John Donne’s (1572 – 1631) fabulous poem for St Lucy’s day, “being the shortest day” seems harder to find online in its original spelling, so I thought I’d preserve it here. TIS the yeares midnight, and it is the dayes, Lucies, who scarce seaven houres herself unmaskes, The Sunne is spent, and now his flasks Send [...]
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Diary of a Passive Aggressive by Ian D Smith I regret letting my neighbour Use my drive For his pile Of bricks and sand. Three days later His slaves had built a pyramid: “Ten minutes,” he said. And when I went inside He’d cultivated my land And filled my cupboards With power tools, still running. [...]
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My rival Ed Reardon was back on Radio 4 last night. Must be short of money. His accurate damnation of the dying world of publishing, his rejection slips, “Where did you find this address?” and Cheltenham. What a joke. I went to Cheltenham you know. Not the girls school, the College of Arts and Technology. A [...]
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His explanation was That when his neighbour came to the door The man attacked him with a phone. So he defended himself With a karate chop— That was how his neighbour’s phone Came to be smashed on the floor. At the station CID pushed him round the cells With a truncheon in his ribs, Took [...]
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I just posted a new podcast show. I put this show together around the two poems I’ve had published at Surprising Stories.com, and Bewildering Stories.com: The Aura Seekers, and The Righteous Wrong. I wrote them back in May. The Aura Seekers is all about self-centered people who think a lot of themselves. The Righteous Wrong [...]
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Two great ezines I love: Surprising Stories edited by John Thiel, and Bewildering Stories edited by Don Webb. They’ve just published some of my poems. They are: The Aura Seekers (June 07 version) The Aura Seekers (May 07 Version) The Righteous Wrong I am pleased with the May 07 version of the Aura Seekers, but [...]
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In show 42, I play some great new songs from Myspace: Snow Globe and Take One by Jimmy G, Some Things Will Never Change, and Collide by Ayewrite, Natchoongi Breaked Dub Rmx ft Salman Ahmad by Antony Raijekov from ccMixter.org. Poetry: I read The Insurance Claim by Peter Asher from Poetrymonthly.com. I read my bridge [...]
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I was setting out To write a poem From a simple idea That came from bombardment With images each day- Shoelaces. Were the victims thinking When they tied them that morning- Just another day? But then I realised I had a moral purpose. Should a poet have a moral purpose? Or should it [...]
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…Are of imagination all compact. In 2000 my time working in huge IT corporations was over although I didn’t know it. I wanted to do an MA in Creative Writing, and go it alone in the world of poetry. I’d been writing a lot of poetry since 1990, and by the mid nineties I had [...]
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