A helping hand from across the seas It is amazing how many generous people there are out there in this world of chaos. I discovered a number of them in the online poetry community. I had just started to get into a writing groove, after thirty plus years of abstaining from poetry writing, when theContinue reading “Distant Connections”
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Out of this world
The Aliens and I received a book. It was so good to receive the first hard copy proof of my book. Despite what the title of this blog says I did not receive the book from out of space, although my Alien friends may add some fuel for conspiracy theorists. I did actually write allContinue reading “Out of this world”
Two Timing
Taking two perspectives to a prompt Prompts are a great way to stimulate the writing experience. And there are so many out there. Here on WordPress, Instagram, Threads, a thing called X formerly called something else and Facebook to name but a few. The amount of prompts that are posted every day is quite impressive.Continue reading “Two Timing”
Poetry in motion
Spiralistic In this day of social media and the importance of the visual spectrum it was only a matter of time before poetry started to be embellished by accompanying images and video. There have been many discussions about the value of this, and I have certainly had a few.There are those, often labelled purists, whoContinue reading “Poetry in motion”
Premonition
Seeing into the future I often ask myself what would it be like to look into the future? To time travel with our mind. But then again what if we could? Would we have the ability to change our future, how much of our lives is predetermined? We often already have snapshots of the futureContinue reading “Premonition”
What goes into a poetry book
Words, words, words So the manuscript of my poetry book is finally ready. It has been a long process with much deliberation over the content and design. However, the building blocks of a poetry book are the words, and there are lots of them. There are many stories to tell about Old & Unwise –Continue reading “What goes into a poetry book”
Every End Has A Beginning
That first poem The first poem I remember writing was about the poetry of Robert Morgen. It was a homework assignment and we had to write a page discussing some of his work. I must admit I didn’t feel like writing a whole page of prose so I came up with the bright idea ofContinue reading “Every End Has A Beginning”
Stephen Buttigieg - Words 