salida
ausgang
uscita
sortie
saida
video
Carrot and Stick Haiku
Tilting at windmills
Donkey’s oats were carrot sticks
Leading me onwards
A Short(ish) Poem (with vaguely related YouTube link and hurriedly thrown together Oliver! meme)
does poetry homogeny
create dull monotony
like a bowl of grey gruel
or boring school rules?
if / maybe less is snore
please sir, give me more
so rich and so fruity
like juicy Luci Watusi
a high word count
or a low word count?
it doesn’t much matter
which side you’ve buttered
as long as it’s tasty
not cold lumpy gravy
but it’s time I must stop
before this all turns to slop
and I’m tempted to go on
and on and on
and on
and
I know, it could have been shorter!
The Old Man and the Sea
I visited Ernest Hemingway’s house on Key West last year and bought a fridge magnet as a souvenir. It didn’t make the fridge but has instead attached itself to the shelf bracket next to my writing desk. I have reblogged this post from artist and writer Luke Otley because he has done such a great job with the likeness. The quote on the fridge magnet reads “Good writing is true writing…” The same can be applied to portraiture. If you agree why not pop over and give Luke’s drawing a like. Here’s my fridge magnet and Luke’s Daily Sketch.
And by complete coincidence a friend posted a link to this beautiful paint-on-glass animated version of The Old Man and the Sea on Facebook today. It was made in 1999 by Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov. All these coincidences are making me feel like I am in some sort of weird inspiration loop.
My attempt at Hemingway. Nice to be drawing again after moving into a new place. A3, Charcoal
Good Vibrations / Robot Love
…..the imaginary world of robot love making……………………………………………………………………..
The Tempests of Time (video)
(a short video taken on a boat trip off Gran Canaria using the words from my recently posted Tempests of Time poem)
