Leftfield Questions
How is a fallow deer like kitchen roll?
What mundane task would a living fallow deer do in a home?
How would kitchen roll be rewilded?
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Re-wilding the mundane day 20
Catching up on Paul Brookes’ December challenge.
House centipede
We’ve always called them toothbrushes,
the zippy, bristle-legged insects
that clean out the cracks and crevices
in the walls, night workers,
scuttlers and scavengers,
killers of beetles and spiders,
picking their way through
the minutiae of house debris,
toothbrushes, tabby-brindled,
bottle brushed hunters,
yet I would rather the beetles
and toothless unseen mites.
Join me every day this December. #RewildTheMundane and/or #ReMundaneTheWild. Twenty First Day. NOTE: NO WILD THINGS MUST DIE IN THESE SCENARIOS. I look forward to your draft poetry/short fiction/visual images. Go leftfield and imagine outside rubbish bins as a wild animal or plant, imagine a wild animal or plant as outside rubbish bins, or other domestic object, or task. Email me or add your contribution to this link.
Leftfield Questions
How is a shrew like outside rubbish bins?
What would a living shrew do in a home?
How would outside rubbish bins be rewilded?
Join me every day this December. #RewildTheMundane and/or #ReMundaneTheWild. Twentieth Day. NOTE: NO WILD THINGS MUST DIE IN THESE SCENARIOS. I look forward to your draft poetry/short fiction/visual images. Go leftfield and imagine a toothbrush as a wild animal or plant, imagine a wild animal or plant as a toothbrush, or other domestic object, or task. Email me or add your contribution to this link.
Leftfield Questions
How is a nettle like a toothbrush ?
What mundane task would a living nettle do in a home?
How would a toothbrush be rewilded?
“Created Responses To This Day” Kerry Darbishire responds to Day 77 of my This Day images. I would love to feature your responses too.
Winter Landscape
Is this where Monet stood
with his palette of dawn, the slow mix
of rose madder and cadmium yellow rising
and sinking into the lead-grey
and burnt-umber river –
a gliding current brushing bare trees
and waterfowl from town to town
on a winter’s day like this.
Kerry Darbishire
#TheWombwellRainbow #PoeticFormsChallenge. It is weekly. Fourteen form is a Welsh form a #Rhupunt. I will post the challenge to create a first draft of a poetic form by the following late Sunday. Please email your first draft to me, including an updated short, third person bio and a short prose piece about the challenges you faced and how you overcame them. Except when I’m working at the supermarket I am always ready to help those that get stuck. I will blog my progress throughout the week. Hopefully it may help the stumped. Also below please find links to helpful websites.
Here are the guidelines for the #Rhupunt:
The form can be broken down into lines or stanzas
Each line or stanza contains 3 to 5 sections
Each section has 4 syllables
All but the final section rhyme with each other
The final section of each line or stanza rhymes with the final section of the other lines or stanzas
Helpful Links
https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/rhupunt-poetic-form
https://classicalpoets.org/2017/03/23/how-to-write-a-rhupunt-with-example/#/
Guest Feature – Lynette Creswell
It gives me great delight today to welcome back, children’s author, Lynette Creswell, to Patricia’s Pen. This time Lynette has come along to tell my readers all about her brand-new hoglet book Hoglets’ Birthday Surprise. Without further ado, it’s over to Lynette.
Hoglets’ Birthday Surprise
Lynette Creswell
It’s almost Christmas and a busy time of year for everyone. For some it’s getting those presents wrapped and Christmas cards written but for me it’s an extra special time. Last December I published my first ever children’s book, Hoglets’ Christmas Magic and introduced two cute hoglets, Prickles and Primrose. The hoglets were a magical success and I earned myself a new following of young hogleteers.
As a writer I wanted to continue engaging with my readers and leave a lasting impression. The positive feedback I received for Hoglets’ Christmas Magic far exceeded anything I had imagined.
Teachers, grandparents…
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Guest Feature – Flashback 3
Back in November I invited you to recap or visit guest features up to end of July 2022. Now Patricia’s Pen is back with more flashbacks, this time to the end of the year. Please re-visit the blogs or read for the first time.
Guest Features – Flashback 3
Kicking Flashback 3 off for August2022 was Lucy Heuschen with the launch of We Wear The Crown. Through poetry Lucy shares her breast cancer journey with the reader. This collection is a must read.
Read Lucy Heuschen’s blog here
Next up for August was Damien B Donnelly blogging about his Parisian experience in his brand new collection Enough! Don’t miss a second chance to have a read.
Read Damien B Donnelly’s blog here
September2022 opened with Kate Rose and her new release Brushstrokes. Kate takes her inspiration from her surroundings. Nature, both the natural world and human nature…
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My Books Are Getting Familiar To Spot. A distinctive style that I love. Thankyou to the Genius book designer Jane Cornwell.
Golden shovel
Paul Brookes’ chosen poetic form last week was the golden shovel. I’ve seen the name before but never understood from reading the poems what it was. Well, now I know and I’ve dutifully persevered and written some. The form is supposed to be more than just an exercise, but to demand creativity from the poet (aren’t all forms supposed to do that?), but I’m obviously stuck at the contortionist exercise stage because I’m not seeing much poetry in my attempts. Here is the poem I sent to Paul’s challenge. It’s based (pretty obviously) on the first line of Byron’s She walks in beauty.
Tree beauty
There are old men trees and some I call she,
wild women trees, shelter where the hind walks.
Breathe out and breathe in.
Tree-breath is powerful, and tree-beauty,
the powerful beauty of nature, like
mountains and rivers, ice-caps, the
lungs of the world, pumping…
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The Wombwell Rainbow 