During the Rebecca Riots, men from South Wales wore the stove pipe hat and Welsh maids outfit as an act of defiance. Where is that spirit now?
Category Archives: Poetry
Ghost- Twenty Word Tuesday
This is a twenty word Tuesday piece based on Bulbul’s prompt- Ghost. Like smoke slipping through his fingers, he reached for something unobtainable – too late- too far- too tender to even touch, Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels
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Electric – Twenty Word Tuesday
This weeks prompt from Bulbul for Twenty Word Tuesday is Electric. She was electric, elected, and eclectic… exuberant, eccentric, and elastic in an ecstatic, static, tacit and ecclesiastic sort of way, Photo by ARUNODHAI VINOD from Pexels Like what you read, please subscribe to updates below!
Oblique
She sliced slanting glances silently reproaching him although she said something close to nothing no louder than a vacant whisper.
Rejuvenation- Twenty Word Tuesday
Today’s Twenty Word Tuesday based on Bulbul’s prompt is – Rejuvenation Slowly all of yesterday’s shadows melted away and he was able to feel with the fullness of his soul again.
Hiding
This is a piece based on a Twenty Word Tuesday prompt from Bulbul. The Prompt is ‘Hiding’ All the words that were never said silently clung to the air as he closed his eyes one last time. Photo by Mat Reding from Pexels
Butterfly Effect- Twenty Word Tuesday
Here’s this week’s Twenty-word Tuesday based on Bulbul’s prompt. Today the prompt is Butterfly Effect “The smallest stones” he whispered. “make the biggest waves.” His soft voice echoed like thunder cutting violently through the night. Photo by Emiliano Arano from Pexels
Llanelli Via Yorkshire
Llanelli Via Yorkshire is a poem about coming home- written as part of a People Speak Up session. Image of Llanelli from oldukphotos.com Bored in tin towns with thin frowns gathered gossips in small towns small minds everyone knows your name knows your shame for some unknown reason the opposite of cheers I want toContinueContinue reading “Llanelli Via Yorkshire”
Spaces
The Spaces Between Billions of atoms building blocks cram-packed into nothing into silent gaps into pauses once they were everything and will be again forever and never. Amen Making Space I’ll shut up – so you can speak I’ll budge up – so you can sit I’ll make space- so you can be We cannotContinueContinue reading “Spaces”
Writing Collaboration #19 -Echoes
I heard the words that [passed away in the growing void echo- please stay
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Guest Post- Pilgrimage of a Garden Chair
I’m sharing something a little different today- something which is not my own work. I’d like to showcase the talents of Anisha in the first-ever guest post on this site! Hoping to see some of Anisha’s work on The Finest Example soon! If you’d like to get involved either guest posting here, or providing workContinueContinue reading “Guest Post- Pilgrimage of a Garden Chair”
Baseline
I’ve recently started taking some new medication called Abilify to stabilise my moods. Because I can go from one extreme to the other quite rapidly, I need something that holds me in the centre. I’m now finding out what my baseline actually feels like. Baseline. Devoid of the funk of a Bootsy Collins fretboard exploration.ContinueContinue reading “Baseline”
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Spoken Word Saturday #2
As part of this month’s Peoplespeakup Spoken Word Saturday lockdown non-gathering I submitted a video of me reading “You can believe what you want but it doesn’t make it the truth” I’d love it if you checked it out. PeopleSpeakUp is a Llanelli-based social arts, health and well-being enterprise. They run story-telling groups and hostContinueContinue reading “Spoken Word Saturday #2”
That’s When I See You
Here’s a very short poem called “That’s when I see you” that I wrote for this week’s Peoplespeakup. I’m not a very good listener. I am not very good at paying attention. But it is a skill that I want to learn. How good are you at seeing and hearing other people? What advice wouldContinueContinue reading “That’s When I See You”
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The Invisible Strings
The Invisible Strings Here’s a very short poem that I wrote in a PeopleSpeakUp Zoom workshop today. It’s a bit different from my normal style. I hope you all enjoy it! I wonder many things like- how does the moon hide the invisible strings to pull the tide? Or- how the great sky runs onContinueContinue reading “The Invisible Strings”
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Cyclothymia
There. is. nothing. Hours. days. weeks. Nothing. Thoughtless voids of calming drought. Scratching. Nothing. Scratching. Scratching at the words that flow fast and free bouncing joy from the skies the rainbow the line at the edge of forever. Sonic with invincibility. I’m the infinite lives hack. My thoughts are so strong you cannot touch meContinueContinue reading “Cyclothymia”
Flashback Friday #7 – Dreaming of Walls
Dreaming of Walls It’s been a while since I last posted a Flashback Friday, however, buoyed by the fact that in the last 48 hours I’ve had more page-views than in the whole of April combined (hello and thank you, new followers!!) I thought I’d share some of my older work. I have recently beenContinueContinue reading “Flashback Friday #7 – Dreaming of Walls”
Nowhere More Familiar
Nowhere More Familiar There is nowhere more familiar than 96 pixels per inch — than 26 lines of acid ruled, A5 pages, blank. These voids used to fill me with dread — but the blank page this soulless empty is the space I know best Just a quick one-minute poem about my appreciation of theContinueContinue reading “Nowhere More Familiar”
You can believe what you want but it doesn’t make it the truth
You can believe what you want but it doesn’t make it the truth- a poem by peter wyn mosey As the internet creaks with lockdown fueled conspiracy theories with racist connotations, and we have to endure jokes about kung-flu, it really does remind me that you can believe what you want, but it doesn’t makeContinueContinue reading “You can believe what you want but it doesn’t make it the truth”
Spoken Word Saturday
Last week, for Peoplespeakup’s online gathering of Spoken Word Saturday, I had my piece Worn Down Locked Down featured (Go and read it, if you haven’t already done so!). Peoplespeakup is a local social art group that uses spoken word, writing, and storytelling for building community and well-being. I don’t really very often read anythingContinueContinue reading “Spoken Word Saturday”
as i purge my soul.
Here’s a short poem called “as i purge my soul”. As the COVID-19 lockdown has become The Great Spring Clean (that’s how it’ll be referred to in the history books at least) I’ve been purging. I need to do an emotional purge and learn to let negatives go. I’ve been hitting a bit of aContinueContinue reading “as i purge my soul.”
Worn Down Locked Down
What day was it tomorrow? Worn down locked down. We binged on tiger kings and tiger bread so long that I lost time down the back of the sofa along with the TV remote. The sky has been either black or blue. Never grey or white. And now it could be yesterday or it couldContinueContinue reading “Worn Down Locked Down”