For those of you who didn’t catch the 9/11 special on channel Five last night, Simon Armitage has written a poem to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the World Trade Center atrocity.
Written as the first-person account of a fictional trader near the top of the north tower on that day, it was dramatised by Rufus [...]
‘Do you see me, my love. I am flagging. Flagging.’ – Simon Armitage
How to Get Fired from Apple
An Apple employee gets sacked for his contribution to a talent competition.
Full Story »Training Calligrapher
Trying to train Calligrapher to understand my handwriting.
Full Story »et Uxor inaugurates…
OK, so I’ve decided to move my writing – toast haiku and all – to a new blog. I’ll still appear here, but I think that my tiny poems do tend to get lost amongst the posts and occasional rants that Richard and I have about things… So, they now have a new home. I [...]
Full Story »Invasion
The cat, regal and
haughty, pushes my book and
possesses my lap
Rebellion
recalcitrant toaster
rises up against cleaning -
handle won’t stay down…
Bad morning…
Cremation
toaster settings wait
for unsuspecting wholegrain –
slices all in flames…
Another offering…
morning sunlight peeks
around the curtain. Drifting
scent of toasted grain…
Poetry – but No Toast!
Taking into account the comments from a friend, here is a toast-free posting…
The toast haiku did get me thinking, however, and I unearthed a notebook that I used in university to copy down poems that struck me at the time. What’s incredible is that they all seem to be less than 10 lines (with [...]
