At the end of last year I took part in a series of writing workshops with Lisa Matthews (she of the Poetry Fold http://poetryfold.co.uk/). I have just gone back to the notebook I kept during those 6 weeks. We wrote a lot each workshop and produced an amazing amount of work. I have a bad habit of not reviewing my writing but have decided that there may well be some material worth exploring. Below is an edited poem from one of these sessions. They were amazingly productive evenings albeit totally exhausting but I amazed at how much is Ok and not for the dustbin.
I am supposed to reading “new” poems with Sheree Mack and others on the 3rd February ay the Lit and Phil in Newcastle. Was very worried that I would not have any new babies to take along but I think I now have found some material to work with. Have a night at Cober Hill after a writing day with our Regional Lapidus group next weekend so I am now quite hopeful that I might have something to read…
People make up things
Scream for no reason
Papier mache masks hide
Their real intentions
You can slog and slug
But get nowhere fast
Struggle
Live on the edge
Noble endeavours
Hidden from view
No one really cares
I am not even sure that I do
Peerless, timeless
Move on, move out
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