NaPoWriMo Day 28. Only two more days to go to the end of this year’s NaPoWriMo event. Today’s poem is called The Rules of the Game. The Rules of the Game Two children playing in the street, the boy teases the girl until she gives chase. He runs into a neighbour’s garden, flowers parting underContinue reading “The Rules of the Game”
Category Archives: My Poetry
Second Chance
NaPoWriMo Day 27. Is it really Day 27 already? What will I do with my evenings after Wednesday? Anyway today’s poem is called Second Chance. Second Chance Holding her grandchild for the first time she thinks to herself this is a second chance. Maybe this time, I will do things better. Maybe this time, IContinue reading “Second Chance”
Let me sit by the canal side
NaPoWriMo Day 26. Today’s poem is called Let me sit by the canal side. I am quite fond of a nice canal walk & we have many canals in Birmingham as a result of our industrial heritage. I thought I’d make it extra difficult for myself by writing in rhyming couplets which I have toContinue reading “Let me sit by the canal side”
A Love Quickie
NaPoWriMo Day 25. Today’s poem is a very short one because it is a Haiku poem, inspired by the comedian Frank Skinner who I went to see last night. Frank read out several of his Haiku poems to the audience & it made me think about having a go at one, although I decided notContinue reading “A Love Quickie”
This is how we bond
NaPoWriMo Day 24 and today’s poem is called This is how we bond. This is how we bond. The first time we meet I notice your lips and eyes crease into a smile, your shoulders are loose, your palms open and
From a Mother
NaPoWriMo Day 23 and today’s poem is called From a Mother From a Mother Do not be afraid to walk in this world: you have already earned your place and it is full of possibilities.
The Lady of the Moor
NaPoWriMo Day 22. Today’s poem is inspired by a prompt by NaPoWriMo on day 18 which was to try to write a ruba’i which is a four-line stanza, with a rhyme scheme of AABA. Robert Frost’s famous poem Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening uses this rhyme scheme. Not sure how successful it is but itContinue reading “The Lady of the Moor”
My Magic Box
NaPoWriMo Day 21 and today’s poem is called My Magic Box, after Kit Wright’s The Magic Box. I wrote this some time ago but have reworked it a little so I think I can count it in project NaPoWriMo 2014. My Magic Box I will put into the box the stuff that disappointments are made from,Continue reading “My Magic Box”
The Garden
NaPoWriMo Day 20 and today’s poem is called The Garden The Garden Today I saw children playing in the garden, the one I see as my train pulls into the station; the one that looks empty but not quite abandoned;
Sleepless
NaPoWriMo Day 19 and today’s poem is called Sleepless, actually written at roughly three-thirty this morning. Is the NaPoWriMo thing beginning to get to me I wonder? Sleepless It’s one-thirty in the morning and I’m lying here eyes open trying not to think about things I shouldn’t think about two-thirty in the morning and theContinue reading “Sleepless”
Hazel Ward 