http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ariel701436/Here you can find the poetry that I've scattered about my Journal blog since I joined last year, all laid out in nice neat rows for your enjoyment. If you look closely, you might find a few other things as well.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ariel701436/448442I shall probably rework this at some future date, 'cos it was written in haste. Visiting Hour How cruelly swift the hour flies, in the bar dappled, dingy room! Where are all those conversations, rehearsed in Wal-Mart neon moonlit rooms in restive apartment blocks? Stilled and hushed they are in...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ariel701436/448015EMAILS We email each other- friends and I: send thoughts winging through the air, in an arcane, mysterious process, known only to a computer geek. What manner of beast is an email? This telecommunicatus computerus: species electronicus emailicus? What manner of creature is this? When I have...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ariel701436/447417Storm in the sierras. Those harbingers of primavera, almond blossoms fall like snow, each one writ by the hand of God. Stark and grey the sierras stand these, the bony ribs of earth; rearing massive, grey and sere. Among the lofty, lonely peaks newborn goats die in the rain. Heaven weeps her...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ariel701436/447209THE CHAT ROOM ADDICT With profound apologies to Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”. Lately on a midnight dreary: back all stiff and eyes all bleary, I sat pecking at my computer, fingers racing like a scooter ( you know, one of those nifty Eyetalian jobs that do 0 to 60 m.p.h in... well, eventually )...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ariel701436/446437Foreword: A bit of a cheat this, ‘cos it really belongs in my Fiction blog, I guess. Trouble is that there’s a guy called Ariel posting a story that looks as if it’s going to run longer than The Mousetrap, so I can’t get a look in. Anyway, my excuse is that it is a bit poetic … TOUGH LOVE It’s...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ariel701436/445968Okay, call me a cheat then! I know it ain’t a poem, and it takes up more than a single side of a sheet of paper, so it can’t be a vignette; but you gotta a admit it is just a bit poetic. Me? The only time I set foot down there on the costas – Spain’s Mediterranean coast, is when I have to, because...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ariel701436/445668This is one of those vignettes that I told you about; a story on one side of a sheet of A4 paper. These are a really good exercise in editing! FLOWER GIRL He was heart flutteringly handsome, and when he came into her florist shop – which was almost every day – he was very shy and seeming nervous...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ariel701436/445195Okay, call me a Philistine, see if I care! This modern poetry – well, to be fair, not all of it of course – but a hell of a lot of it: I read it, and I go “ Yer wo?”, or maybe “ Whaddya mean? ” The stuff I detest most is this almost verb-less garbage; you know what I mean … “ Blue sky, red sun,...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ariel701436/444199I mean, you buy her a new Lexus for her birthday; you floor that mugger that was after her purse; push comes to shove, you’ll even go out and fight that dragon that’s been terrorizing the ‘hood. And ( and greater love hath no man!! ) you even put up with her father’s patronising, “ Is that the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ariel701436/443433I can't really say that this new toolbar is any more poem-friendly than the old one. THAT NIGHT, ON THE BEACH There on the beach; cupped in a bowl of sand, fringed about with spikened grasses we lay, my love and I. In the deepest womb of night; in the glowing, aureate light. That night, on the...