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Tag: Indie
Savvily-Serious Poem – Lift Lines
Inspired by the words of Christina Henry, in her novel, ‘The Girl in Red’: ‘.. a cloak made of tired that pressed down on her shoulders and made her neck droop.’ (p.32) And by my memory of lamp I once owned, in the shape of a lady wearing a crinoline dress – a lady whose undergarments…
Curlicues: A Savvy Poem
I am – the twist in the tale, presenting to you the gift of my surprise …………………………………………… Copyright owned by Jay Cool, June 2019 Image by John Hain from Pixabay
Quotidian: A Savvy Poem
I am, they say, bland. Bland, ordinary, everyday – drab! Being drab, I land in a bland sort of way – as a tiny ripple, barely noticeable, until – swept up by invisibility, my everything becomes your everything: greedy, ravenous, destructive and DELICIOUS. Copyright owned by Jay Cool, June 2019 Image by Dina Dee…
Elemental: A Savvy Poem
Uncomplicated. Simple. Insignificant. Essential – the tale that is me. Copyright owned by Jay Cool, June 2019
Numinous: This Physical Thing
My stories are told from my toes; in the places between my joints, where vast expanses of sun-soaked-night sky are lit up by the flecks let loose from my mother bones; flecks, once broken, now holding their own – numinous. Copyright owned by Jay Cool, June 2019 Image by Johannes Plenio from Pixabay Please read more…
Travel Log: A Savvy Poem
I unravel myself and, stretched out, feeling full, I traverse the River Humber, leaving my beginning where part of me began, in Grimsby, and my middle, over the other side in Yorkshire. In…
Never: A Little Bit of Savviness
Not now, she said. Not now, and not really ever. No, not now. Never. Copyright owned by Jay Cool, April 2019 Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay
Being: A Savvy Poem
To be a being, to be a me that is a being, I must not be benign. To be benign is to be immobile, immoveable, to be a sign of being just so. But being a being, that is a being that is me, I find myself not a being to be a something that…
Protest: A Savvy Poem
Rot. A lot of old rot. A lot of rotten old tests pushed at me by rotten old people. Old people and old tests. All rotten. And all best left to rot. A lot! Copyright owned by Jay Cool, April 2019 Image by F1 Digitals from Pixabay
