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Sometimes I just drop haikus into The Daily Haiku and just leave them there. This week the theme is Joy In Winter. I would have left these haikus there but for circumstance. So, I dive into Facebook and rescue these:

Rescued Haikus

Snowflakes fluttering
In storms like white buterflies
Bringing winter joy

and

Damp,...

We have come to the end of Our Right to Thrive, which has been an opportunity for disabled people to contribute creative expression of our experiences of ableism, attitudinal barriers and discrimination, funded by the Community Fund.

As part of the project culmination, lead artist Ivan Riches has worked with disabled poets Kuli Kohli, Richard Downes, Reanna Valentin...

Originally inspired by Yoko’s Echo Telephone Piece as instructed in Grapefruit. rereading it today I am reminded of an American voice i used to hear that i felt comfortable with even though it only spoke and encouraged obscenities. Nowadays the only voice i hear on the media is Donald Trump’s and his obscenities appal me

The Same Old Voice

So this is my first contrapuntal poem, two poems working with each other to make a third. Playtime was fun. So good to dispose of the clogyrnach which I really struggled with. Contrapuntals deserve more thought and I will look at two ideas meeting together in the coming months. The poetry forms followed now include chanso, cinquain, contrapuntal and as demonstrated in my last...

Revelation. This is my favourite breakfast but not why.

Metaphor

The green pistachio peeps out
From a flooded morass of oats
As cinnamon people stand buffeted
By winding spoon on chopped banana
Better than sweet souls
Of sun kissed Californian raisins
Stuck to the sand of an overheated pan
As I scry a metaphor from breakf...