Bento's Sketchbook in Portugal

There is no depth of reflection in this work, almost instantaneous hits from the mosquito to the notebook to the internet. Yet all the while with John Berger's Bento's Sketchbook in hand and his Cadmium Red words spoken on the transportable music machine.

This post is as an aide memoir; always on vacation take a notebook, always as a poet dream you can become an artist; always, with time to peruse, peruse with the help of a bit of pre-planning

140 word fascination

Twitter's 140 word limit continues to give me more pleasure from editing poetry than ever I found before, here are the first 121 results.
Special thanks to

1 @PoetryVerve
2 @JaneBeNimble @RobinEaston
3 @DustAndWater @TheUndeniables
4 @GaryDayEllison
5 @m_blanc_
12 @Toltecjohn
13 @bookdreamer
14 @JaneBeNimble
15 @dgdreamin
16 @dgdreamin
17 @homespunvintage
18 @dgdreamin
19 @myearthgirl
20 @dgdreamin
21 @PoetryVerve
22 @Toltecjohn
23 @apwpoet
24 @7glens
28 @dgdreamin
29 @therisinsun
30 @therisinsun
32 @dgdreamin
33 @dgdreamin
34 @dgdreamin
35 @h0ll0wd0ll
37 @therisinsun @wordblender
38 @susanantolin
39 @rasmithii
40 @rasmithii
42 @dgdreamin
43 @Miridunn
44 @EdenSol
45 @TheJesterStole
46 @wordspalabras
47 @NaiveProstitute
49 @CaterinaSky
52 @OliviaDresher
53 @dgdreamin
57 @I_Imagination
58 @bookdreamer
59 @rasmithii
63 @poemblaze1
64 @bumfuzzled2004
66 @MarcoBom_74 @perlygates
67 @therisinsun @h0ll0wd0ll
68 @therisinsun
69 @heatherlore
70 @MarcoBom_74
71 @erogenousmind
72 @MarcoBom_74
73 @jessejacob
74 @_Cerridwen_
75 @_Cerridwen_
76 @NaiveProstitute
77 @himupnorth @barbedwyer
86 @poetjanstie @real_business @rgogos @konamacphee
89 @myearthgirl
90 @dgdreamin @RefugeInsomnia
91 @tankaqueen
93 @AineBelton
94 @KenpoBear
95 @finishthepoem
100 @dgdreamin
101 @bumfuzzled2004 @kado56 @dmriver
104 @projectlove
105 @OliviaMagdelene
106 @SandmanSimonds
107 @wordblender
109 @bookdreamer
110 @cmschoenfeld
113 @dgdreamin
114 @MichelleMcGrane
115 @dgdreamin
116 @dgdreamin
119 @MortChr
120 @KenpoBear
121 @OliviaDresher

Poetry and Image

Yesterday was my first production of a short poem with image, or image with short poem, dependant on your viewpoint. The combination was called Blue Snow. I am not at all unique in combining image with poem, but these combinations are mine, they spring from my memories and in that way they gather their own uniqueness. I hope to do many. I hope you like at least a few.

Artistic Motivation - Disaffected

The Dissertation Series comes nearer home, into its third round, with the poets response to Looking at Self an exhibition featuring Lucy Jones at the Usher Gallery - Lincoln, January 2007

Disaffected

Troubled, bent double, creased up without laughter
Bubble, creosote and stubble, the strong sense of ones lost temper
If I sit a thousand hours will it mean anymore
If I touched your crumpled skin or smelt old piss

Why would I

Better to turn away, steer clear
Make for certain not to be affected
Fall back into my shallow ways
Turn down the lights
Turn away from the musing

Artistic Motivation - Postcard

The Dissertation Series continues, with the poets response, during the final visit of the second cycle, to the Poets in the Landscape exhibition featuring Various Artists, at the Pallant House Gallery - Chichester, May 2007

Postcard

Graham Sutherland on holiday with Peter Watson, John Craxton and Kathleen Sutherland

Three petals on white
Camouflage in shadow
Greens with blacks

Entrance to a lane
The picnic hamper is somewhere other
Of the gesture yawned at
By the overlapping seas
Waving in the settling sun

Who is to say
Let things come to rest
Or who is to say
Let things come otherwise