once warm flesh, now cold, stone
remembering, now she was alone
fingers on her skin, tracing, heart racing
opening up, exposed, aching to sing
frozen now, those moments lost
oh how, she had never
wanted it, ever, to
end
(for mara’s poetry101rehab – end)
there was once a young man who flew a kite
who knew that nothing he did was right
he tried, oh he tried, to be heard
it wasn’t until the third
that he saw the light, and knew he was right
(a limerick for mara’s poetry rehab – right)
(and for lucile’s the photo 101 rehab – the clinic)
*shot with nikon d700, 50mm f/1.4 lens and…no editing in any app at all*
do you remember how it felt in november
never a thought given to being a member
of that, most exclusive, club
can you remember, oh that is the rub
eventually, when you think it may
soon be time, to
pay
(for mara’s poetry rehab – second and lucile’s photo rehab)
*shot with nikon d700 with nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens, edited using adobe bridge, photoshop cc and analog efex pro2 with wet plate and double exposure filters applied, not a second to lose*
There was once a grumpy old blogger called Andy
Who thought his photos quite handy
He tried his hand at writing
Struggled with the lighting
And developed a habit by Mond’y.
(for Mara Eastern’s Poetry 101 Rehab opened today for all those poets who participated in WordPress Writing 201 and you, if your inner poet craves release)
(and, in a piece of shameless self promotion, I have chosen to accompany my first contribution with the photos I used to portray my painful poetic progress)
Day 1: Water, Haiku, Simile
Day 2: Journey, Limerick, Alliteration
Day 3: Trust, Acrostic, Internal Rhyme
Day 4: Animal, Concrete Poetry, Enjambment
Day 5: Fog, Elegy, Metaphor
Weekend: Poetry Potluck
Day 6: Hero(ine), Ballad, Anaphora/Epistrophe
Day 7: Fingers, Prose Poetry, Assonance
Day 8: Drawer, Ode, Apostrophe
Day 9: Landscape, Found Poetry, Enumeratio
Day 10: Future, Sonnet, Chiasmus
andy townend 