not a whiteboard
nor a blackboard
but a greenboard:
today you print unfiltered
50 ways to publish
but you forgot
to publicise
yourself
poem Rachel McAlpine cc by 2.0, photo (c) Miraz Jordan
Daily Prompt “Inscrutable”
Month: January 2018
Advanced self-defence: infallible strategy
Advanced self-defence
If a zombie comes up the toilet
you can whisk off and fight it,
because you know the steps.
Put some Barbie dolls in a row
because zombies hate Barbie dolls.
They’re afraid they’ll chomp them.
You can also shine a light at zombies.
It injects them
and they die.
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Photo by RomitaGirl67 CC BY 2.0.
Horizon
while you live
be taut
be canvas
while you die
be muslin
be light
let the wind
blow through
you can never be lonely now
you cannot lose
what you have shared
and spread
you skim the horizon
you melt into moonlight
you make the sky go bright
poem and photo by rachel mcalpine, daily prompt “horizon”, the Daily Post
Don’t blink
that tiny child’s
tremendous eyes
she looks and thinks
but will she blink?
pink clouds puff
towards the brink
they are clouds
but they are pink
poem and pic by rachel mcalpine cc by 2.0
Daily Prompt https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/blink/
Shop window shock
who’s that hunched
old lady
stout and shuffly?
lift your head
and see me, lady,
as I am
lift your head
and like me
as I am
poem by rachel mcalpine cc by 2.0, response to WP daily prompt
Occupy
At night, a giant
stretched and sketched
pointed and colonial
an X, a wave across the bed.
Awake, I pleat my civic limbs
to meditate
now vertical, a particle
on a pillow, an origami cat.
Six could fit into this space
and do
outside this cave of privilege
and peace.
poem and pic by rachel mcalpine cc by 2.0
The fog
she loves her agile mind
and dreads the fog
fervently she favours
blueberries and kefir
and push-ups and planks
and tiny meals
she has a project
and a thousand friends
she dreads the fog
poem and pic by rachel mcalpine, cc by 2.0, Daily Post one-word prompt: Agile
Loophole
nothing but juice
in an elegant sock
we loop and plod towards
a transformation
poem and pic by rachel mcalpine, cc by 2.0
Daily prompt: Loophole
Theft
I dedicate myself to theft
stealing from conversation
serving it up without sauce
I’ll get more curious, retentive,
more listeny, more learny
more thought-full
I can’t think all the thoughts there are
but I can put them
into pixels
poem and pic by rachel mcalpine cc by 2.0
Thirteen waves: xiii.
xiii.
I should be out the porthole,
surfing violet mohawks,
bursting the orange horizon.
But in this Fokker Friendship
we are dozing
over the disc of dusk towards
the cardboard box
you say is my home too
for a while
if I like.
(One eye juicing the sunset.
One eye tasselling
wigs of pingao.)
Poem and reading by Rachel McAlpine CC BY 2.0, photo by Phil Capper CC BY 2.0
Poems in the wild—Rachel McAlpine 