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Swindon shines at successful poetry festival
Poetry column by Poetry Swindon’s On the drive home I phoned my
Maurice Spillane daughter who had had a son, Luke,
three weeks earlier and I recounted
I am often asked the day and we agreed that we
where a poem comes were lucky as a family. Three hours
from. My answer: just later I got a phone call to say:
look around you and “Come to the hospital. Luke has had
do a lot of listening. a brain seizure.” Our safe world took Christmas Menu
Everyone has a story and open a blow.
questions reveal a lot. I carry a pen We prayed, even to angels. Over available from
and paper and am not shy about the months since then he continues 22nd November 2016 to 2nd January 2017
making notes when I hear a good to recover.
anecdote. These two haikus came from that
The hard work is turning those event:
notes into a poem. If you are a Haikus in an Open Field
beginner, start with three-line
haikus. Compressing an observation It would have been day
into a line with five syllables, then when I morphed atheist, for
seven syllables and ending with five Gods whisper at night,
syllables is a good discipline.
So, here’s a story that led to a and then my grandson’s
poem. I went to a funeral in March seizure eclipsed the sun and Christmas Special For Two
when a close friend died. She had I begged of angels.
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