A CONCERT
Yes
–
putting
Sea
drift
with Porgy
and Bess
worked
like an unexpected rhyme.
Loss,
self-deceit, eastern seaboard
made
their shared chord.
The above was written in 2004, after a Cambridge Philharmonic Society concert featuring the two works mentioned. It earns its place in this blog, let me admit, by virtue of self-publication. I fielded it using the #losslit hashtag on Twitter. It did well compared with my tweets in general, if not compared with other people's #losslit tweets, so I offer it now.
I have found a seam of creativity by following the book 52: write a poem a week. Start now. Keep going by Jo Bell. My rate of production hasn't come to one a week -- after nearly a year I've only just got on to number 37 -- but the book's prompts include published poetry that has opened several new planets to explore.
