worms in my mind

title
date written
Beyond Marsden Words – Session 1, 17th November 2020
5th December 2021 #Pennings
5th November - 7th December, 2017
27th November 2018 (https://prosodyofthewode.wordpress.com/2018/11/27/unleash-the-beast-a-poem/)
30th March 2021
10th November 2021 #Howl
[ 17th September 2019 – #5DaysofEros 3 day one, the erotics of beginning ]
7th March 2016 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153785429125660&set=a.468886660659.265222.578125659&type=3, edited and completed 4th June 2016, SG21 - Period Piece
22nd February 2015, prompted by the fragility of perception, this was my first ever attempt at an erotic pome 🙂
[ 13th June 2016 00:23 ]
4th December 2023
8th October 2020 from a photo, and words, posted by @ellielle5 on Insta; also #Pendemic14 celebrate an incredible woman!
21st January 2023
[ 17th April 2015, on a chill Friday night ]
[ 29th February 2016, SG9 - bicycle assumptions - taking things for granted ]
26th December 2020
8th November 2015 at 23:38, 19th November 2015 at 23:15 to and from https://www.facebook.com/jane.burn.5/posts/962316803849348, 20th November 2015 at 23:00, 26th December 2015 at 22:50
[ 28th December 2017 ]
11th April 2016, SG15 - The Ballad of Squiffy Gnu
2nd July 2016 - Nestival Carole 6 - return to a town little known
4th September 2020 Erotics of Water #5DaysofEros 4.4
29th October 2018
[ 2nd July 2016, a Hull poem, first draft prompted by Sally Evans at Nestival ]
[ 28th September 2016, revised 20th September 2017 :) ]
3rd March 2021 #Pendemic 39 https://www.flickr.com/photos/rielax/2686449036/
[ 14th August 2017 https://www.facebook.com/perlmonger/posts/10155328109055660?pnref=story I love the sea, and I love this poem from Alice Smith; one day I'd like to walk that Holderness coastline, Barmston to Brid to Bempton, with her, and not say a word ]
27th May 2019, 17th June 2019
20th September 2020 Erotics of Air #5DaysofEros 4.2
21st March 2021 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2932512030407182&id=100009452420212
2nd June 2018 – Squiffy Gnu alphabet challenge #11 /htt Rick Summat
25th September 2020 SG 2020.20 A beginning and an end
[ 14th April 2017, prompted by Jinny Peberday's “Lovespoon” on OwP #78 ]
2nd November 2021 #Pennings
[ 22nd August 2016, SG34 - Celebrity ]
17th December 2014
[ 31st March 2017, from https://www.facebook.com/swingerella13/posts/10212507754913732, restructured, rewritten into a poem 12th July 2017 ]
25th-27th December 2014, Three from Christmas in Barnard Castle
4th February 2016, SG2016.5 prompt "Short Walks in English Towns"
10th November 2021 #Howl describing colour to a blind person
14th April 2020 #pendemic eight; blessings 💚💛 to Sara Zaltash
8th September 2015; after a night. into a morning, of avoiding an endless, dry, unproductive cough
27th January 2024
20th April 2021 #Pennings
[ 18th August 2016 ]
10th July 2022, prompted by Robert Chancey's poem, "Because I don't know"
19th June 2020 SG 2020.11 Friends and Acquaintances
[ 21st July 2016 (https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=257600547957208&id=100011217948801), revised 15th-22nd December ]
[ 26th July 2016, edited April 2017 and April 2019 ]
26th December 2023 from https://www.instagram.com/p/C1VOkdzO_CY/
[ 8th January 2016, Squiffy Gnu 2016 week 2, prompt: ekphrasis ]
[ 17th March 2016, SG11 - elements (with bonus 70s prog reference :) ) ]
19th September 2024 tangentially triggered reading Jane Burn's “The University of the Self #33”. The reference in the first couplet is, I think, obvious
9th August 2024
[ 16th August 2015, slight edit 18th March 2016 ]
23rd September 2015 - softly the hinge of the gyre
[ 13th February 2019 – #5DaysofEros day three, explore your senses ]
30th November 2015. in response to a challenge to write a *cheerful* poem!
5th March 2020 from Hull Poetry & Creative Writing Group
23rd May 2018 – Squiffy Gnu alphabet challenge #10
12th June 2020 #pendemix 23 “Write about someone you know as if they were a season”
[ 6th December 2016, 2nd March 2019 ]
2nd May 2021 #Pennings
2nd May 2021 #Pennings
23rd September 2017 I wrote that I felt better than I did a year ago, on the approach of another birthday? Well, yes I did, and in large almost certainly do, but right now, tonight, I'm hurting again. Nothing new of course; just *really* wishing there were someone in my life I could snuggle up with right now; someone who actually wanted to hold me, touch my skin. But there isn't. People with whom I can be, talk, even talk with about this; yes. That they (you) are there is probably why I'm still here at all, but alone in body I remain, and as I age, if there were any vanishingly small chance of that changing, that will be sublimating into vapour blown dissipated into the autumn air. Love I have, lust I can live without, but physical isolation is hard.
21st September 2020 #5DaysofEros 4.3 Erotics of Fire
6th October 2017, with a snippet from 4th
29th December 2020 #Pendemic 32
2nd July 2016 - Nestival Carole 1 - found in my stolen bag
23rd January 2021
3rd July 2016 - Nestival Sarah L Dixon's exercise - touching sea-worn stones
29th May 2019 #5DaysofEros 2 day one, the erotics of nature
11th April 2020 #pendemic four
9th June 2018 – Squiffy Gnu alphabet challenge #13
22nd April 2020 #pendemic eleven
30th May 2016, SG22 - doodling
5th September 2022 Fleassy Malay writing prompts September 2022 #1 A Tight Grip
18th September 2020 Erotics of Earth #5DaysofEros 4.1
[ 20th March 2017, inspired by a poem by Richard Gammon, title courtesy a typo from Darrell Shand :) ]
30th October 2016 - https://www.facebook.com/perlmonger/posts/10154414028265660
6th, 26th October 2017
5th December 2021 #Pennings Words: Tree frost reindeer candle party singing fat holly baubles berries
21st March 2021 Pennings - a census question or answers, a game as a metaphor
6th April 2017
17th August 2015; awake at 4:20am
[ 10th February 2019 – #5DaysofEros day one, explore the hunger ]
1st June 2019 #5DaysofEros 2 day four, the erotics of heartbreak
31st May 2019 #5DaysodEros 2 day three, the erotics of the nody
17th May 2018 – Squiffy Gnu alphabet challenge #9
3rd December 2011, abandoned unfinished until 17th January 2016 and SG2016.3
23rd January 2022 #Pennings
22nd April 2020 #pendemic twelve
22nd July 2022 (17th November 2020)
27th October 2021 The Notyou: Finding Self as Othervoice, Jane Burn
15th December 2017
2nd February 2018
14th February 2018
originally written, words and music, in (I think!) 1989; returned to 31st March 2017 for many long overdue edits and five extra lines, including one inspirited by Alice Smith
21st February 2017
31st July 2024 Thanks to Feline for the gift of a re-imagined Kintsugi, the phrase “the lowliest of metals” is from Peter Blegvad’s song, “Gold”
25th February 2019 – #5DaysofEros day five, explore your memories
7th August 2016, SG32 - Winners and Losers
11th February 2024
20th February 2016, SG8: "leftovers"
31st May 2021 #Pennings
1st June 2024 (from a dream, night before)
27th May 2024 with thanks to Fleassy Malay for the image of standing next to (that part of) myself
12th February 2017 wilfully obscure for those not ageing geeks…
7th June 2015; prompted, I'm afraid, by me feeling my bum this morning as I was getting out of bed. Sorry!
23rd May 2018, 5th June 2018 – Squiffy Gnu alphabet challenge #12, from a commentary to an Alice Smith vid (https://www.facebook.com/perlmonger/posts/10156067382890660)
29th September 2021 Howl
10th June 2016, Sometimes decades old memories return as clear, clearer, than what's happened today
8th October 2018
15th July 2015
12th July 2021 https://www.facebook.com/groups/171769170076345/posts/893752167878038/?comment_id=896095194310402
8th August 2024 from a prompt from @closestghost https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-YdJnhyZf_/
2nd June 2020 #pendemic sixteen
16th March 2020 htt Michael Moorcock for the image
[ 18th August 2017 ]
[ 27th December 2017 ]
21st April 2020 #pendemic ten
[ 11th, 21st, 23rd March 2018 – Squiffy Gnu alphabet challenge #6 ]
25th January 2020 from Hull Poetry & Creative Writing Group
[ 21st November 2016, for Spoon on the Tracks ]
[ 14th May 2016, SG20 - opposites ]
[ 12th February 2017 ]
[ 5th March 2016, SG10 - palimpsest ]
25th January 2020 Hull Poetry & Creative Writing Group
15th July – 4th September 2023
24th December 2019
14th April 2015; revised 15th
20th September 2019 – #5DaysofEros 3 day three, the erotics of power
[ 16th April 2017, https://www.facebook.com/swingerella13/activity/10212678562943826 ]
[ 29th August 2016, SG35 - Puppets ]
27th December 2018
19th March 2022 Ten minute set in The Quiet Compere Tour 2022 - First Online event
20th April 2021 #Pennings Paul Farley
[ 27th October 2017 ]
[ 7th July 2015; wilfully obscure I suppose, though some will get the feline reference, some the Morris one, some the SFnal one; perhaps somebody even all three. The rest of the somewhat packed content can stay private ]
18th May 2021 #Pennings
RBF
[ 5th June 2016, SG23 - Pipe Dream. Revised 15th August 2016 ]
[ 15th April 2016, SG16 - Reflections ]
27th June 2017 – memories resurfaced on Clough Road, cycling home past potholes
21st January 2023
12th January 2019 (SG3.1 – “random” https://futurism.com/darpa-wants-conscious-robots-insect-brains/)
[ 17th June 2016 ]
10th April 2020 #pendemic three
[ 26th August 2016 ]
[ 2nd June 2019 #5DaysofEros 2 day five, the erotics of taste ]
Beyond Marsden Words – Session 1, 17th November 2020
[ 19th February 2016. SG7: "secrets" - Sometimes secrets are hidden only by a shared unspoken agreement not to expose them ]
[ 22nd February 2018 ]
[ 5th August 2015, prompted by Jo Bell mentioning #TwitterPoetryClub - this was 140 characters with title and hashtag. Subsequently retitled and revised slightly, and 5 characters longer, so the hashtag can go (then extended yet by a line a year later; blame inflation, and now Twitter has bloated too) ]
27th July 2015 [ Acknowledgement: the first fit being an amalgam of Brain Aldiss' brain sliver embedded tuna in “Shards”, and William Gibson's junkie dolphin in “Johnny Mnemonic” ]
[ 25th March 2015, revised 27th March 2017 ]
15th March 2019 7th April 2019 5th November 2020
8th December 2022
7th March 2021 Pennings https://www.facebook.com/sarah.l.dixon.31/posts/10160645963502388
26th February 2024 – ace of wands; prince of swords; star #17
24th October 2024
sua
21st January 2024
6th November 2014
13th March 2017 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155004906495396&set=a.10150281077705396.381127.629930395&type=3
24th and 25th August 2015; the subject came to mind in the night, I've no idea why
tea
26th August 2016
15th October 2018 prompted by https://www.amaryllispoetry.co.uk/2018/10/a-poem-by-ron-riekki.html
9th April 2015; prompted on the edge of sleep by the song, which in turn came into my mind from… who knows? Revised 27th March 2017
3rd July 2016 - Nestival Sarah 1 - a line from Ciarán Hodgers' "Counting Monsters"
7th May 2016, SG19 - food. Purple fishcakes were real, btw; one of the processing plants here in Hull, I don't recall which, had a food dye accident in the late 70s. The resultant unsaleable product was sold to Hull Prison
15th June 2021 #Pennings
13th January 2020 – Fight Fire with Words, day one
4th December 2020
12th May 2016, prompted by https://www.facebook.com/roz.kaveney/posts/10154145489624935
30th July 2016, SG31 - Off the Coast of ME
30th May 2019 #5DaysofEros 2 day two, the erotics of boredom
9th Aoril 2020 #pendemic day two
20th January 2024
[ 4th September 2016, SG36 - Doctor Gnu ]
25th April 2017 https://www.facebook.com/perlmonger/posts/10154964159055660
28th November 2015
6th June 2016
3rd August 2017
8th February 2020 from Hull Poetry & Creative Writing Group
4th November 2014
5th March 2017, a (very) belated SG25
12th August 2016, SG29 - Talk to the animals
9th March 2020, 27th August 2024
26th February 2018, an old tale retold
13th February 2022 #5DaysofEros 3 day five, the erotics of ending
[ 27th December 2014, Christmas in Barnard Castle ]
18th September 2019 – #5DaysofEros 3 day two, the erotics of hands
23rd January 2022 #Pennings what am i made of?
13th April 2020 #pendemic five
1st October 2023 Say what you couldn’t back then
10th November 2021 #Howl instability » greater instability » resolution in order, or chaos
20th February 2019 – #5DaysofEros day four, explore the unsaid
7th September 2019
16th April 2018 10:45
19th October 2014, listening indeed to Oedipus the King at the New Adelphi Club
18th December 2014, extended 3rd December 2015
22nd April 2016
12th February 2019 – #5DaysofEros day two, explore the other
9th May 2017, 19th July 2017
8th October 2016, returned to 12th December. My wasp poem; it's all Wendy Pratt's fault
23rd January 2022 #Pennings
24th August 2015; triggered by "I see you: Tom Daley", and that diving giraffes animation :) – opening added 20th May 2017, from https://www.facebook.com/groups/30495329763/permalink/10155353970624764/?comment_id=10155354397789764&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R1%22%7D, and tweaked further up to 4th July 2017, including a phrase stolen from Charles Johnson! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155186906590660&set=a.474692775659.272901.578125659&type=3&comment_id=10155187594705660
5th April 2016, SG14 - Situation Poetry
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20th June 2022
2nd January 2018
18th July 2016 - SG24, What on Earth is that?
10th January 2021
25th October 2018
18th May 2021 #Pennings, after the final stanza of The World Seems… by Gregory Orr
2nd December 2011, possibly not my first ever poem, but certainly the first I actually wrote down!
3rd October 2019 – #5DaysofEros 3 day four, the erotics of pain
4th April 2020
13th February 2016, SG6: The end of the world as we know it, for Ken
26th December 2018
31st December 2016
17th August 2016, SG33 - Voice
28th March 2018 – Squiffy Gnu alphabet challenge #7
21st September 2020 Erotics of Æther #5DaysofEros 4.5
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