The four of us David, Kathy, Margaret and John had a terrific meeting in San Javier this morning.
Margaret produced four poems for discussion, two of which were recent and two having originated a bit further back in time. They were entitled as follows ‘The Boss’, ‘Thoughts on Autumn Leaves’, ‘The View’ and ‘Enjoy those good days’. These contained some great rhymes and some wonderful thoughts among other things.
David read two more of his train poems and they will be two of my favourite ones. He has nine more to write with much of the research completed he intends to finish his project by the end of the year. These two were ‘Belle’s Finesse’ of only ten lines but with some great rhyme which included ‘rumpy-pumpyness’. His second one ‘There’d be Nowt Without Navvies’ hit the spot and contained some hard-hitting points.
Kathy having been irritated by Auntie Beeb wrote a damn good rhyming rant about how they covered the U.S. presidential elections which forced her to turn to ITV. They are titled as follows ‘Channel of Thought’ and then ‘Stormy Sea’ which talks about the divide between Democrats and Republicans. She says she still loves Auntie.
She now has a published book available to buy, ‘ Fallyn and the Dragons’ and she has a book signing at Bookworld in Haberneras, Torrevieja, tomorrow morning. We now have another signed copy in the library!
John produced several poems on trees and two that were directly connected with the last open mic. The latter two were about what it could be like to stand there at the microphone and what it is like from the microphone’s point of view. He intends to read these at the next ‘open mic’ which is going to happen on Monday evening, 7,30pm at Chadwick’s, Villamartin on 3rd December, 2012.
The other two were about the same subject that emanated from the summer trip to England when staying on a farm near Marston Moor where Cromwell saw off ‘The Royalist Forces’ in 1645. The oak tree around where a field hospital was situated is beautiful and a snippet of history provided the spark to write these two poems using different points of view.
MOVING ON
We have been discussing how we can move forward, individually and as a group, with the intention of entering competitions, getting published or both. Margaret has compiled a list for forthcoming competitions not only for poetry but for story writing too. Closing dates vary from monthly, quarterly and annually but with this list there can be a greater deal of control.
It has been discussed before but we should look at what is being published and what is being considered as worthy by judges.
This will be an on-going feature and which will involve future discussions.
David produced a poem ‘Tyne Dock’ by Francis Scarfe (1911 – 1986) which describes life as he saw it.
It was decided that we can all delve into our pasts and produce something similar for our next meeting on Friday 7th December, 2012.
This one will be the last for the current year and we will resume again in January.
Further information can be obtained by looking on www.portoftyne.co.uk
Also David has submitted war poems to the following site and has been successful. You can go to www.warpoetry.co.uk
If you are getting bored at home why not try a ‘Scarfe’ poem and send it in?
There seems to be a lot going on but keep writing
John Edwards 23rd November, 2012
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