Letters, remember them
then young, old now, long gone
beginnings, becoming men
tea rooms, halls walked, sober, drunk
led on, showing off, shown up
meant for no one, between two
dissected, analysed, misread, judged
letters, remember addressed to someone
known by, their minds, beyond you.
Month: March 2020
Throwback Friday – Care Guide – Eric (EDC Writing)
A ‘poem and a line’ hung separately before, re-aired at the ‘Go Dog Go Cafe’ today…
‘Poem and a line’ – an early 2018 poem and a six word line – a light care guide to laundry!
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Care guide no use
hand rub squeeze tight
deep soak wet through
hot wash why rush
spin-cycles least two
well-conditioned hell yes
iron best wrinkle free
airing-cupboard tight fit
while here clean sheets
okay mister don’t mess up
damn you’re doing it again
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She’s a tickle… he’s an itch
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EDC, an Englishman, a scientist, retired fellow, now writing, as is, whatever briefly comes into his head. Can be found blogging as ‘EDC Writing -Believing Sight Unseen’ at http://believingsightunseen.com
Six Words – 23/Mar/20
First thoughts ill-advised, second maybe better.
Promote Yourself Monday, March 23, 2020 and Round UP from March 16, 2020
‘Go Dog Go Cafe’ open – pop in for ‘Promote Yourself Monday’ – all welcome.
Welcome to Promote Yourself Monday. We had another great week perhaps because of the Coronavirus Pandemic. So please, once again, ALL Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to post one link to one specific piece of their writing (600 words or less please!) they have published on their blog, Facebook page, or Instagram feed into the comments section below.
If you post a link, be sure to read some of the other great writing people have linked to.
Last week’s Round UP, my apologies to the community for not getting around to the posts as much last week. Like many here in the States, I have been fighting to understand what my new normal looks along with processing the impact of the changes on life. Will get back to work now…
https://poetryforhealing.com/2020/03/16/daybreak/
https://lucysworkscom.home.blog/2020/03/15/let-us-draft/
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Throwback Friday – Life’s Light – Eric (EDC Writing)
Life’s light felt right to post again over at the Cafe…
Grey autumn day
clouds as far as eyes can see
breeze swept trees shake off leaves
smoke swirls from log-fired chimneys
Arm in arm they walk
snuggled close to share their warmth
each complete with one another
for them there is no other
The path they tread now clear ahead
past diversions left behind them
a footstep from the door they pause
embrace give looks that say it all
The key their love he sweeps her up
lips touch across the threshold
life’s light within first sign of spring
winter closed the door behind them
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EDC, an Englishman, a scientist, retired fellow, now writing, as is, whatever briefly comes into his head. Can be found blogging as ‘EDC Writing -Believing Sight Unseen’ at http://believingsightunseen.com
Can’t Go Out Today
Watched the teatime news
emotions, hopes, confused
can’t go out today
that’s what the modellers say
untested, tested, pray
Six Words – 16/Mar/20
Never dated… his poems laid confused.
Promote Yourself Monday, March 16, 2020 and Round UP from March 9, 2020!
This mid-March Monday why not drop by the Go Dog Go Cafe it’s a warm, safe place to be…
Welcome toPromote Yourself Monday! Another great week last week, now that we got the bugs worked out from the week before. Overall we had 270 views, 45 likes and 263 comments. As I have said before, numbers cannot measure the community we build worldwide with this wonderful feature, they sure tell us how important it has become. I will share links below, but and once again invite you to postalink to writing (600 words or less please!) published on your blog, Facebook page, or Instagram feed into the comments section below. With the coronavirus affecting all of us, let us fight back with our antivirus of creative energy!
If you post a link, be sure to read some of the other great writing people have linked to.
Last week’s round UP with 38 shares! (I apologize for any formatting snafus… I am using the new editor and a…
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EDC Writing – Posts Elsewhere (13/Mar/20)
My poem ‘River Crossing‘ submitted in response to the March 2020 prompt ‘Bridges’ is today posted by ‘Free Verse Revolution‘ under my full name – Eric Daniel Clarke. My thanks to Kristiana Reed, who yet again came up with an intriguing image which got me reading my poem in yet another way – always a good thing.
Since my return in February to the ‘Go Dog Go Cafe‘ as a contributing writer I’ve been posting poems on ‘Throwback Friday’ – today’s poem ‘Next Door‘ is one of my earliest first posted back in 2016 – I started late yet in a literary sense this poem seems from a lifetime ago; and in someways it is.
Both poems will appear in ‘Shorts – a take on poetry‘
‘Shorts – a take on poetry’ transition made
‘Shorts – a take on poetry’ the first book of my transition from scientist to writer will be published in May by Potter’s Grove Press. Writing poetry came as a surprise to me. I’d a novel in mind, ‘Believing Sight Unseen,’ it still is; competing hard with the immediacy of poetry.
I started writing late, creatively, that is. Until 2012 I wrote disciplined non-fiction, lived a scientist’s life of peer review and publication. I worked at boundaries; of the physical and life sciences, of industry and academia, of research and mentoring, of observation and extrapolation. 2012 to 2017 the transition made, not easily, not smoothly, easing out of science, finding my way to write.
Turned out my approach to writing not so different to the way I did science – a little unconventional – using words in place of molecules to explore boundaries; real, imagined, of my mind and yours. In short, PowerPoint bullet points became verse – I like to keep things tight.
