poem on day 2

Your prompt for NaPoWriMo Day 2 - "January freesia, hot coffee". What small, physical things delight you? Write about them. Stick to the physical. See where it goes...


Green Park

walking through Bath city streets in the morning,
still high so that honey-coloured stonework
is magical and towering

then milling around in a supermarket until
10am allowed us all to hand over £4
for a bottle of red wine each for breakfast

and we lay on the bank rolling joints
swigging from the bottles, in hot sunshine
watching Ollie proclaim

line after line of Shakespeare
from his beautiful, expressive mouth
and Gould was quietly humming something

such big happiness and I think of it
as the sun beats in this cottage window
and I make breakfast for my children

then hang the laundry and watch it flap
as I sip from a mug of tea my
 contentment rises like sap

NaPoWriMo begins today...

I did this a few years back and got some good poems out of it and I liked the routine of writing something every day and thinking about it for a long time first. Last time I just grasped around for inspiration but this year I saw that the helpful poet Jo Bell is going to provide a poetry prompt every day. This is going to help me to get started (my mind is a blank lately). Here is her first one and I will post the poem (first draft, rough thing) later today.

'So, my NaPoWriMo prompt number 1 is - write to yourself as a sixteen year old. What warnings, what advice do you give? If you have time - write back. 

[NB I know that some of these prompts will sound worthy or 'workshoppy'. But give them a shot, especially if they aren't the sort of thing you would normally do?]

Moonlight halo: love painting trees

at last...

songs that get stuck in my head for days

damn those catchy beats

pretty Jane