Many thanks to milo and the good folk at Pig Pen Poetry for a fantastic month of inspiration and enjoyment. Topic 30: Write a poem about things ending Form: any Line requirements: 8 lines or more It ends with a whimper a simper a Möbius stripper a tripper with coins on his eyes a sunflower spiral surprise a caramel camel in painted enamel and three kinds of burger with fries one orientation without aberration one nation with infinite lies #NaPM2016 #ending #

Topic 29: Write a poem inspired by jumbling famous song lyrics or just inspired by a favourite song. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more In Containers I can tell, from pictures in magazines and images flashed across our screens that there is a mould, golden and glorious, slender, unblemished, with teeth white and booty black and breasts pointing at the sky. This is success, pressed out on an assembly line from which we have fallen. We are factory seco

Topic 28: a poem inspired by memory loss. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Get involved for free at www.pigpenpoetry.com Cantata A devil was dancing to elegant tunes, a moonlight sonata for one, when over the strains of the soft violin a beat bittersweet was begun. The flames sighed and sickened, the dance lost its way, the glow faded out of the skies, the beat bittersweet played its siren song to the devil with tears in its eyes. The faded gr

Topic 27: Write a poem inspired by the weather or the whether, whichever. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Get involved for free at Pig Pen Poetry Wind No matter your station, by birth or by wealth, no matter your weight or your gender, you cannot avoid it by bribe, lie or stealth, the role of the farting offender. It levels all men by the virtue of stink and women, though they might deny it; some folk pass them out with no hint of a blink while others, disgust

Topic 26: Write a poem from the point of view of an anti-hero, an adversary, a bad guy, etc. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Get involved for free at Pig Pen Poetry Before the fall I think I could have loved her as my father loved my mother though my mother loved another so it's said And my mother, my creator knew that Ned could implicate her so the Hand, now branded traitor lost his head Now I see sweet Sansa crying and it's rather gratifying ho

Topic 25: Write a poem inspired by a murder Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Get involved for free at Pig Pen Poetry Home The alley is silent. Rain glistens on concrete and tar, stretching shadows beneath a single light. She served drinks in the club until midnight. Still in her stockings and heels, she walks home along familiar streets, unconcerned. This is her city. She turns into the alley, a shadow moves, she screams. This only happens on the scr

Topic 24: Write a poem inspired by a movie Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Get involved for free at www.pigpenpoetry.com No Redemption Behind the woman is a wall upon which she, two-dimensional, must abide in silence. Men see flesh and are moved to covet, but will not challenge he who already possesses her. But he is not those men. He uses her for misdirection, discards her when she has served her time, moves on to the next. Gradually, the wall and

Topic 23: Write a poem inspired by something terrible happening Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Get involved for free at www.pigpenpoetry.com Saturday's Soldiers Raiders, invaders, you ran your sheep and cattle across our sacred land, built sheds upon our bora grounds and kept us from our past. Wiradjuri we, born free to die as you please. You spread your disease, you rape and you maim, you plunder and poison and pass us the blame. Windradyne r

Topic 22: Write a poem about losing something or about something you have lost Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Get involved for free at www.pigpenpoetry.com Foundations The day Isaac Asimov died I knew that my childhood had passed the friends in the books I'd amassed would nevermore speak. Horrified, I went to the school I'd just left the day Isaac Asimov died straight into the staffroom; bereft my teacher and I sat and cried No, physics does not t

Topic 21: Write a poem about chickens - alive chickens, dead chickens, crossing the road, laying, chicken fights, etc. Write a poem inspired by chickens. Form : any Line requirements: 8 lines or more Get involved for free at www.pigpenpoetry.com Eggs On Sundays we have eggs as our contempt for hens demands we eat the children they’re denied singing all about the sunny side the funny side is, deep within her box the hen just goes on pecking looking out across t