Hi everyone, I’ve had another article published, not on Taste of Cinema this time but on the 25YL TV and Film website. Surprise, surprise, its Twin Peaks related. I’ve written about the European pilot episode of the series and how I view the extra scenes at the end, especially in light of Season 3. Hope […]
Read more "The Forgotten Pieces"Anyone who watches What the Haiku! will know that I can’t go more than a month without coming back to one of my favourite characters: Dick Tremayne. In his honour then, I have composed some limericks – my first attempts at this form of poetry. Limericks have a fairly strict structure in terms of rhyme […]
Read more "Are you still seeing this…? Some limericks"Hi there, I had another idea for a poem and I decided to go back to that Irish verse style called Ae Freislighe (ay fresh-lee) that I did a while ago. As I explained in that post, Ae Freislighe are highly regimented and have a complex arrangement of syllables and rhymes. It has stanzas of four […]
Read more "Shelly’s Tale – a poem"My #whatthehaiku video tonight turned into a seven-haiku collection, so I thought I’d put it here as well. Life’s Intersection A crack and you know Though you shut out what you saw You can’t stay the sound It rips through your heart Screams your baby is taken Leaving you standing Surrounded, alone Callous […]
Read more "Life’s Intersection – a poem"A little while ago, I did one of my #whatthehaiku videos about Donna Hayward. It turned into quite a long poem comprising seven different haiku poems. I felt like I wanted to develop it a little bit and turn it into something else. I first thought about doing another sonnet to go with the ones […]
Read more "A Ditty for Donna"Hi everyone, I knocked up another sonnet to stand by my earlier efforts for Laura Palmer and Agent Cooper. This one concerns the story of the dark force present in Twin Peaks: the inhabiting spirit, the evil that men do, the one known as BOB. Here is his story: The Story of BOB Loathsome spirit […]
Read more "The Story of BOB – a sonnet"Had some time on my hands this afternoon and put together this quick palindrome about the darkness in old woods. Hope you like it. Palindrome for Dark Woods We as complicated creatures perceive, Darkness and vile things, Among trees vast, tall. Black and hungry fire burns, Hot and diseased, Wings spread across, Branches and leaves, […]
Read more "Palindrome for Dark Woods – a poem"Hi everyone, OK, this is my last Twin Peaks poem (besides the daily haikus) for a while. I had one more to get out of me but I’m aware that I’ve been filling news feeds with this stuff and I should probably stop for a time before I outstay my welcome. This last form I wanted to […]
Read more "The Battle of the Bob Bubble – a poem"Hi there, My latest attempts at Twin Peaks inspired poetry in different forms. These are cinquains, five-line poems which follow a specific syllable structure: 2-4-6-8-2. I tried to have a bit of fun with these and not make them too serious. Couldn’t help but go that way with one or two, though. Harry, Doomed in loving, […]
Read more "Cinquains for Lucy, Audrey, Candie and others"Just thought I’d experiment a little bit with another poetic form: the palindrome. It’s very hard to get it right and to make sure that the second half makes sense. Quite happy with this for a first attempt, though. Agony is freedom, And lodges fill spirits As darkness pulls light away, Longer no kindness can […]
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