Christmas Island
Released Saturday, 23rd May 2020
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Christmas Island
Christmas Island
Saturday, 23rd May 2020
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Christmas Islandhttps://mikebellpoems.com/christmas-island/
Their trams still ran [inHiroshima] - among allof their loss of 1945+/As if precise modes ofpublic transport would[still] rotate in a flawedcountry like ours/ Timehas moved for Britain'sschedulers ever since -since a bomb droppedon Christmas/ One-nil/We twitched - us kids/We saw a darkness [oflife] sat outside a bank[a shock - of imprecisetruths - of hitokage noishihi]/ There are grimshadows on our mapsof cooled off craters &green atolls/ As kids itwas a joy to ride tramsin Manchester - delaysforgiven - never forgot
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10,000 Poems
This is my daily writing ritual. It started on the 5th of November 2015. It is a 30-plus year experiment to see if writing a poem a day, my ongoing commitment, can contribute to maintaining mental skills and avoiding those growing ravages of ageing upon the brain.These poems form a narrative of my life, politically and emotionally, fact and fiction, with which I hope to find engagement with other individuals who are also just trying to get by, with, or without any concerns.My inspiration comes from daily events, connections, films, books, and real interactions – ten thousand small things – which all seem to demand bigger attention from me.I have been published in the UK & USA, although submissions often are not chased, and appearing on this site my poems are regarded as ‘published’ by editors, so make themselves excluded from the usual poetry game. But then I don’t play to those rules.Other WorkMy pre-lockdown day job found me designing weird stuff for weird people – experiential, exhibition, event and other designs in 3D.This can be found at www.freelancevisuals.co.ukDuring lockdown, I lost all that work, so I created maps of data, which continue to flourish – primarily about bands, but also plots, sports, politics and lies.This can be found at www.mikebellmaps.comJoin Podchaser to...
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