The Words – 15th April 2026

only a notebook
a smooth-flowing ball-tipped pen
soon, the words will come

or, in lieu of that
any old device will do
the words must emerge

a scrap of paper…
(from one mind to another)
…even a whisper

A senryu chain written fro GloPoWriMo Day 14:
write a poem that bridges (whether smoothly or not) the seeming divide between poetry and technological advances.


Today’s Daily Stoic poem:

Pay Your Taxes

Pay your taxes gladly
Never hope for exemption
You are not special, sadly
To fight is just pretension

The Words – 19th June 2025

The storm that formed within
Kept quiet in self-conceit
The words chosen to spin
Will likely mean defeat

The whispers turned to sin
Unable to delete
The words that did begin
To taste so sickly sweet

The joining of the skin
A union of the heat
The words now worn so thin
There will be no repeat

With the pulling of the pin
The heart began the cheat
The words have been locked in
Forever in deceit

Some thoughts on infidelity