…in this sequence. I’d written the ‘Adding List Poem’ in yesterday’s posting as a submission for an educational theme and anthology publication, thus the direction towards students/young writers (as a teacher I always found list poems a superb idea/structure/support for encouraging creative writing).

The poem wasn’t taken, and thus yesterday’s posting of it to share all the same. And as I said then, this prompted me to write a ‘Subtracting List Poem’ which follows. Any arithmetical references – correct or awry – are from research rather than my Maths CSE Grade 4 shallow aptitude, though this could have fueled the less secure (but I always, in any case, take comfortable refuge in poetic licence):

Love a list poem, this is my latest – the kind of content and ideas I would like to introduce to students for writing their own:

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My thanks to IT and Rupert for posting my poem today.

You can read it here: https://internationaltimes.it/multitudinous/

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Another interminable, apocalyptic waiting…

My sincere thanks to Billy Mills for his reviews of two of my poetry books in today’s posting from Elliptical Movements. They are both thoughtful and generous. You can read then here: https://ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/recent-reading-october-2023/

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My thanks to IT and Rupert for today’s posting of one of my ‘literary lines’ generative TextArt poems. Two from a sequence of four, you can read it here: https://internationaltimes.it/will-to-change/

Presumably we all have our many bugbears. One of mine is the observation ‘It was surreal’, this most commonly brought to my attention on TV interviews when a (again usually) sports person, or celebrity, or person-of-the-moment is speaking about an actual, real achievement and/or experience and they describe it as the total contradiction of ‘surreal’. There, I’ve said it:

I never got past 5 erasures from this, the fifth making its way into my Bier Bua Press found poetry collection &there4, this now withdrawn from availability when the press closed.

I’ve just come across these other 4 beginnings, but it was a task too hard to pursue for so many reasons: