Shadow Man,
I know he's with me still.
March 18th
I asked for your#heart,
You told me no.
Don't go, dear Shadow Man,
Please don't go.
March 28th
I throw words out into the dark
Like tiny fireflies
Hoping to spread light
March 29th
I love you, dear stranger,
Just for being you.
Wherever you may be,
You may count on the love
Of a stranger like me
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Of course, then I figured out that since I tend to write directly into the tweet box (I know that's not normally how it's done but meh, that's the way I roll sometimes,) I was seriously in danger of losing the random bits and pieces of micropoetry I throw onto Twitter in the general clutter of my timeline/profile page/whatever it is you call it on Twitter.
Just to keep something of a record of my random writings then, I figured it'd be a good idea to collate them once a month into a Micropoetry Wrap-up type-thingummy.
Here's what I wrote in March (and one day in February,) -
February 29th
I think my heart is breaking darling
but I don't know why
every time I refresh the page the words remain
March 3rd
Were ones of regret.
She gave her children everything
And they never loved her.
She still loves them.
March 4th
The Truth? The Truth is
That you never knew.
Every breath in my lungs?
It was for you.
March 8th
We still face
Obvious & subtle discrimination
Major & minor inequalities
Every day,
Needing to scream - this is 2016!
March 11th
do this
do that
end up being judged
whatever you do
just the way things go
March 12th
tomorrow I will see you
I wonder if you'll recognise
the one you left behind to die
guess I'm stronger than you thought
March 13th
do you feel sometimes
like people need to learn
that there are other people in this world too?
March 17th
Hello, my dear Shadow Man!
Yes, I love you still -
Though I can't see my Shadow Man,
I know he's with me still.
March 18th
I asked for your
You told me no.
Don't go, dear Shadow Man,
Please don't go.
March 28th
I throw words out into the dark
Like tiny fireflies
Hoping to spread light
March 29th
I love you, dear stranger,
Just for being you.
Wherever you may be,
You may count on the love
Of a stranger like me
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