Author Archives: aprettykettleofpoetry
World Kissing Day
I’m a bit tearful thinking of itbut had some wine and that puts me in touch with what I’m feeling.When my heart and head collide and fit.Sorry, yes, it’s embarrassing. Tough as nails I’m gonna drive it home.Laying on the floor I’m ready to give in.Writers everywhere have their favourite illiterate reader riddled with sin.Tips …
Plane Overhead
Made a guess at hearing the plane you were on leaving across the sea overheadas I looked up from my balcony breadcrustwith your home emptied of your books,and clothes, as my books gather dustand wardrobe hangs like lead,moth-eaten with wanderlust. I guess you’re halfway done with hereand halfway done with thereas, like you say, ™it …
That Little Voice in your Head
When fearing curses dominate versesand pure coincidence leads to waking dreams of waving friends ignoring passing hearseswith odds in favour of things going welland mouthless spirits gagged from spinning their dark spell,that little voice in your headasks ‘But am I that jinxed to be voodoo chicken led?’ When going mad and being recklesswith bottles pouring …
Big Kids’ Comic Book Thought Bubbles
As social media mimic philosopherswrite ‘life’s not a rehearsal’which extras put a like for, while doingthe same thing every day eternalflash car deep thinkerswear fashionable hundred dollar bill suits,and second hand beggar cat walkersrub together coppers like perfect poverty beauts. Meanwhile, hairdressers, famed foridle chat shop talk,go on strike deep in thought,as their sitting waiting …
Photoshopped Vision
The sea turned to turquoise from grey.When my memory lapsed, I remembered what I was here for.The rain fell like a rainbow that had missed out on people who couldn’t stay.People who were inas you knockedbut who hid behind their door. All those excuses to keep horizons in the distance behind lenses double-thick.Smoking behind the …
Imaginary World
Day dream out the window.Watch birds perch on trees.See sums mathematically disappearand photographic figures historically freeze. Watch your parents come back to lifeand days miraculously dawn.See your diary mundanely returnto the day you were born. Watch glasses drink up bar tenderspouring down their throat benders.See calendars for decades to comeand chew predictions like weather forecast …
Happy New Year, Me Hearties
Happy new year to everyone dearwhose names belong to your alphabet song:To A and H, J and K, B and C, D and E,G,P, T and V.F and L, M and N, S, and X and Z, W,Q,and U, R,I,Y and O.Play them on your own pirate station radio. Start the next 365 days with …
Dummy
This was the first poem I wrote for a new collection I’ve been working on since the summer and now completed called ‘Ventriloquist Dummy Voice-Overs.’ I have been writing more than posting for these last few months but will post a few from this new collection based on the theme of voices. Read ‘La formula …
Poetry Archive
Congrats to the winners this year! I entered with ‘Mannequin Street’ and you can find the video there on Poetry Archive website.
A Pretty Kettle of Poetry 