Category Archives: Poems

Water Sound Investment

Posted on October 6, 2019 by colonialist

When sitting on our patio There’s something always on the go: Thanks to the water feature here The sound of trickles rings out clear, And I have tuned it to provide  A really pleasant sound outside; The only problem to … Continue reading →

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Getting in a flap again over a Wordle

Posted on August 26, 2019 by colonialist

Those with reasoning quite lacking in sufficiency, Of the Apartheid flag now rant and rave, Thus demonstrating mental-type deficiency — The Union was where it was meant to wave, But then, these nitwits have no better source of wrath, Than … Continue reading →

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Double Wordle Non- and Little-sense

Posted on August 4, 2019 by colonialist

              1) Absolute Nonsense Sham lift you spray at dawn, Then shimmy down to wrap; Fit choke, call shell on lawn; In corner, scar in gap. 2) Unsuccessful Car Repairs Fit  sham part you … Continue reading →

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Going at Unsteady Gates

Posted on August 4, 2019 by colonialist

                                                                                … Continue reading →

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Communion Wordle; e-mails Absurdle

Posted on July 14, 2019 by colonialist

        No rain; humility will grow; God still listen, only seven round communion plate? Priest sits, old stories to let know — A string of wisdom to change where lies your fate? Though internet would stay, My … Continue reading →

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Poetic Tribute by Eight-Year-Old to her Mother

Posted on May 21, 2019 by colonialist

This unsolicited and unprompted tribute was offered by just-turned-eight Jeneva last night. For the benefit of those challenged in any way by the inventive spelling, here is an edited version: A Poem for my Mommy Your … eyes twinkle from … Continue reading →

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Screened

Posted on April 20, 2019 by colonialist

GloPoWriMo 2019 Day 20 Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that “talks.” Try to write a poem grounded in language as it is spoken – not necessarily the grand, dramatic speech of a monologue or play, … Continue reading →

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Elegy for an Unidentified Companion

Posted on April 18, 2019 by colonialist

GloPoWriMo Day 18 Prompt: today: I’d like to challenge you to write an elegy of your own, one in which the abstraction of sadness is communicated not through abstract words, but physical detail. Out of the very corner of my … Continue reading →

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Wild Words and Feral Tamed.

Posted on April 16, 2019 by colonialist

For GloPoWriMo Day 16 I am ignoring the prompt, and instead am taking  Wordle 399 as the rhyme of the day. Brenda has done the usual fiendish job of steering one inexorably in a certain direction with the choice of words, … Continue reading →

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Talk of Writing Wrongs

Posted on April 15, 2019 by colonialist

GloMoWriMo Day 15 Prompt is as follows: ‘Today, I’d like to challenge you to write your own dramatic monologue.’ I write; but when I write then should I yearn For all to like what I set out? And if they … Continue reading →

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