A year of micro poems [One a Day]
At some point at the tail-end of 2011 I entered into a poetry deal with the devilish Helen Williams (@nellsberry on Twitter). The deal, as far as I understood it, was to write a short poem each day for the month of January. This seemed like a fun idea, one that would provide a welcome distraction from copy-writing. It turns out that the deal I agreed too was actually one that lasted for a lot longer than the 31 days of January… 11.774 times longer than that month*. * to 3 decimal points of verity
So here we are at the beginning of a year of micro-poetry. 365 different poems, each on a specially chosen topic. For my part I’ll be posting all of my micro-poems on my Tumblr account [Headspace], which is a nicer place to share content than this current WordPress site, but I’ll link to them all here:
We’ll be choosing a different theme each day and suggestions will be accepted on Twitter or on Helen’s post about our challenge.
January posts
- 1st January – Hungover
- 2nd January – Resolutions
- 3rd January – Three
- 4th January – Pets
- 5th January – Sleep [and one extra variant on the theme of Sleep]
- 6th January – Late
- 7th January – Country Life
- 8th January – David Bowie
- 9th January – Fireplace
- 10th January – Addiction
- 11th January – Chess
- 12th January – Cycling
- 13th January – End of the Working Week (here’s a longer poem on the same theme and here’s an audio version)
- 14th January – Memory
- 15th January – Broom
- 16th January – Monday
- 17th January – Juice
- 18th January – Toes
- 19th January – Lettuce
- 20th January – Olympics
- 21st January – Danger
- 22nd January – Canopy – and a related poem called Two nights
- 23rd January – Bravery – and a longer poem on the same theme
- 24th January – Molehills
- 25th January – Hospital
- 26th January – Raindrops on the road and a related poem: Puddles and weeds
- 27th January – Teeth
- 28th January – Moorland Rescue
- 29th January – Rucksack
- 30th January – Curtains
- 31st January – Hammock
February posts
- 1st Feb – Vegemite and a follow up: The Veggies Might
- 2nd Feb – Gangs
- 3rd Feb – The Lonely Oak
- 4th Feb – Watermelon
- 5th Feb – Country Lanes
- 6th Feb – Tiles
- 7th Feb – Poetry
- 8th Feb – Pigeon and a longer verse: The Pigeon’s Transformation
- 9th Feb – I have never
- 10th Feb – Every day which came from a longer verse: Every day repeating
- 11th Feb – The trouble with you
- 12th Feb – I love you because
- 13th Feb – First Class
- 14th Feb – Mending a Broken Heart
- 15th Feb – Bricks and then a picture version
- 16th Feb – Cigarettes
- 17th Feb – Moss
- 18th Feb – Middle Class
- 19th Feb – Little Stones
- 20th Feb – Korea
- 21st Feb – Candles
- 22nd Feb – Once Upon A Time
- 23rd Feb – If Walls Could See
- 24th Feb – Little Black Dress
- 25th Feb – Skin
- 26th Feb – Would You Rather
- 27th Feb – Lemon Pith
- 28th Feb – Senses
- 29th Feb – Leap Year
March posts
- 1st March – Cenyn Pedr (Daffodil)
- 2nd March – Breath’s Vow
- 3rd March – Scars
- 4th March – Twitter
- 5th March – Body Hair
- 6th March – Guitar
- 7th March – Artificial Intelligence (suggested by Zachary Gallant)
- 8th March – Love turns to hate (suggested by dreebied on Tumblr)
- 9th March – Firsts
- 10th March – Winter’s morn
- 11th March – Betrayal
- 12th March – Panic
- 13th March – That Time Again
- 14th March – Super Powers and an extended version
- 15th March – Crayons
- 16th March – Strings
- 17th March – Mice and a longer version
- 18th March – Ludite
- 19th March – If I only knew your name
- 20th March – Wristbands ( about a particular wristband I have : Til Cameron’s Gone )
- 21st March – Skates (and a longer one called Bananas at the skate park )
- 22nd March – Grapevine (and a longer one called Last Year’s Crop)
- 23rd March – Trilby
- 24th March – Down by the riverside
- 25th March – Victoria Park
- 26th March – Therapy
- 27th March – Tarnished
- 28th March – Saccharin
- 29th March – Dive
- 30th March – Alarm
- 31st March – Wireless
April posts (for April, I’ll be taking part in National Poetry Writing Month)
- 1st April – A carpe diem poem – Vitamin D
- 2nd April – A poem inspired by the song that was #1 when you were born, for me that was Take My Breath Away by Berlin - here’s the poem, and here’s one about a German lady that T.M.B.A.
- 3rd April – An epithalamium ( a poem about weddings) – The Unburdened Union
- 4th April – A Blues poem (Line 1 + 2 are same/v close, 3rd line different.) – Closing Time Blues
- 5th April – Baseball / any sport – Pre-season
- 6th April – a poem about an animal (Marianne Moore style) – Animal
- 7th April – A poem dyed with a single colour – Tinted Sinister
- 8th April – Inspired by a walk outdoors (for me, on this day I was in Normandy)
- 9th April – A persona poem (poemonologue)
- 10th April – A poem with a stolen first line – Stolen Words
- 11th April – A poem of the senses – Quintupled Senses
- 12th April – An homophonic translation – my take on Ar Hyd Y Nos (A Welsh choral song)
- 13th April – A Ghazal – “Love’s Ghazal“
- 14th April – A Sonnet : My deviation from Shakespeare’s #18: A Wet Summer’s Day
- 15th April – A parody (of another poem) : Another spin on Shakespeare’s #18 : Summer’s Disappointment
- 16th April – A picture poem: Vegan Cupcakes : and the full text
- 17th April – An epistolary poem [addressing an inanimate object + mentioning 1) song lyric, 2) historical fact, 3)oddball noun-adjective combination, 4) a fruit, 5) a local street, 6) a measure of distance]
- 18th April – A lullaby – my take on The Teddy-bears Picnic: The Corporate Picnic
- 19th April – Opposite poem (take a poem and switch it around, reflecting all things you can) – Desiderata’s Negative – a spin on Max Ehrmann’s poem
- 20th April – A journey – sights, feelings – moving from point A-B
- 21st April – Hay(na)ku: my first attempt
- 22nd April – A poem about a plant:
- 23rd April – an ekphrastic poem:
- 24th April – lipogram (a poem without a certain letter):
- 25th April – centos (using only lines stolen from other poems):
- 26th April – elegy (a poem mourning someone’s death):
- 27th April – nursery rhyme: Dear Giant TCR-1
- 28th April – A poem about space (not cosmos space, but *area* space)
- 29th April – A clerihew I’ll be writing about David Cameron: verses 1, 2
- 30th April – I remember
May posts (Helen has run away from the challenge… boo hiss! So it’s just me on my lonesome pottering around – poems are currently in a notebook and will be uploaded at the end of the month)
- 1st May -
- 2nd May – An Ode to Peace Studies
- 3rd May -
- 4th May -
- 5th May -
- 6th May -
- 7th May – The Door’s Verses 1, 2,
- 8th May -
- 9th May -
- 10th May -
- 11th May – When I die: [prose] – part 1 – Put an avocado in my mouth
- 12th May -
- 13th May – A nick or a snick?
- 14th May -
- 15th May -
- 16th May -
- 17th May – Social Media Sonnet: 1 - Campaigns
- 18th May -
- 19th May -
- 20th May -
- 21st May -
- 22nd May -
- 23rd May -
- 24th May -
- 25th May – I Left My Brain in Malta
- 26th May -
- 27th May – Welcome to the Church
- 28th May -
- 29th May -
- 30th May -
- 31st May – To the father of @MissStJames
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