Greenstorm's Journal

"I don't go organic often, but when I do..." by John Stammers.

I don’t ‘go organic’ often, but when I do
cash registers explode, shop assistants lurch back( Read more... )

Application to the Arts Council for a grant to write this poem Christopher Meredith

Sir/Madam
The poem (hereinafter called The Poem)
will consist of approximately 35-45 lines.
In the opening two or three lines
a startling image will be broached.
All nouns at this stage will be concrete( Read more... )

Repost:
Is/Not Margaret Atwood

Love is not a profession
genteel or otherwise

sex is not dentistry
the slick filling of aches and cavities

you are not my doctor
you are not my cure,

nobody has that
power, you are merely a fellow/traveller( Read more... )

Today and Two Thousand Years from Now Philip Levine

The job is over. We stand under the trees
waiting to be told what to do,
but the job is over.( Read more... )

When We'll Worship Jesus Amiri Baraka

We'll worship Jesus
When jesus do
Somethin
When jesus blow up
the white house
or blast nixon down
when jesus turn out congress
or bust general motors to
yard bird motors( Read more... )