Stats - Day 11

poems written = 18

poems written per day = 1.6364
poems remaining = 32

required poems per day = 1.6842

50PoWriMo - XVIII

free




ten spare minutes
a horn in my hand
and noone in the house?

noodle a scale

then a couple more
and hold

               that top note
til it starts to swirl
and bend it to my will
and the lip-slurred harmonics
leaping like the sparks in a plasma ball
and them i'm away
tearing into the instrument
a flurry of fingers
a confection of notes and noises
an essential scream
responding to my every nuance as my thoughts and fears and joys and things for which there are no words come pouring through like the deluge after a dam is destroyed and each honk and squeal and lick rolls over the end of the last
and i'm dancing
and my feet make their own music
and my lungs are at their limits
and my heart is pounding
and my tongue is a blur
and i ...
      and i ...
            and i ...
                  and i ...
                        and i ...
and i get interrupted by a knock at the door

i would hate to have been my neighbours
but for ten brief minutes
it was great being me

50PoWriMo - XVII

george the parrot



stanley misses you
he put up all those posters
taped round every tree and lamppost
was that really the best photo of you?
(like the missing people on tv
who would hate that they were famous
in badly cropped facebook shots
if they didn't have deeper concerns)
your reflection in the background
seems to have captured you most malevolent side
and yet
the strangely specific time of loss
makes me wonder what happened at the time
i hope you aren't missing
so much as free



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