Project Description
Extracting poems from and for life
Welcome to our poems portfolio showcasing some of our poems!
On this page we gather all the posts we have on our portfolio and add some notes and further links.
Select the notes to read about different levels of understanding.
Follow the further reading links to see some favourite content on poems & poetry.
Select the poem links to dig into the poem details.
For each poem we have produced an English Haiku (say “high-koo”).
This is a type of Japanese poem that contains only 17 syllables, broken up into three lines of 5,7 & 5 syllables.
Autumn’s Shades
I wrote this poem during autumn about the sadness and beauty of my favourite season. After a sweltering mad summer, [...]
The Water
I wrote this poem thinking about our lifelong friend - water. I thought about a river having emotions and feelings about [...]
The Picnic
I wrote this poem wondering about what was the earth doing below our feet. I thought about the earth as [...]
Where Would We Be
Does anyone want to know what makes them as they are? Anyone curious about how they got this far? Do you need you to think about what makes you the person you have become? [...]
Away Bones
Does anyone want to know what to think about our next stage of evolution? Anyone curious about how to get further than the material life? Do you need you to hear the tale of [...]
If I Could Die Here
Does anyone want to know why I would want to ask if I could die here? Anyone curious about how to get to this state of being? Do you need you to hear the [...]
Hard holiday
Does anyone want to know what a "hard" holiday is? Anyone curious about how to get one or what it could even be? Do you need you to hear the tale of a country [...]
On the feeling of bliss
Anyone want to know what bliss is? Anyone curious about how to get it or when it happens? Finding perfect happiness or bliss sometimes seems impossible. In reality though, so as not to be disappointed, [...]
On The End Of Our Time
Anyone wanting to follow the continual ritual of wanting more? Anyone also wanting to find out when it will be enough to satisfy us?. Want a tale of us all waiting for the final [...]
On One Day at a Time
Anyone wanting verse to show how we can be tricked by time and are given a slice of it per day?. Or a poem for documenting the slipping away of the future? Or if [...]
On a Day of rains
Anyone want to watch the land through the rain on a cold hill?. Or read a poem for the isolation and viewing of distant landscape?. Do you need to understand our valleys and rains will [...]
On hearing the rock man
Anyone want to see the viewpoint of a slow-moving, extremely time based evolutionary creature who's life is long enough to witness aeons of history?. Or read a poem for the realisation, that some things take [...]
On my hollow cries
Anyone want verse to assure them that unrequited love is common and real?. Or a poem for the love of love and its uncertainty?. Do you need to tell yourself that love could be inches [...]
On my absolutely lowest last tone in summer
Anyone want verse to teach them how free we are today being able to keep our lives where we want?. Or a poem for love and the dragging away of you for some mandatory [...]
On the many claims on our environment
Anyone wanting verse to let them gently know that they are not so free in the world? Or that so many creatures and events have claims on their being and time?. Or a poem [...]
On being stuck to the ground
Anyone want verse to teach them that a boring, dull day can be the normal?. Or a poem for waiting in hope and waiting for something to happen?. Do you need to know that [...]
On waiting to come another lonely step
Anyone want verse to keep them going step by step, knowing its all happened before?. Or a poem for the love of companionship and comforting knowledge of certainty?. Do you need to crave certainty [...]
On life’s journey and wanderings
Anyone want verse to give them the end to end message?. Or a poem for the missing times as we journey though life?. Do you need to slow down and realise that this is [...]
- Poetry isn’t usually a piece of literature we randomly write down.
- Poetry is an outlet to articulate our ideas or experiences to others as we wished we could voice to ourselves every time we speak.
- Poetry is emotional, creative and free-floating.
- Poetry should be what you’d expect a best friend to be.
- A poem, in its entirety, is a way we can express our views on people, the earth, life, or emotions.
- Write poems about life, poems about love, poems about dreams, about the future, the present, the past.
- Start to write poetry as an act of self-expression and take pride in your words.
- If you can accomplish poetry then some readers may be absorbed by your words and textual illustrations.
- Write poetry when you want to articulate something that cannot be easily communicated in precise and logical forms.
- Writing poetry is a good companion—peaceful and funny, intelligent and sensitive, humorous and kind, honest and good company for anyone.
- Transferring or relieving emotion from yourself to paper for a reader is no easy task, but infinitely rewarding.
- There is something deeply personal connected to weaving words, metaphors, patterns and imagery to provide some in-articulate sense of something.
- That’s the loveliness and timelessness of poetry.
- Some poems can offer self-analysis thoughts and can help with self-emotions and self-facing mechanisms.
- One thing that can turn a good poem into a great poem is by adding and/or removing details.
- Learn to love the details and keep adding, the more added the more detached but bottomless the poem will get.
- Removing some pieces will always reveal the skeleton of the poem.
- Learn that, by time and thinking away a dream, that writing our poems can make minutes turn to hours and the reverse.
- Consider a poem for every night of the year – this includes repeating ones or replacing names/places and times.
- Sometimes crazy dreams and thoughts make excellent poems as these thoughts are usually between reality and imagination.
- Pour your thoughts out as if they were almost leaking onto paper through your fingers.
- Find out that words beget each other and that one thing in your mind that triggers other things accidentally or otherwise.
- Realise that you didn’t know why or how you have come to this point and from what direction; but should you care?.
- Decide not to reason why you are doing poetry, only that something is urging and squeezing the text and words out of you like they were always there.
- Follow your verbal subconscious, and write sometimes without apparent purpose, enjoying the present moment and the pattern of your words.
- Realise that most people want to achieve and happiness in their lives and this is not a very easy task.
- Allowing poetry into your life to perhaps guide or root out happiness, can help.
- View your poems as distant reflections or pools and move through the poem with a distant view.
- Externalise all your final thoughts on your topic and then shut the poem down, perhaps with a question or floating problem.
- See also the fantastic online tips in our Recommendations list
Poems Portfolio
Extracting poems from and for life Welcome to our poems portfolio showcasing some of our poems! On this page we gather all the posts we have on our portfolio and add some notes and further links. Select the notes to read about different levels of understanding. Follow the further reading links to see some favourite content on poems & poetry. Select the poem links to dig into the poem details. For each poem we have produced an English Haiku (say "high-koo"). This is a type of Japanese poem that contains only 17 syllables, broken up into three lines of 5,7 & 5 syllables. Application [...]
Sounds Portfolio
Mixing sounds with space in time Welcome to our sounds portfolio showcasing some of our sounds - i.e. lo-fi music! On this page we gather all the posts we have on our portfolio and add some notes and further links. Select the notes to read about different levels of understanding. Follow the further reading links to see some favourite content on sounds & music. Select the sound links to dig into the sound details. Application Ever since you can remember, music and sounds may have been a huge part of your life, substituting [...]
Worlds Portfolio
Making brave new worlds Welcome to our worlds portfolio showcasing some of our worlds - i.e. videos, unity games, fantasy maps and cartoons ! On this page we gather all the posts we have on our portfolio and add some notes and further links. Select the notes to read about different levels of understanding. Follow the further reading links to see some favourite content on worlds and world building/animation. Select the world links to dig into the world details. Application Recognise that we all live in one world, we hear people cry and [...]
Correspondence Portfolio
Send interesting "postcards to us" We have a correspondence portfolio to showcase some of our stories and articles as fictional correspondence. This is a landing page to talk about correspondence in general and then link the posts. Select the notes to read about our levels of understanding. Follow the further reading links to see some favourite content on correspondence. Application All correspondence tells a story, usually to a specific person or group of people. Use them to illustrate your words to communicate from a third person perspective. Your correspondence may fill the gaps [...]