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Poetry Rule No. 45 Don’t underestimate the therapeutic quality of vices – or verses

'A Poetic Potter & A Potting Poet'Leave a comment

First published 5th June 2020

Turning the Tables

Lobster meat is sweet, I believe
I tasted it once, a long time ago
but I really don’t know
if the clacking, snapping, pincer-sharp
bite of the lobster-look-alike girl’s mind
belies anything even remotely kind

As I sit watching her eat that lobster meat
sucking her fingers with self-satisfied glee
pouting and spouting out the debris
of her clacking, snapping pincer-sharp mind
and smile inwardly at the resemblance I see
a wonderful, horrible thought comes to me

Wouldn’t it be great if a giant lobster loomed
and ate her up after popping her into
a boiling pot, while she was still alive?

This is the sea-bed of salivation
upon which I feed and thrive
turning the tables through poetry
on the clacking, snapping
pincer-sharp lobster-look-alike girl’s mind
and her kind

2020

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Day 9

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One of my bowls, featured on a friend’s windowsill

Yesterday’s combination of walking, yoga and Qigong worked well as I had a restful evening and a good night’s sleep.

I did wake up at around 3am when dawn was already breaking and the birds were already singing. Listening to the birds, the sound of the wind and what was at one point quite heavy rain, I fell back to sleep and woke feeling refreshed, ready to make the most of today.

It’s been a good start so far.

Lydia and I have had a wild and wonderful walk, with the weather warm and slightly breezy. The sun came out too.

It’s a Tuesday, so I’ll go and visit my friend in the village this afternoon. I go every Tuesday, for a couple of hours in the afternoon. We usually go out for a stroll, if the weather’s OK. More fresh air! More exercise!

Lydia is outside enjoying some sunshine now.

I’m going to start making arrangements for my latest pots to be fired.

I don’t have a kiln at home – yet – but I do know someone who runs a firing service. We arrange a time and a place around mid-way between her home and mine, for drop-off and pick-up. She provides a very good service; takes the greatest care.

I have plenty of time before the next planned event for selling my wares – the Aldborough & Boroughbridge Show:

https://www.boroughbridgeshow.co.uk/

Consolidation is going to be a theme for me, going forward, for the foreseeable. I’m not quite sure as yet what form the process of consolidation will take, or what forms my pots may take, but process and pots will take form, one way or another.