Hour Twelve: Stipulations for receiving

For my last official poem of the day, I followed the prompt. Don’t panic You may feel that there’s not a minute to spare but the moon is not bound by your constraints If you cannot hear her whispers at midnight do not be alarmed…

Hour Eleven: Neither neither nor nor

Where is there left to go when you’re neither neither nor nor? When you’re not allowed a name only a label? When you’re defined by what you (don’t) have instead of who you are? When confronted by the fact of your existence they’d rather you…

(Hour 10) 07.30-08.30am. PROMPT, theme: “praise”

in praise of gareth roi O sweet-toothed gareth roi! you are such a cool boi you wrote a poem of praise despite your brain daze ahead of your time even though it didn’t rhyme who would have thought your popcorn paean would’ve bought thirty minutes…

(Hour 09) 06.30-07.30am. PROMPT, form: “ekphrasis”

lost track i know there’ll be talk among the brotherhood lots of peppy upbeat talk (cos that the sort of eternally optimistic perpetually irritating numnuts they all are) of roads going ever on & journeys of a 1000 miles — but all it means to…

(Hour 08) 05.30-06.30am. PROMPT, form: “pantoum”

gobble love my lolly gobble bliss bombs nut & caramel coated popcorn made by choirs of tripped out angels singing love songs to sugar highs nut & caramel coated popcorn makes my brain oh so slightly dizzy singing love songs to sugar highs with my…

Hour Eight: My stupid obsessions

I hate all the thoughts that keep me awake because my mind refuses to relax taking my body along for the ride long after I have closed my eyes Because my mind refuses to relax I toss and turn and worry and fret and strain…

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