Category Archives: poetry

Hypno-Vision

Posted on 10 October, 2012 by PoetJanstie

Conscious of a noise. Hypnopompic. There’s something or someone doing something familiar but very vague. No synapses connecting to reason. Feeling a thirst that puts the ‘P’ in pang the ‘D’ in desire the ‘G’ in good deep longing … Continue reading →

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Tribute to a Sheffield Life

Posted on 8 October, 2012 by PoetJanstie

(and a tribute to the loss of special friends) The threads that join two loyal hearts will span an ocean of time, from moments of forgotten art, the echo of hearts’ rhyme transcends the avalanche of pain, that severed threads … Continue reading →

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Too Young to Die

Posted on 29 September, 2012 by PoetJanstie

This is an attempt at a Cento, inspired by Samuel Peralta over at dVerse Poets Pub ‘Form for All’, in which Samuel writes brilliantly about this form as “Collage and the Art of the Cento“. Too Young to Die Forgive … Continue reading →

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An Ekphrastic Experience…

Posted on 25 September, 2012 by PoetJanstie

If this is Ekphrastic, which I’ve heard recently described as one of the ugliest words in the English language, then what follows is the complete irony. It also demonstrates what little fodder poets need to inspire them to feats of … Continue reading →

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For dVerse Poets Pub ‘MeetingTheBar’ – Beautiful Solitude

Posted on 21 September, 2012 by PoetJanstie

Claudia Schoenfeld is hosting ‘MeetingTheBar’ this week over at the dVerse Poets Pub. The subject this week is Beautiful Solitude. Claudia extols the virtue of solitude and asks us to compose a poem about it. I hope I’ll be forgiven … Continue reading →

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Collaboration …

Posted on 9 September, 2012 by PoetJanstie

Originally posted on Musings and Smatterings:
Decline By John Anstie When you have given all, then lost, is this the colour of blame? The love that drips from your sweet lips and drowns someone in shame. When young, their hue…

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Posted on 8 September, 2012 by PoetJanstie

Originally posted on Musings and Smatterings:
Prompt really gave us food for poetic thought. Enjoy! by Jaqueline Dick @Fumanchucat And who are you, to condemn me because I choose not to reside in your world of reality. My mystical magic…

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A Tribal Collaboration – from the GRPG

Posted on 14 August, 2012 by PoetJanstie

Originally posted on Musings and Smatterings:
One prompt, six poets, lots of fun 😀 Boris Craig Morris Boris, Let dance your inner Morris Let your hair go wild, release your inner child Grab a stick, some bells and a hankie…

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All White Then Black

Posted on 10 July, 2012 by PoetJanstie

(for the fifty-two who lost their lives on 7th July 2005 and for many more than seven hundred, who live on with their scars) He took a seat and let the blond girl stand, and thought about his selfishness, but … Continue reading →

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Elegy for an Unborn Child

Posted on 15 June, 2012 by PoetJanstie

The pain struck like an arrow through her heart it seared, not in her abdomen, but went deep into boundless space that was her soul and crushed the core of her maternity. Her eyes were opened wide like deep, dark … Continue reading →