Stop! Carry On

I am on Easter hols from uni and although I am still up to my ears in work I have made myself stop and take a break from it. I'm still writing poetry. It's impossible to stop doing that, even if it's one line or an idea for a poem.

Tiles on a shop front, Grays Inn Road, London

It has been a relief and a worry to stop. I have no idea how I will find the time to complete all my assignments and get the marks I need but somehow it must be done! My brain needed a breather and I needed to think about other things like planning activities with Sam, paperwork, the garden, and of course some Spring cleaning.

It's been good to stop and reflect on where I am and think about where I want to be next. But not too much. From today I am back on with the studying as well as everything else. I've tried to write about the past this week but I keep deleting what I write. It's fuel for poetry these days. It is done.

Poetry is a great medium for opening up a Pandora's Box of feelings, ideas, insights, observations and taboos, and continues to challenge and inspire me every day.

Love, Love, Love xxx

Less than a minute

How on Earth, in writing can I catch
A walk at lunchtime,
Where in less than a minute I observe
The changing sky, the cold air in my throat,
The grey, damp, paving stones,
My reflection in the windows of the County Court,
Kids wandering past and hearing their talk,
As I hear a pounding drum beat via my ipod,
And think about poetry again and how much I like
The word metonym but I can’t quite remember
What it means,
And how glad I am I made my class and
I must remember to buy that envelope?
The light goes green.
I go.

Beautiful Blogger

A Huge and Heratfelt THANK YOU to Lyn who writes the excellent and inspiring TWO GHOSTS, for honoring me with the Beautiful Blogger Award!

Here's what I have to do when I accept the award: 1. Thank and link to the person who gave me the award...Thank you Lyn- I really appreciate you passing this on to me and I love Two Ghosts!
2. Pass Award on to 7 bloggers I've recently discovered, (more or less), and whom I think are fantastic!! Here goes:

Lupus In Flight

Echoing Out Loud

Sparks in Electrical jelly

Casimira

A Cuban In London

On Music, Maths and Moggies

Poet's Window

3. Contact Bloggers to let them know to pick up Award.

4. State 7 things about myself:

1.I was in a band called Primordia and released three cds on the World Serpent label, which are very rare and seem to be collectors' items these days.

2.I used to love DJing (I'm more of a selector- am crap at mixing!) and ran a club night and put bands on in Stoke Newington for a bit in the late 80s.

3.In 1993 I lived next door to Tommy Steele in a squat.

4. I am a qualified reiki practitioner and an aromatherapy nut.

5. I have a wonky left eye.

6. I studied art history with the Open University.

7. I am allergic to almost everything but live in hope and homeopathy.

Love, Love, Love xxx

Unwanted

Sunday morning on the way to swimming
You stop to look at a Saturday-night-left-behind-on-the-fence-coat.
A girl’s coat with the breast-pocket ripped off and a heart-size hole torn out.
Left behind in the rain, ruined, unwanted.
I think: “I hope she’s ok.”

LucyFurLeaps Gets Peripatetic

I said last week that this blog might metamorphasise but instead it seems to have gone through some sort of asexual reproduction and has reproduced a version of itself on Wordpress.

This is not a mirror image but a blog devoted to my exploration and connection with the world of poetry. I will be posting there regularly and hoping to gain some sort of idea of the shape of things in Poetry-land.
I will still continue to post here with poems and other writing as usual.

I would be grateful if you could take a peek at the new blog. Let me know what you think!



From Glastonbury to Richmond...there are more developments a-foot...

Love xxx

Developing a Teflon Attitude

Time crept ahead
While you continued
Under the assumption
That it was like an insect in amber.

Unchanging, until
The fly buzzed in your ear
Remember where it came from?
It’s full of shit. It always was.

Swat it

New eggs have been laid
Your geography is changed
New maps
And movements.

Writing

I have just looked at all the different options for modules that I can study next year, the last year of my degree. I've made a decision about which ones to take and already I have a couple of ideas for the Creative Writing Special Study. I've said it before and I'll say it again...the more I write, the more I want to write. It is excruciating actually doing it but worth it when it goes well.

As I move through this degree I can see the patterns and obsessions in my writing and there is plenty there to keep me going for as long as I care to continue. My only hope is that I can do justice to it and other people will relate to it.

In the summer this grub of a blog may metamorphasise, grow wings and travel...

Watch this (un)space.