Poet’s Pledge – 22nd January 2025

Written as reward
Benevolent monarch hands
Meaning to illiterate minions
Clinging onto every word

Posted in advertisement
The philosophical sword
Hangs on a single hair
Virtue is written in sunlight

Submitted to AllPoetry’s ‘An Expression of Yourself’ course – Brevity.
With this assignment, I would like you to use metaphor and simile. Focus on the ordinary but make it something more expansive to where your mind cannot find the outer walls of the images.

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As an extra idea, I also put this through the N+7 machine and used (mostly) the results from N+14

The Monogram Handlers

Written as rhythm
Benevolent monogram handlers
Medic to immigrant misanthropes
Clinging onto every works

Posted in affair
The philosophical synagogue
Happenings on a single half-life
Vision is written in superlative

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Today I’m feeling:

Great, despite less hours of sleep than normal, as the drama from last night involved many phone calls and discussion, past our usual sleep time.

Getting up a little earlier this morning allowed me ample time for exercise and doing that has energised me. I really need to use this as motivation and do it all the time. Even if I’m not losing the weight that I would like my general well-being is very much improved.

I cancelled both my classes today; there is an event on, which I will go and check out mid-morning and then again around 1.30 and I’ll sneak home early because I still haven’t had a chance to check out this guitar pedal that I bought yet.

Health:

Physical: 7
Mental: 8

Today I’m grateful for:

Nicha and August for playfully dancing with me when the school band was playing a song they knew. It almost felt like a celebration of them ending their childhood as they prepare to move up to grade 10 in May.

The best thing about today was:

Hanging out with my students, old and current and enjoying the atmosphere in school as we all watched beauty pageants and school bands perform.

I even got a little more exercise as I played football with some of my grade 8 boys, though to be honest, I was starting to feel old and stiff as I was kicking the ball around.

What was out of your control today and how did you handle it?

Hayden tried to call me a couple of days ago when I was waiting at the hospital and I hadn’t remembered to call him back. Out in my room, I saw a message from Bronwyn saying that they are going to put their cat Casper to sleep as he is sick with something and not eating.

I called Hayden and he is pretty sad about it. I commiserated with him and we spent a good half hour catching up on both our news. He was a bit more cheerful by the end.

It had only been ten minutes before that Amy and I were talking about being prepared for both our old boys to go too.

Something I learned today?

I went to Gui’s new shop today which is part of a hostel near Jetyod so he should get a fair bit of easy custom once he’s got things up and running.

Art showed up a few minutes after I arrived too and we all chatted for a bit. I managed to do a little writing and marvelled at the accents of the English backpackers that were around.

I took this picture because I was laughing at my naughty grade 10 students as they were washing up after their stall had finished for the afternoon.