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Poor Poetry: Villanelle
In my last post I mentioned I’d been reading poetry lately and, in fact, I’ve also been writing some of my own. They’re by no means great, hence the title of today’s post, but I thought I’d share them anyway. Here’s my first attempt at a villanelle (I fudged the rhyme scheme a little but it’s…
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Ode on Periods by Bernadette Mayer
I’ve been checking out poetry over at Poets.org today (you know, as you do) and came across this brilliant Ode by Bernadette Mayer. I’m all about openness and saying it like it is these days, especially when it comes to women’s bodies which have been ushered behind some ridiculous veil of impropriety and shame for centuries…
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Positive Thinking
So the power of positive think ey? After forcing myself to be chipper, and writing about sleep ins instead of whinging, I’ve managed to turn that vat of self-loathing I was swimming in into sunbeams and rainbows (hopefully a pot of gold will turn up soon). After one of those enjoyable, lazy sleep ins this…
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The Joy of Sleeping In
I’m trying to be more positive. That’s a sentence that’s probably been written a million times (often as an intro to some thinly veiled complaining. Hopefully I don’t follow that route). I recently began reading Caitlin Moran’s collection of Essays, Moranthology. Towards the end of her introduction she wrote that her “underlying, abiding belief is…