Tag: poems

  • Words

    This week I have been mostly writing a novel. It’s a piece of work I started in 2007 and has been mostly dormant over the past couple of decades with occasional bursts of inspiration. I had managed about 14,000 words and reckon it was about half-finished when I resumed this week. We’re now up to…

  • unnursery rhymes

    I have been re-writing some nursery rhymes to make them more topical but probably not suitable for children: mind you, were the originals okay? What do you think? Is it all a bit unnursery? Three blind mice, three blind mice. See how they run, see how they run. They all ran after the farmer’s wife…

  • potery (sic)

    At the recent conference for ministers of larger churches I was introduced to the American Slam Poet Taylor Mali. I like potery and I have written a few pomes in my time (you can see them on the ‘pomes what I have writ’ section of this site) but I was really inspired by him so…

  • Story

    A brief poetic bloggage from a coffee shop. If yesterday is history And tomorrow’s a mystery Today is His story That He blends with my story Be blessed, be a blessing