Rubato – A Sestina and Poetry Challenge

The sestina is evil, having a complicated form based on sixes which is explained further below. I tried this out due to a personal challenge from Crabby, who I will make suffer in return! So this weekends Poetry challenge is to write a sestina. Being really strict, you should have 10 syllables per line, or...

Sing Me – A Poem

While you are wrong and I am right You play in a diminished key To my major melody In a painful cacophony Our notes a loud War cloud   While you are right and I am wrong My minor line coaxes tears While your dominant scale sneers In an assault on the ears Duelling staccato...

Well now that’s just lazy – Part Deux

So here's part two of nothing. I'm still away and letting my WP scheduler post for me. Hopefully I'll come back to hundreds of adoring comments, or at least some sarcastic and bitter ones about how shoddy these two posts have been. Once again, I've got old stuff which you could look at, or you'll have...

Well now that’s just lazy – Part one

Last weekend I had a soiree planned that went all arse-in-the-air because of some falling dampness. This weekend it's actually going to happen - yay! So I won't have time for rants and puff, and will instead schedule two posts with songs on. If this isn't good enough for you - and hey, I understand...

Liebster award – I’m so excited – (why isn’t there a ‘sarcastic’ setting for text?!)

Hey. So I got nominated - but I can kind of accept it because she did it to piss me off, which I respect! I'm still not doing the whole trophy and whatnot thing, but here's the questions answered - I'll update my Great Blogs page tonight (to take combat babe off!... just kidding… you're...

Little Bits Of Soul – A Poem

Little Bits of SoulLittle babies babble on aluminium discsSlivered off, it drifts through the etherA sub-aural hiss. The noise just noise deprived of thisDespite its intangible existence Does it settle on old vinyl, an extra susurrusInto valves and tubes like dust,A sonic spirit incubus Is it vagrant in the air, does it sustainThrough despair does it offer refrain Or...