the dog with a starred forehead by poetrix369 a cento poem eat my pussy from behind that’s the kind of thing she’d say to keep that rocky core of rage within ones rage and these hands where love … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Thursday 10th September 2020
Review of ‘Walking Through the Forest’ by Jesse Palmer by jennik We’ve been set a class exercise – to review two items from kiss me hardy, NMIT’s online literary and arts journal. The first item that I chose to review from … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Thursday 20th August 2020
Walking Through the Forest by jessobloggo falling gently over rocks, we do not know its’ motive. while the rocks know nothing else, the water’s edge is chaos, the point of no return, for the ladybug clinging, … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Wednesday 13th November 2019
The Comfort Zone by jessobloggo Dropping his phone on to the ground causes his mind to flood with agony and hatred towards all things Burning his toast proves to him life is cruel Waiting in … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Wednesday 30th October 2019
Who’s heard of a Haiku? by wordwanderings Well, before I had started our course this year, I must tell you that I had no idea what a haiku was. Although it seems to be a very popular … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Tuesday 29th October 2019
Was Once Paradise by jessobloggo What once was a place to call paradise I wish I could have seen animals running all around weaving in and out of trees Only dangers were the bigger ones … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Friday 18th October 2019
Pulchritude — A Villanelle by cjwright We are just chugging through the poems this semester! ‘Pulchritude’, as unpleasant a word as it sounds, funnily enough, means “beauty”. I thought it would be a satisfying title to … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Thursday 10th October 2019
My Fathers Toolbox by jessobloggo Was once bright red, the metal box was born As time goes on, brown specks of dust have made a home. With no human touch, the dust has remained The … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Tuesday 8th October 2019
Slip Away | Poem by flowerhobo For our poetry class we have been asked to write a Villanelle poem. And while I struggled to come up with an idea at first, after working out my first … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Tuesday 24th September 2019
Landay Poems by cjwright For my next trick, a Landay poem! This form, while tricky to nail down at first (and which led to a lot of frustrated syllable-counting on fingers) had a very … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Tuesday 24th September 2019
Sonnets Abound by cjwright The latest addition in my poetry exploits — a sonnet! I’ve commonly found when writing poetry that it’s much easier to craft a poem around a story. This poem, I … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Tuesday 10th September 2019
The Friday Poem by wordwanderings Sometimes in life, opportunity knocks. As part of our creative writing course, we had the opportunity to write for the Nelson Mail about one of the upcoming events at the … DCW502 Writing and Contemporary Practice | Monday 2nd September 2019